Sometimes, people, not wanting to wait for God’s perfect timing, get pregnant by in-vitro fertilization out of impatience.
How is not waiting for God’s timing in pregnancy by reaching for a medical procedure different from other medical conditions and medical solutions?
Knee surgery? Maybe you should pray and wait for God to heal your knee on his timing. If he doesn’t, that’s a thorn in your flesh for you to bear (2 Corinthians 12). When the murders aspect of IVF is addressed and it’s only their argument of “God’s timing”, they open themselves up to this.
I disagree with their reasoning because I know that it doesn’t get applied consistently. God wants us to trust in him, and he gives us the task of stewarding creation to his glory and purposes. If evil is working to prevent offspring and conception through poisons, vaccines, and abortion, shouldn’t we use what we have available to increase fertility when it is does not violate God’s law?
Indeed science and knowledge are gifts from God, and He wants us to live healthy and active lives. However, the difference between knee surgery etc. and IVF is creating new life. Harari makes a lame argument that transhumanism is creating new life forms. It's not. It is simply assembling parts. Only God can create life.
A thorn in the flesh brings us closer to God, but this gets taken out of context all the time. This does not apply to a single knee surgery. What if you've had five surgeries and the condition does not improve? At some point you have to just offer that up and say God what do you intend for me.
How is not waiting for God’s timing in pregnancy by reaching for a medical procedure different from other medical conditions and medical solutions?
Knee surgery? Maybe you should pray and wait for God to heal your knee on his timing. If he doesn’t, that’s a thorn in your flesh for you to bear (2 Corinthians 12). When the murders aspect of IVF is addressed and it’s only their argument of “God’s timing”, they open themselves up to this.
I disagree with their reasoning because I know that it doesn’t get applied consistently. God wants us to trust in him, and he gives us the task of stewarding creation to his glory and purposes. If evil is working to prevent offspring and conception through poisons, vaccines, and abortion, shouldn’t we use what we have available to increase fertility when it is does not violate God’s law?
Indeed science and knowledge are gifts from God, and He wants us to live healthy and active lives. However, the difference between knee surgery etc. and IVF is creating new life. Harari makes a lame argument that transhumanism is creating new life forms. It's not. It is simply assembling parts. Only God can create life.
A thorn in the flesh brings us closer to God, but this gets taken out of context all the time. This does not apply to a single knee surgery. What if you've had five surgeries and the condition does not improve? At some point you have to just offer that up and say God what do you intend for me.
My hope is that we seek God's guidance and that He provides. How? Pray. Apply.
u/#prayer
Can’t imagine why this would receive downvotes.