AnonymousRex
Puritan Board Freshman
I'm not sure if this is the right place to be posting this, so I hope this meets the requirements.
I often find in Christian, especially Reformed, circles that marriage is an inevitable step in life that is unavoidable. The common understanding is that you will invariably meet someone (usually by the time you're 25), fall in love and within a few months tie, the proverbial knot and produce a busload of noisy and burdensome covenant children. In all of this God is glorified, I am sure.
Having said that, I do not have any desire to restrict myself to this sort of existence. Marriage and children entail a denial of self that I don't believe I'll ever be willing to make. Am I wrong to feel this? Is it morally reprehensible for me to enjoy a life of solitude, freely exploring (when I wish) the varieties of experience a godly life has to offer, free from the burden of screaming babies?
Furthermore, if this is wrong, upon what basis is it so? Is the desire for a single life condemned in Scripture or is it merely another man-made "social norm" without any real logical coherence to it? Somehow I think it is the latter.
AnonRex
I often find in Christian, especially Reformed, circles that marriage is an inevitable step in life that is unavoidable. The common understanding is that you will invariably meet someone (usually by the time you're 25), fall in love and within a few months tie, the proverbial knot and produce a busload of noisy and burdensome covenant children. In all of this God is glorified, I am sure.
Having said that, I do not have any desire to restrict myself to this sort of existence. Marriage and children entail a denial of self that I don't believe I'll ever be willing to make. Am I wrong to feel this? Is it morally reprehensible for me to enjoy a life of solitude, freely exploring (when I wish) the varieties of experience a godly life has to offer, free from the burden of screaming babies?
Furthermore, if this is wrong, upon what basis is it so? Is the desire for a single life condemned in Scripture or is it merely another man-made "social norm" without any real logical coherence to it? Somehow I think it is the latter.
AnonRex