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Monday, January 02, 2012
Quiverfulls & A Daft Culture War
The Quiverfull Movement people have created a false law which mandates as many pregnancies as possible = "God's will." The reality is that there is no such law. The Old Testament teaches mandatory values regarding human beings, children, and family, which are different from laws. It is God's will that we highly value people (because we are made in God's image). All the Old Testament laws on social relationships build on the foundation of that value. We are to highly value marriage and family, because of God's original mandate to Adam and Eve. If we respect God as Creator, and bow to Moses' God-given authority as His prophet, then we accept heterosexual, monogamous marriage as the lone standard. But marriage sometimes ends legitimately because of immorality and other causes, and singleness can also be God's gift to a Christian in certain cases, according to the apostle Paul. We should value children, because they are a blessing given by God. If these values rule over our thoughts and hearts, then we are in the place God wants us to be. But there is no divine law that commands Christians to have as many children as we can. And we certainly shouldn't reproduce as a personnel-tactic in a daft Theonomic culture-war! In the absence of any commandment to have a certain number of children, God has delegated to us the decision as to how many to have.
Labels:
Family Life,
Marriage
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