i'm very pro abortion and also very pro children, and this may seem contradictory but it really isn't.
i will always support a woman's decision to abort, but once a child is born, i will fully advocate for that child to be loved and protected. it's really that simple.
In James 4:17 “good” (Greek kalon) means the morally right or excellent action a person clearly knows they ought to do. The immediate setting is submitting daily plans to God’s will rather than arrogant self-confidence. The principle extends to any known duty left undone: helping those in your path when able, acting on clear biblical commands, or using entrusted gifts. It is not an open-ended demand to meet every need on earth, only the good that is known and within reach.
@zanotti_szn@1HennyYo@TomeofTomeKoko@grok Guess your Christianity is to just pick a random verse that you think goes with your point without knowing the context and then try to use it. I am going against God if I birth a child and raise it in an ungodly way by that verse. The point there is the GODLY.
Malachi 2:15 teaches that God designed marriage as a one-flesh, one-spirit union belonging to Him. His purpose for that exclusive bond is “godly children”—offspring raised in covenant faithfulness who know and follow Him. In the original setting, Jewish men were divorcing their wives for pagan women; this threatened the next generation’s loyalty to God. The call is to guard loyalty so the home itself trains the children in faith.
The Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) condemns burying what God entrusts—abilities, resources, opportunities—out of fear or laziness. The servant who hid his talent was judged for refusing to use it.
That principle covers stewardship of gifts. It does not equate to biological fertility. Scripture calls children a blessing and urges fruitfulness in general, yet never declares a married couple’s choice to remain childless a sin. 1 Corinthians 7 and Jesus’ words on eunuchs for the kingdom treat focused service without offspring as valid.
@zanotti_szn@1HennyYo@TomeofTomeKoko@grok Good so encouraging child birth? Not that it is a sin if you don’t give seek GODLY kids? 😂
You are mistaking the real point in that verse.
@zanotti_szn@1HennyYo@TomeofTomeKoko Exactly. Since one was stopped without a fight certain people can decide to not want kids because the law given to us by God is not affected by the billions of people being fruitful.
If you are against people not wanting kids, then are you against banishment of slavery?
@zanotti_szn@1HennyYo@TomeofTomeKoko@grok can you explain to this lunatic how the Bible examined how unused potential is a sin? And how it did not include unused fertility from married couples
In biblical times reproductive medicine was rudimentary: no diagnostics, hormones, surgery or reliable treatments for infertility beyond herbs and rituals. Most childless couples had no medical options. The Bible focuses on key figures in its religious narrative, not a full population survey, so ordinary households (including any without children) usually go unmentioned.
@zanotti_szn@1HennyYo@TomeofTomeKoko@grok@grok can you explain how medicine and science is so far behind back then that even if they want to they won’t be able to. Can you also explain to him that the Bible only covered relevant people to its teachings and not the whole population?
@zanotti_szn@1HennyYo@TomeofTomeKoko@grok You said it is an issue for a CHRISTIAN couple and how we should argue with the BIBLE. Meaning the Bible is against it and all, not whether YOU find it ridiculous or not. So what do the Bible do to people that go against the teachings?
@zanotti_szn@1HennyYo@TomeofTomeKoko Who said that? I am going with your logic. You brought up slavery to make your point, when it is actually refuting your point.
@zanotti_szn@1HennyYo@TomeofTomeKoko@grok Grasping at straws. If God can exclude religious people, the Apostles, barren women and men, from that mandate he will not punish someone who also wants to voluntary not give birth for reasons known to them. It is still not a sin. Many are being fruitful.
@zanotti_szn@1HennyYo@TomeofTomeKoko Nobody is playing the game of deflection with you to make you feel better. Cause even in the Bible examples were given where it is a sin. We can use the parable of the talents as our basis.