Appearance of inconsistency

[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by JTULLOCK

I have never known anyone in the Apostolic faith that way but there is always the exception.

I know lots of them.I have only heard one UPC preacher though preach
against birth control but not from the pulpit.He taught it in classes.
Most are other orgs or Independant.

[Pragmatist]

I know a pastor that started teaching that natural family planning was the only form of birth control that should be used. Within the next year, numerous babies were born at that church, and the teaching fell by the wayside.

Originally Posted by Sherri

My tubes were tied after Zac was born. My doctor told me I couldn't have any more kids. I probably would have had them tied anyway. Providing for two has been a stretch at times in our lives. Financially, things are easier now, but I still feel fulfilled as a mom with two kids. If people want to have 12, I think that's fine, but I don't think it was for us.

Took the man to the vet many, many moons ago...Alot cheaper by the way....

[ForeverBlessed]

Originally Posted by OP_Carl

Our movement has them, but you are correct that they are rare.

Pastor Charles Benninghoff of Bloomington, Indiana, has six children

The Gordon sisters, a singing group of six sisters from Colorado, have two brothers. That means there must be a Brother & Sister Gordon somewhere who had at least eight.

I have met in passing two Apostolic families that had large families. I didn't get a count, but something in the order of seven for one of them, and perhaps eleven for the other. The family with eleven was a Foster home that had adopted some of their Foster kids.

Six families in my church have five children. One family has seven. Five more families have four.

I never really considered the Benninghoff's to have a lot of kids.. it wasn't unusual to have a lot of kids then.. Our family is good friends with their family.... there are 5 of us.

My husband was from a family of 7 kids with the youngest being 30 now.. and his aunt, a family in the church I grew up with had 7 kids... youngest is now 37. I guess some people just like big families.

I love kids and had three kids the first three years of my marriage.. would have continued having them and refused to have my tubes tied. However, I struggled through 3 C-sections and it probably wouldn't have been a good idea to have more. When my youngest was about 18 months old, I had an illness that caused me to be sterile. God's way of stopping the kids before I died I guess. lol Considering my past circumstances... it was God's blessing that came from that illness.

[mfblume]

There is faith, foolishness and presumption. Some things are truly stood upon as a form of genuine faith in God's word. Other things are plain nutty, such as dying of cancer with no healing occurring and refusing to get medical help. But other things are presumption, such as birth control being wrong.

[Scott Hutchinson]

The doctor told my wife physically it would be unhealthy for her have any more children ,she had probelms with the last one ,she is a Holy woman of God ,if she isn't saved I doubt anybody would make it.
She lives the life.
She has her tubes tied.

[originalsecretplace]

I think it's a family decision. We decided to have 2 children and that was it.

As far as how to stop having more chilgren... my husband and I looked at the different methods and decided that he should get the big V. To my husband, it looked like a women bearing that burden of BC whether tubes tied or the pill was not as safe as he would like and was more invasive than the man's side. I had no medical reasons for having my tubes tied, etc.

He said he was responsible for the family and it was his burden to bear.

[OP_Carl]

Originally Posted by mfblume

There is faith, foolishness and presumption. . . . But other things are presumption, such as birth control being wrong.

There is also naivete, in this case caused by conservative squeamishness and leftist cultural inundation and conditioning. "Everybody else is doing it, it's taught in school, and I've never heard my preacher say anything about it."

Originally Posted by originalsecretplace

I think it's a family decision. We decided to have 2 children and that was it.

As far as how to stop having more chilgren... my husband and I looked at the different methods and decided that he should get the big V. To my husband, it looked like a women bearing that burden of BC whether tubes tied or the pill was not as safe as he would like and was more invasive than the man's side. I had no medical reasons for having my tubes tied, etc.

He said he was responsible for the family and it was his burden to bear.

It's a blessing to be married to a man who'll stand up and take responsibility and get a vasectomies ! After there babies and the lost of a fourth son (stillborn), my husband said I went through enough, it was the least he could do, nor did he want me in such physical pain .

[Scott Hutchinson]

I guess we could pray that God would take our biological urges away.