Do intentionally childless people violate this commandment?
Give it to me straight.
Be Fruitful and Multiply
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Kurieuo
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Re: Be Fruitful and Multiply
Wasn't that given to Adam and Eve? 
Also, WWJD? 
Also, WWJD? "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:13)
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Re: Be Fruitful and Multiply
What if your swimmers can't get the job done?
Anyway, I've done my contribution to world population - two is aplenty.
But there's a guy at church who is probably about 40 - he and his wife have produced five kids. I don't know of anyone else my age or younger who has more than three - DO YOU GUYS know of anyone with five or more? When I was a kid, three children was the norm, and four wasn't uncommon. My parents had five (which is insane!).
Anyway, I've done my contribution to world population - two is aplenty.
But there's a guy at church who is probably about 40 - he and his wife have produced five kids. I don't know of anyone else my age or younger who has more than three - DO YOU GUYS know of anyone with five or more? When I was a kid, three children was the norm, and four wasn't uncommon. My parents had five (which is insane!).
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Kurieuo
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Re: Be Fruitful and Multiply
My wife tells me she looks after five kids, but we've only had four so I don't know what she's on about.
"Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:13)
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Re: Be Fruitful and Multiply
Anyway, looks like white people haven't been doing their contribution - maybe God's allotted time for palefaces is about done?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/w ... ation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/w ... ation.html
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Re: Be Fruitful and Multiply
It's nice when a woman knows her place.
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
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Re: Be Fruitful and Multiply
My wife comes from a catholic family.
She's the youngest of 6.
And her dad had 10 siblings.
She's the youngest of 6.
And her dad had 10 siblings.
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
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Re: Be Fruitful and Multiply
Catholic birth control of the past: Have so many hungry kids at the table that, when supper's meager portions are finally served, occasionally one of the smaller ones gets eaten in the ensuing feeding frenzy!Rick: My wife comes from a catholic family.
She's the youngest of 6.
And her dad had 10 siblings.
My Catholic FIL was raised in just such a family. First time I met him, we went to a very nice tablecloth-type restaurant. The server plopped down his meal and by the time everyone was served, FIL's plate was empty. I was in shock at how anyone could eat so fast. I think his family invented that phrase, "He who hesitates is lost!"
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Re: Be Fruitful and Multiply
But that’s from the OT not NT meaning we don’t have to follow it. I mean not everyone can have children due to many reason. We aren’t saved by works but by Jesus