God and Pregnancy?

Question

Is being young (15+) and pregnant a sin? What if you are married? Why is the Christian community so against it young pregnancy? If God didn't want young girls to get pregnant why did he make periods start so soon? I'm not trying to start an arguement...just curious. Please relate this to your religion not your own personal views.

I am not 15 or pregnant. It's just a question...

IN ALL CAPS THIS TIME:
I AM NOT FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. I AM NOT PREGNANT. IT IS A HYPOTHETICIAL QUESTION...

Answer 1

Is this hypothetical (an imaginary situation you came up with) or is this really you? I'm guessing it's really you. If so, God bless you and keep you, because you are going to need His help.

As others have said, sex within marriage is fine, as long as it is consensual or agreed to by both people. But sex outside of marriage is a sin. Getting married after getting pregnant does not take away that sin.

You can, however, be forgiven. Asking Jesus Christ to be your personal savior forgives you for all of your sins. No one sin is unforgivable through Christ.

As to why God gives girls the capacity to bear children at what we consider a young age, I would have to say that it is cultural. In America, and many other "Westernized" countries, we do not get married until our twenties or later. In earlier cultures, and other modern cultures, marriage occurred earlier in life. A bride in her teens was common; an unmarried young lady of twenty was considered an old maid. Times have changed, and yet we are still as we were created to be.

Do not dwell on past decisions, be they right or wrong. Ask God to forgive you, and he will. Look forward to making good decisions in the future, and God will take care of you.

Answer 2

Back in Bible times up until very recent history like the last couple hundred years women or girls would be married as young as 12 or 13. If a girl is married it wouldn't be a sin for her to pregnant. Being pregnant itself is not a sin anyway. If you have sex outside of marriage that is called fornication and that is where the sin would come into it. But God would want the unmarried pregnant girl to have the baby cause it would be a worse sin to abort it. The sex is the sin if unmarried the pregnancy is just a result of that but its not the babies fault so the baby is blameless in this and the pregnancy is not the sin. Today most fifteen year old girls are not mature enough to take care of a baby there may be some exceptions to that.

Answer 3

Being pregnant is not a sin. The bible only says that children are a blessing from the Lord. Nowhere does the bible say that some pregnacies were cursed and the result of sin. That's ludicrious. Anyone who condemns a young person making the choice to have their baby - has little knowledge of God, has pride, doesn't own up to the fact that they have made mistakes and is ignorant of the truth. Some of the choices one makes to have sex outside of marriage - that would be the sin. No baby is conceived by accident. The Psalms say that he knitted us in our mother's womb. Being pregnant is an incredible blessing no matter what your age! It's a miracle and there are alot of Christians who are not against girls having babies when they are young. I would applaud and assist a young girl in this situation. We may be against the whole idea of having sex outside of the bonds of marriage because many times young people have not matured enough to understand what true love is and haven't even taken full responsibility for their own lives yet - much less that of a brand new human being! God has a plan for every baby that is conceived - even the ones that are miscarried. Age is only relevant to the laws we have in place in our country and not a factor as it relates to God. If you could be 15 and married - that would be ideal. The whole thing is that God doesn't want young girls to have sex outside of marriage - not that he doesn't want them to get pregnant. I think in bible days - they probably didn't have a law on how old a girl had to be and some probably did marry earlier than the law allows. But, the bible says to submit to your governing authorities and I don't know what the legal age for marriage actually is - but I would think that you would want to honor that and wait for when you could marry. But - if a girl does get pregnant - God asks us to have mercy love justice and have forgiveness in our hearts before all things. No baby asked to be born and God does not give everyone children. So, it is physically more dangerous and God does want us to live wisely - not wasting our lives only thinking about the joy of sex when there is so many other more important facets of life and things to be involved in heavily. Love does not equal sex and true love and marriage is not based on sex. Alot of teens are preoccupied with it and go out and have it based on media messages and the music they listen to. Many are brainwashed by peers - a public education system that tells them they are animals just products of evolution and then hands them condoms telling them to have safe sex. Young people come out of this without having any wisdom discernment or realization that there could be another way to live since we have secularized the public school system entirely. So if the public school system is parenting our kids - then many parents are not taking their God given responsibilty to train them in the truth - they are getting saturated day in and day out with messages about how great sex is and that everybody does it and if you just have a condom everything will be fine since we're all animals we have to do it. If God didn't create the world and evolution is a fact - then there is no basis for a moral society and sex is the best we can do - forget chastity, purity, love, waiting for someone special, and the powerful incredible satisfaction and amazing hope trust patience peace that a pure marriage brings a person.

Answer 4

Well, ARE you married? If so ,no problem. If not, then the problem would be that you were out committing fornication ( sex before marriage, i.e. a sin ) and that is what people have a problem with.
ALSO-- 15 IS a pretty young age to be having children. JUST because girls get their periods at young ages ( a friend of mine started at 8 years old, farrrr too young for her to have a child, don't you think??) , doesn't nessecarily mean that they are emotionally, physically or mentally ready to bear children. At 15, you are still in the grips of puberty and most kids don't know their heads from their toes hardly, much less enough to raise a child. Its hard enough for a single woman of 25 to raise a child alone, much less a child of 15 to raise one, even if she does have the loving support of her parents and family.
Does that help any or did I make it worse??

Answer 5

If you were married before the conception then I would say it was not a sin. If you weren't married then yes it was. As a Christian I am not against young pregnancy, I am against out of wedlock pregnancy though.Statistics have prov-en that most marriages, when they marry that young, don't last. If people were ' so in love' to marry at that young of an age, why wouldn't their love have waited another couple years. It wouldn't and they know it. Being 17 with a kid, as long as you are married I don't see anything wrong. I read your previous questions.

Answer 6

Christians are against pregnancy at a young age because you're young and that means you had sex.And it's twice as bad because if you're pregnant you are already 16,not married or anything.They think you had sex for pleasure so in other words you are considered fast or too grown for them,sometimes you can't always trust christians because they look down on everyone because they think they know it all,there is only certain ones out there.If you are pregnant at 15 they are supposed to accept you because god loves everyone and he said come as you are.So if they don't except and they are representing god then they are not real christians,so don't listen to those types.It is a sin but god will forgive you for it.

Answer 7

Christian's want:

"First comes love
Then comes marriage
Then comes the baby in the baby carriage."

In Western societies (like USA & Britian), young women are encouraged to get their education before marrying and raising childreen. This will allow the Christain Mom to teach her young, and raise her childreen with greater prosperity, and resources.

In third world countries, Christianity is still teaching the basics, like marriage, monogomy, and even grade school for the girls (which is rare). Oprah did a show on "Festulance" where 10-14 year old women had childreen before their bodies developed. When they gave birth (child could be born alive or dead), they ripped their utterious, causing "Festulance". This rip in the uterious causes a fowl smell, which the town will isolate these women to avoid the smells from their uterious (ewww). So, in Western Culture, by having women wait longer till their bodies, minds, and souls mature helps avoid these third world problems.

Answer 8

Well, before the miracle of modern medicine, people didn't have long lifespans. Around 35 or 40, maybe 50 years if you were lucky, due to diseases such as influenza (the flu) and mumps and measles and diabetes and many other things we now have cures for.

Therefore, it was common for women to marry and have children at younger ages. They typically had far more children (10+ was not uncommon) than we have today and needed all of their childbearing years to do this.

Now, we have so much more time available to enjoy life, that it is unnecessary to utilize this bodily function so early in life.

Answer 9

I suppose if a 15 year old girl is married then the same rules apply as to all other married people. Getting pregnant would not be a sin.
We are also told to obey the laws of the land, so if it is against the law to be married at 15 or for an adult male to marry an underage girl, then we should obey those laws.

Answer 10

is the Christian community against pregnancy at a young age? i wonder where you got that. i grew up as a Catholic believing that it's a sin to get pregnant out of wedlock but it's the first time i heard about this one.

in our country, if you're young and you want to get married, you simply need parental permission and you can marry even at 10 years old. one of my distant cousins did that.

it's NOT true that Christians are against marriages of young people.