If 95% of people go to hell, aren't you taking an incredible risk by bringing a child into existence? And if your answer is that as Christian parents you can help your child on the right path, wouldn't it be more ethical to adopt a child who already exists and save them rather than bring a new one into existence?
2007-01-16 06:00:55 · 20 answers · asked by mullah robertson 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
good point. But I think in the mormon case 99.99999999999999% will burn
2007-01-16 06:04:23 · answer #1 · answered by Sean 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
First of all if the 95% were even true it would be because the world is severely corrupt. Bringing a child into this world is part of heavenly fathers plan. If we don't do it, some incompitant teenager will. There is no greater calling on earth then rasing your own children, that is the whole reason for exsistence, to procreate and live happily. not to sleep around or get high, or go out partying all night. Not pointing any fingers. If you came from a wholesome family background you would know what I was talking about. And, the whole adoption thing, not everyone feels comfortable or has the excess money to adopt a foreign child, becuas they waiting list for an american child is years long. And they don't want an older child and deal with those issues. I guess having your own child has a certain connection.
2007-01-16 14:11:19 · answer #2 · answered by cracker2423 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where'd this 95% figure come from?
Hell doesn't exist. Proof for the literalists reading this:
"God our savior... wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth" 1 Timothy 2:3-4
"Whatever the LORD wishes he does in heaven and on earth" Psalm 135:6
He wills all to be saved, and whatever he wills happens, therefore all are saved. QED.
For what it's worth, I'm not a literalist, and I have other grounds for not believing in hell.
2007-01-16 14:09:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you ask Christians? Don't other religions have children? You are making a big leap from having children to the possibility of going to hell. The question of adoption to is an ethical one, not a religious one. What is your real question here?
2007-01-16 14:16:43 · answer #4 · answered by mdwildgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did you get that 95% from? What is your source?
Do you have a child or children? If so, why did you have kids?
If not, do you plan on having children?
Adoption is a great idea! There are many unwanted children that need loving homes.
Adoption is an option!!! :o)
2007-01-16 14:06:05 · answer #5 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You don't understand Christianity very well, do you? Decent Chrisitan parents will baptize their child and put it through the rest of the sacraments. Then when the person dies you get the last rites, the last sacrament which offers forgiveness for your Earthly sins and allows you to enter heaven.
It is a completely fool-proof system as long as you go for the death-bed repentance.
2007-01-16 14:05:00 · answer #6 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
2335 Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way. The union of man and woman in marriage is a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity: "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh." All human generations proceed from this union.
BTW- We pray for everyone to goto heaven.
2007-01-16 14:11:20 · answer #7 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says 95% of people are going to hell?
2007-01-16 14:04:38 · answer #8 · answered by Immortal Cordova 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
So we become more numerous than you since your kind kills their unborn and generally doesn't like too many kids around.
Nobody knows what percentage of people go to hell, but I bet 100% percent of atheists go to hell and that's a lot bigger percentage than the kids raised by Christians who go to hell.
I say 5% chance of heaven is a heck of a lot better than 0%
2007-01-16 14:11:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God decides if anyone brings a child into the world.
2007-01-16 14:06:16 · answer #10 · answered by love2shop 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put your fingers on the thumbs down button, most of you aren't going to like this answer.
If you are here it is because God chose for you to be here. So when we have a child, God has allowed that blessing to happen not for you but for Himself.
2007-01-16 14:05:31 · answer #11 · answered by gtahvfaith 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋