In their book So Much More, Elizabeth and Anna Sophia Botkin boldly proclaim the truth on many prevalent subjects, but I wanted to quote from their book a comment on having children. This was an answer to the common deception that “children are a big expense and a big inconvenience if they are born at the wrong time”.
“Even Christians [men] have been taken captive by the idea that children are a curse and that debt is a blessing when the opposite is true. So dads aggressively limit the blessings of God (babies), especially during the first years of aggressive, selfish consumerism that makes for the “solid” evangelical marriage. Incalculable numbers of daughters and sons have been killed by secretive evangelical abortions and abortifacient birth control practices. Evangelicals have redefined marriage along worldly lines. Remember that good providers provide what God counts as blessings, not what the world insists are entitlements. Believe God when he says children are a blessing and that he is a faithful provider. Never cut off the offspring God calls holy–bring your daughters up with the aspiration that marriage can advance the Kingdom of God and that children are of measureless worth to God and all fathers.” (Emphasis mine.)
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Your blogs are bold, and I have to admit, sometimes they make me mad. However, I admire your determination to speak the truth…there aren’t enough people willing to do that.
Thank you, anonymous. It made me mad, too, when I was first introduced to some of the truths I now embrace so fervently.
They are sanctified when at least one parent is Christian. They are people waiting to happen…More about the New World Order coming in–as long as we think we NEED to plan the timing of bearing children and limit the number of children we have, we are ready for the N.W.O. to tell US when we can have children, how many we can have, and even if we can or should…!! I love all of my children and wish the best for them. If they don’t have all the comforts of life that we think everyone should, it really does not matter. Mostly, they don’t even notice!