Genesis 21:1-6?

Question

Genesis 21:1-6
Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac [a] to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."

Questions:

1) Is God somehow involved in conception and pregnancy? Support your position.

2) In what ways do some women have a false sense of control with family planning

3) How is pregnancy a gift from God?

Answer 1

GOD is the creator. In Childbirth parents are paticipating with GOD in the creative act. We can't really understate that. Because this is something we associate solely with GOD. But the Bible says "You are gods.. ." and the family is an image of the HOLY TRINITY.

1. GOD is certainly involved with conception and pregnancy. We must protect life from conception to natural death.
Jeremiah 1:5  Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.

2. Humane Vitae has outlawed condoms by infallible teaching of the Pope Paul VI. That means no condoms or birth control of any sort. Sex must be open to the procreative act.

3. Pregnancy is a participation in the creative act. Which as we have shown is the providence of GOD. These children will be ETERNALLY the sons of GOD . ..

Psalms 82:6  I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

Answer 2

1. God was NOT involved with the conception and pregnancy. If He was, then the baby would have a spiritual father instead of a human one, like Jesus did. He merely knew the future. Besides... men do NOT become infertile at all. They're highly fertile until the day they die.

2. Oh, yes... family planning does give us a false sense of control. Family planning focuses only on ovulation, and other very minimal birth controls. You cannot predict your ovulation. Your ovulation depends on how much you eat in a given month, how much you weigh (lost or gained), how stressed you are, and so on and so forth. Personally, I don't like family planning!

3. Pregnancy is a gift from God IF... we choose to accept it. IF... we are ready for it. IF... we wanted children in the first place. But then that's for people in the better situations. For others in worse situations who did not ask for it... God does not inflict evil upon us. Satan does. God doesn't let anything bad happen to us if there will be absolutely NO lesson to be gained from it, NO silver lining in it. So... a baby IS the silver lining. It changes everybody's moods when we're around a baby, to a lighter attitude and more smiles. How is that a curse instead of a gift?

Answer 3

1) God is most definitely involved in creation and procreation. In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth (1) is a clear statement that life and procreation is the decision of God.

2) We live in purgatory. Women and men are responsible for all their decisions and the control they set, the only false sense is denial.

3) Pregnancy is not the gift, the gift is the gift of life. A child is a life that can bring great joy and help in old age to a loving good parent. Even those children given away in adoption by loving parents that made loving decisions for their children bestow blessings upon the natural parents for their presence in life. One commandment is to Love thy Father and thy Mother. If parental love is so important that a commandment to love the parents broken is a sin, then the child that is brought forth into the world to give love to their parent is the greatest gift of all.

Answer 4

1. The creation of new life, with a new soul is miraculous. People can put an egg and sperm together in the lab, but they cannot create the egg and sperm that make the new life.

2. False control? I think not. Keep your legs together and you don't get pregnant. Use other methods and take a chance.

3. There are no words to describe the wonder of pregnancy and childbirth until you go through it. I am a grandmother and a professional woman with many wonderful experiences in my life, but none rival my two pregnancies and having my two sons.

Answer 5

1) Yes God is most definitely involved with conception and pregnancy. Psalm 139:16 "Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." God opened the wombs of different women throughout the Bible who were not able to have children - Sarah had Isaac - Rachel had Joseph - Hannah had Samuel - Elizabeth had John (the Baptist) - and especially Mary having Jesus without having been with a man. And he also closed the womb of others - the only one immediately coming to mind was Michal (Saul's daughter) whose womb was closed after she despised David's worshipful dance display before the LORD and Ark of Covenant.

2) The same way we all have false senses of control over things that are not meant to be entirely up to us. We can time things and take pills or whatever, but as the previous question addresses - the outcome is from the LORD.

3) Pregnancy is a gift from God because it is the propitiation of mankind and it is one of God's examples of something we can experience that gives us a small view of how much God loves us. Seeing a child grow and guiding them and loving them (no matter what they do) parallels what God does and feels for us. In today's society of using abortion as birth control not everyone appreciates the blessing of pregnancy/children, but in ancient cultures it was seen as being cursed of God not to bear children, and as an immense blessing (Elizabeth speaks of her shame being taken away) to bear children.

Psalms 127:4-5 "Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate."

Answer 6

Of course God is involved with pregnancy, and He is involved with everything else that is good and natural. Conceive a baby is a gift from God, and the most important task He gives to us, because we are tools in His hands, raising His children. He is involved with the lack of pregnancy as well, but it wouldn't be a punishment, only something a few people have to go through due to things that happened in a past life. Let's say that someone had an abortion, for example in a previous life, and now he/she can't have babies and struggles to have one.

Peace!

Answer 7

Genesis 29:31 When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 30:1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!" 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

Psa 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Answer 8

1) Yes. The Psalms say "before you knit me together in my Mother's womb, you knew me."

2) Unfortunately, it's a fallen world. There will probably always be uncertainty in family planning. Miscarriages, changes in menstrual cycles, etc. They have less control than they think.

3) The book of James says, "every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights." I have five kids. Each of them was and is a good and perfect gift.

Answer 9

Fictional gods do not influence real biological processes.

Hint: about half of pregnancies end in miscarriage - most of the time without the woman even realizing she was pregnant. What kind of god would cause that?

Answer 10

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