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survey sez! Reader's responses to The Big Question. October
8, 2007 The Question: A reader asks: In today’s world, is a newly married couple required to have as many children as God/biology/laws of physics will allow? Is it right to decide to not have kids?”
The Answer: “If we had as many kids as our bodies would allow, we would be living in poverty.”
The Answer: “I think God gives me the intelligence to know that I can't afford 10 children!”
The Answer: “I believe it depends upon the will of God for each specific couple. Philippians 2:13 says: ‘For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.’ Some couples do not feel led of God to have children themselves. Also some get married at a later age in their late 20's or early 30's or later and don't feel led to start a family at that age, even though they may have if they had gotten married younger.”
The Answer: “Honestly I am trusting God in all areas of life. Not just the ones I feel like trusting Him. You need to pray and see what God wants of you. I am called to be a mom, on #5, but that is what God wants of me. Talk to Him and He will direct thy path.”
The Answer: “Yes!”
The Answer: “I'm not sure that physics has much to do with it, but I don't think we're bound under the ‘replenish the earth’ order.”
The Answer: “I don't think it has anything to do with right or wrong! It’s just a personal preference.”
The Answer: “LOL! That is funny! As many as God allows.. .That is up to you. He made us in the beginning people of choice! --Mother of one.”
The Answer: “We have the knowledge to prevent having too many kids. We also know the limited resources on the Earth. Shouldn't we conserve the resources we have been given?”
The Answer: “The Bible says something along the lines of ‘Blessed is the man whose quiver is full,’ speaking about children. Abraham had 12 children; two of his heart and ten of his flesh. I firmly believe that, sometimes, a man's quiver can be just as full without children, as it is with 12. My husband married into a quiver of two children, and we didn't plan to have more - our quiver was full with two! Nine years later...surprise! Now our quiver is full with three. God will direct you and your husband on how large your family should be if you'll let Him.”
The Answer: “God only told people to reproduce when the earth's population was dramatically reduced. Nothing says you have to keep cranking them out like rabbits now, and given issues with over population that we will be facing, it’s just stupid. No one has the right to tell me as a woman that I must use my body in this manner.”
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