06-25-2010, 12:30 PM
(06-24-2010 08:21 PM)Lynne Wrote: [ -> ]As to not having kids, they just didn't come along for me. God blessed me in so many other ways and I'm 90% at peace with it, more or less, depending on the day.
As I say, it's not God's will for everyone. Marriage isn't even God's will for everyone: 1 Cor. 7: 1, 7 makes that clear. Paul speaks of the "gift" of remaining single. I've known many single Christians, but only one who, in my opinion, had that gift: he was the dear brother who patiently led me to the KJB, and he was a Ruckmanite. But, so far as I could tell, he had no sexual interests whatsoever, unless on a purely aesthetic level. He felt no compulsion to marry or even date - - - and, at the time, he was in his mid to late 20s, when the strain's pretty great! But I think he had been given that gift.
There are lifelong bachelors (of either sex) who are not Sodomites. They're simply not very sexual. It's only our wicked, sex-crazed society that smirks at them.
Quote:So good to read what you wrote about generational sin. I've been thinking about this for a long time. Thanks for your good guidance (as always!)
Well, sister, when you study spiritual warfare, you realize that "generational curses" and such are sheer moonshine. The only people who fixate on them are Charismatics, who wouldn't know sound doctrine if it crept into bed with them, and Hollywood, which loves movies about ghosts and demons haunting generation after generation. Hogwash.
Does anyone think that when an (as yet) innocent baby is born, it carries a demon or a curse? To say so is to slander God Almighty. He looks after those babies. Yes, He may allow chemical or inherited problems (like with crack babies), but those are the results of human sin, and it has nothing to do with spiritual forces. It has to do with little bodies that were addicted to certain substances because they partook of their mother's bloodstream.
Quote:I had a pastor who often said when we're born again, we get the DNA of God. I think, but I'm not sure, he was speaking metaphorically. Would you say that's a good way to think about it?
I would say it's good preaching, but nonsensical doctrine. But sometimes that's okay. As Ruckman says, "Good doctrine doesn't always make good preaching, and good preaching isn't always good doctrine." I can use Rev. 3:20 in an evangelistic presentation, but doctrinally, it's not aimed at my hearers; it's aimed at the historical church of the Laodiceans. But spiritually, it applies to anybody.
We do, of course, inherit Adam's sin; that's one "generational curse" that none of us escapes. If we have a man's blood coursing through our veins, we're sinners. That's why the Virgin Birth is so important. If Jesus was Joseph's son, He was as sinful as you and I.