What are your thoughts on Abortion? The Bible never specifically addresses the issue of abortion. However, there are numerous teachings in Scripture that make it abundantly clear what...
Jacob Coughlin My thoughts about adoption, are that it is great to bless someone else with potentially life. Usually people that are asking about adoption are...My thoughts about adoption, are that it is great to bless someone else with potentially life. Usually people that are asking about adoption are looking for away out from taking care of there child or do not have the capabilities to care for there child. Also there are some parents that aren't able to birth a child so this is a great way for them to have the joy of a child. Show more5 years ago
Heather Mellott I agree. You can see throughout the Bible adoption is apart of God’s heart and plan. First with us, adopting us into His family. God says we become...I agree. You can see throughout the Bible adoption is apart of God’s heart and plan. First with us, adopting us into His family. God says we become part of His family—not through the natural process of human conception, but through adoption. “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship [adoption]. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father’” (Romans 8:15). Similarly, bringing a person into a family by means of adoption is done by choice and out of love. “His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure” (Ephesians 1:5). As God adopts those who receive Christ as Savior into His spiritual family, so should we all prayerfully consider adopting children into our own physical families.<br /><br />Adoption—both in the physical sense and in the spiritual sense—is shown in a favorable light in Scripture. Both those who adopt and those who are adopted are receiving a tremendous blessing, a privilege exemplified by our adoption into God’s family.<br /><br />Other examples:<br /><br />The book of Exodus tells the story of a Hebrew woman named Jochebed who bore a son during a time when Pharaoh had ordered all Hebrew male infants to be put to death (Exodus 1:15-22). Jochebed took a basket, waterproofed it, and sent the baby down the river in the basket. One of Pharaoh’s daughters spotted the basket and retrieved the child. She eventually adopted him into the royal family and gave him the name Moses. He went on to become a faithful and blessed servant of God (Exodus 2:1-10).<br /><br />In the book of Esther, a beautiful girl named Esther, who was adopted by her cousin after her parents' death, became a queen, and God used her to bring deliverance to the Jewish people. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ was conceived through the Holy Spirit instead of through the seed of a man (Matthew 1:18). He was “adopted” and raised by His mother's husband, Joseph, who took Jesus as his own child.<br /><br />www.gotquestions.org/adoption.htmlShow moreLoading content, please wait.5 years ago