Is a Christian couple free to take steps to avoid ever having any children? The issue here is one of motive: Wrong motives for being childless: 1. The world is over-crowded. 2. The world is too corrupt. 3. “We don't like kids!” 4. “We want the money and time to spend on ourselves.” Right motives for being childless: 1. If there is good reason to believe the parents would pass on a genetically fatal disease. 2. If you are physically able to have kids but physically unable to raise and nurture them. 3. If children would impede a clear call to ministry (missionaries). 4. If you are financially unable to provide for them (but this is only legitimate for delaying the bearing of children, not for not having any at all, ever).

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains		Cookie	16	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Butter
1	c	Light brown sugar
1		Egg
3/4	c	Flour
1	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla
1/2	c	Chopped nuts

INSTRUCTIONS

From: "Marilyn J. Barney" <mbarney@halcyon.com>
Date: 16 Nov 1994 10:21:33 -0500
Melt butter, stir in sugar and cool. Add egg. Beat. Add remaining
ingredients. Spread in greased 8-inch square pan. Bake at 350 deg. F. for
30    minutes.
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“God is a know-all”

But it should also be said that Scripture does not ask us to believe in a contradiction. A contradiction would be “There is one God and there is not one God,” or “God is three persons and God is not three persons,” or even (which is similar to the previous statement) “God is three persons and God is one person.” But to say that “God is three persons and there is one God” is not a contradiction. It is something we do not understand, and it is therefore a mystery or a paradox, but that should not trouble us as long as the different aspects of the mystery are clearly taught by Scripture, for as long as we are finite creatures and not omniscient deity, there will always (for all eternity) be things that we do not fully understand.

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