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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 07:48:37 EDT
From:         MKLINE%VDH.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Question Re:abortion

Subject: Question Re:abortion


Lonnie Schubert ------------------------------------------------------->
                  In fact its so bad, that I want 10 or so more. ;-)
(Actually, we intend to have 3 or 4 more.  And just to be sure, we
consider the duties and responsibilities of child raising a JOY!)

MAKS> Actually, at the Bill Gothard seminar, they went into a couple
      of items here. "My ways are not your ways and My thoughts are
      higher than your thoughts." and "Children are a blessing of the
      Lord."

      Are they a blessing, or are they not? I'm not intending to go
      into this, but just think about it. Are you willing to cut off
      God's blessing in order to improve "the duties and
      responsibilities of child raising"? Not doing any finger pointing
      at you, Lonnie, or anyone else, but is the family with more
      children "worse off" than those with 2-3?

      Yes, they have less money per person, but for those of you that
      came from large families, they said that the older children helped
      to care for the family and the mother actually had more time on
      her hands. They even gave examples of the mother and older
      children managing an "in home" business to bring in extra money.
      Talk about cheap labor, huh? I was the oldest in my family with
      one brother and one sister under me. Can't say much about "large"
      families. What was it like for those of you with larger families?
      Was it really what you might call "bad"?

      When Kerry said abortion was taking God's plan into your own
      hands, she hit the nail on the head. If children *ARE* a blessing,
      abortion, any abortion, is a "No thank you, I don't want
      blessed." No where in my Bible can I find a condition on this
      blessing that says how much you must make in order to have
      one of these blessings. I'm 41 and Linda is 43 and wants another
      child. I don't, but this has caused me to seek God on this and
      not to presume I know His ways better than He does. I'm not
      planning on having a child, at this point, maybe ever, but if
      anything does happen, you'll be the first to know. We use
      birth control, but it's not 100%(foam).

      They talked about vasectomies are being found to not be so safe
      as they thought. All that semen going into the body all the time
      might be breaking down the man's immune system. (Sound familiar?)
      This they just skimmed over... again saying "God's ways are not
      our ways..."

      The general flow of everything presented was, "See what God's
      word says and go with that. If not addressed, was it presented
      in some other way? Did a parable 'sort of' address the subject?
      If so, then use that." I've got so much to study yet as I am
      learning, but they pretty much say the Word of God addresses
      everything that happens in our life, maybe not directly, but
      it's good, it's sound, and God's word is useable. Whew. Amen!
      Like I said, it was quite the seminar. They are supposed to
      be in England and Australia as well as quite a few places in
      the US.

In His Love,

  Michael A. Kline, Sr. SSE
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