AHHH! This anti-children agenda is terrible- people are wishing their relatives would die off to save us from overcrowding! I once heard that Texas could fit every human on earth within its borders and the population density would be that of New York City, now obviously no one is going to live in Antartica, but there's still PLENTY of room...
Also, I didn't know about the tax right off being that good, that's exciting news- all the more reason to expand the Kingdom! My thought is this, concerning the men, where has the desire gone to get a wife, have a dozen kids and see a lineage follow you to Glory?! There is nothing more that I want than to have 100 decendants all on a campground as I wheel myself up on a wheel chair (when I'm in my late 90s or so), take the mike and bless the food that my half dozen sons barbequed! If the people of GOD would have, say 7-12 kids each, and each of those kids got married and had 7-12, just in children, their spouses and kids within 2 generations there'd be over a hundred people, and if you raise them right... and they win souls.... and those souls have big families... WE COULD TAKE OVER THE WORLD! (Now I'm sounding like a post millenialist,
)
But come on, sure it's a lot of work, but the people of GOD can do it. Westerners are going to be outnumbered by the Muslims soon if we don't!
Also, talking about vasectomies is GROSS, and getting one has GOT TO BE WRONG! I know it's not in the Book per say, but if they wrote about such a thing, the people of that day probably wouldn't have believed it (same as if they wrote something like, "Don't go to movie theaters" or something like that). Actually the Law is fairly clear in not messing with our reproductive systems that GOD gave us. Along with being fruitful, there are commands AGAINST allowing certain kinds of men to hold priesthood if they had gotten
injured in some way.
I just don't get it. I'm 19, looking to get married one day, should the LORD provide an apostolic girl who wants to have a dozen children, and to think that there are brothers with wives that are
preventing themselves from having children, and looking at children as a burden and messing with the plan of GOD... I feel bad for you, I don't know how the spirit of the world got to you in this deceptive way
-Bro. Alex
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