Quotes- Birth Control
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“We mourn the death forty-three millions babies who have been aborted since Roe v. Wade. We cry out to God for this to be reversed. However, I do not think that we will see a victory in stopping abortion until God's people repent over their attitude toward children. While we carry this negative attitude toward "life" and toward receiving children from God, we will see no change. It is time for us to awake out of our sleep and realize whose kingdom we are following. It is time for us to see "life" the way God sees it. It is time for us to repent.
Contraception was not entertained by the Christian church—Protestant or Catholic—until as late as 1930. Until this time, it was considered by church theologians to be the "murder of future unborn children." But slowly, the campaigning of Margaret Sanger and her cohorts began to infiltrate the church.”
-Nancy Cambell from Be Fruitful & Multiply
“Without question, the Church today does not love children”
-Rick and Jan Hess in the book A Full Quiver
“Many people today, however, are not just thinking about the “problem” of children. They’re employing defensive tactics. That’s why family size is decreasing. That’s why couples postpone having childrern-or the child-until they’re “ready”. That’s why birth control is such an accepted part of the culture of industrialised nations and why abortion and infantcide are rapidly attaining equal tolerance, contributing to the suicidal depopulation trends of many nations. That’s why people-including Christians-have allowed the state to usurp normal functions of family nurturing, resulting in growing alienation between generations, from cradle to grave.”
-Max Heine in the book Children: Blessing or Burden?
“Today’s Christian family, in fact, has the unusual opportunity to be a beacon to a selfish and literally perishing generation merely by the way it values children. The world says children are an intrusion. The redeemed family puts out the welcome mat. The world looks to daycare, schools, peer groups, and any other surrogate parent institutions to shoulder the burden of children’s training. The redeemed family takes primary responsibility for raising and presents them to the world as God’s promised blessings come true.”
-Max Heine in the book Children: Blessing or Burden?
“The Bible abounds with examples of people of diverse economic backgrounds who were considered blessed to have many children. There appears to be no relationship whatsoever between the economic status of a family and the mandate to bring forth children. Rich and poor alike are to have many children for the glory of God and to recognize that the same God who gives life is also able to provide for the life He brings into the world. In fact, in the biblical model, large numbers of children not only increase the spiritual blessing of the family, but potentially increase the financial strength of the family as well, as parents and children join in unison to contribute to the economy of the household.
In contrast with our modern society which promotes barrenness, population control, and abortion, the Bible consistently associates the inability to conceive with sorrow, a decrease in a nations population with judgment, and the careless and harmful treatment of babies with paganism and witchcraft.”
-Doug Phillips from the forward to Be Fruitful and Multiply byNancy Cambell
The great tragedy of our day is that the Church has been swept up in the birth control ethic, with its selfish quest for convenience, comfort, and the self-deceiving vision of the individual's control over his own destiny. The fact is that we have lost our love for children and our vision to be fruitful, multiply, and have dominion over the earth. The results have been devastating.
In fact, many Christians are unaware that they are not only engaging in an unbiblical practice of preventing "blessings," but that some of the very practices they embrace have abortifacient consequences. How sad to think that someday we will get to Heaven and learn of the untold millions of children that were inadvertently aborted by their Christian parents—all because of lack of faith and ignorance. "My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge."
-Doug Phillips from the forward to Be Fruitful and Multiply byNancy Cambell
Nothing short of a fundamental switch in paradigms will do. We must transform our thinking and our lives such that we, of all people, communicate through our choices, our words, and our families that we love children and view them as God's chosen tool for building the Church and populating the world with future warriors who will dedicate their lives to keep covenant with God and thrash the works of the Devil. We must crave a godly seed. We must actively seek to bring forth legions of children for the glory of God. We must be willing to bless future mothers with the very words given to Rebekah: "May you be the mother of thousands of millions, and may your seed possess the gate."
-Doug Phillips from the forward toBe Fruitful and Multiply byNancy Cambell