kvanlaan
Puritan Board Doctor
Just to answer the reductio ad Hitlerum - yes, he was a blessing to his mother. For the first while, anyway. He had four other siblings die in infancy.
Again, we would not be having this conversation 100 years ago, and it has nothing to do with home-grown farm labourers. We can make up excuses 'til the cows come home, but the fact of the matter is that most of these arguments (or the seeds thereof, anyway) come from the culture of the day. Look to the correspondence of faithful Christians in the past 2000 years and I doubt very much that you will find much mention of this.
Let's look at Noah: he was how old when the Flood came: 600 years old. He had three boys in six centuries of attempts. And we're worried that we're going to end up with too many children?
Again, we would not be having this conversation 100 years ago, and it has nothing to do with home-grown farm labourers. We can make up excuses 'til the cows come home, but the fact of the matter is that most of these arguments (or the seeds thereof, anyway) come from the culture of the day. Look to the correspondence of faithful Christians in the past 2000 years and I doubt very much that you will find much mention of this.
Let's look at Noah: he was how old when the Flood came: 600 years old. He had three boys in six centuries of attempts. And we're worried that we're going to end up with too many children?