The command to "be fruitful and multiply" in today's culture

A Video Interview With Nancy Campbell

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[imthemandawg]

1 Timothy 2

15But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

The command to be fruitful and multiply is also a New Testament command.

People who think G-D is stupid because they don't understand his ways will be greatly embarrassed when they see him still sitting on the his throne ruling his Kingdom forever,while others will mourning from a far with intense jealously .

[zearro53]

As the God of the Bible makes mistakes and has to be reminded of the foolishness of his proposed actions, I do not think we need to assume the bible is infallible. Take Exodus 32:7-14 where Moses had to remind God that he had made a promise to make the Israelites as numerous as the stars in the skies and also that it would give the wrong impression to the Egyptians if he took them out of Egypt just to destroy them. As soon as Moses died there was no one left to give God some good advice.

[IferHyfr]

Christians using contraception are not aligning with the devil! Be realistic - over population IS real and historically the major cause for downfall of civilisations (through deforestation, soil salinity, water pollution etc) (read "Collapse" by J Diamond) with survivors moving to new places with forrests & fertile land - where will that be following global overpopulation? There's 5 acres per person? (is that arable land?) - How much will that be in 2 generation if everyone has a dozen children?

[AlwaysRightIam]

There is no over population the world is not over populated it is just being poorly run. There is enough land mass that every person alive could have more than five acres of land each.

[1973AAMC]

Being fruitful and multiplying can become a god within itself. I cannot help but notice that the apostles didn't mention the command when they were teaching the new church in the book of Acts. Surely if it was really important in the new covenant it would have been reiterated. What is stressed?  The spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This apostle lead emphasis on the gospel is sadly lacking in our churches today, including amongst those who put a great emphasis on procreation

[Adam6275]

There is a reason why feminism has never worked in 5,000 years or more or in any society. It isn't new. Nothing new under the sun. It is just the society collapses because women want the government to take care of them and the catch-22 the government doesn't have the money to take care of them. The system can work at best for maybe 1 generation or at most 2 but sooner or later it will collapse and another culture will take over where the women want children.

[Adam6275]

No culture has ever survived with a birth rate of 1.9 or less as no economic system can survive when you don't have enough young people and there are more older people then younger people. In fact governments are going to go bankrupt unless they bring in immigrants from other cultures. Which Europe is going to become Muslim and America will become Spanish or Muslim. It is ironic that people today are overly reliant on the government that will be bankrupt because they don't follow "be fruitful"

[MaskedLosah]

Yeah - seven billion people on this planet, but clearly *under*population is a pressing problem.

[BansheeSiren]

If people would just treat each other decently instead of being violent racists no group of people would need to breed soldiers for the next holy war.

Peace!

[shula41]

what about abused children who have no home. take care of those first and then bring more babies here cos they need a safe home too.