Duggars expecting child #19

It's clear that they engage in practices that are scripturally questionable (gothard/quiverfull, refusal to attend church), and there's an apparant indication that that some of their practices are unreasonable and irresponsible (forbidding adult children from leaving the house, continuing to have children just for the sake of having children). However, assuming there's no abuse, they're still allowed to raise their family as they choose.

The sticking point for so many of us is whether the freedom to allow people to have/raise kids as they see fit absolves them from criticism. It does not. No one here is advocating trumping on the Duggar's freedoms. But that does NOT mean there should be a refrain from noting actions of them that are questionable.

 

Gothard is a personal choice not something that should be questionable to everyone. The values taught to the girls are also personal choices and not something for everyone to be concerned with.

Not going to church is unscriptural, having kids because one is relying on God to be their birth control is just silly, that is like sitting on the couch on Sunday morning and saying alright God take me to church.

Outside of that having that many kids is not in error. But overall there is no real underlying problem.

Some people think parental authority stops at legal consent. Others do not nothing abusive about either and is a personal choice.

 

Like I said. It's not surprising to see who is critical of this family and their service to God. They would be holding this family up as a pillar of righteousness if their "service" was blasting "Christian rap" into a crowd of riotous teens.

But when they serve God by being fruitful and multiplying, they're a cult!

God help us.

 

Just visited Quiverfull.com .

So far, nothing even remotely unscriptural.

 

Why don't you point it out.

 

If you have more knowledge about the "movement" than I do, then select one of their unscriptural tenets or leanings and post it with an internet citation.

Admittedly, I haven't read this entire thread (and don't intend to), but it seems as if folks are just throwing the Quiverfull "movement" name around as if it has a defacto negative connotation—hardly a substantive argument.

 

Go to the website and point out what you see that should be objectionable to everyone.

 

You are right. But this issue is not worth any amount of condemnation.

 

Not from a Scriptural point of view. From what point of view do you call it wrong?

 

So having lots of children in devotion to God is like drunkeness, sloth, and death-defying stunts? From what Scripture do you make this judgment?

Suzanna Wesley was the 25th of 25 children. Were her parents akin to drunken slobs?

She gave birth 19 times herself? Was the mother of John and Charles Wesley like a dare-devil, drunken slob?

 

because you want to dub them a cult. A rather extreme view based on a small theological error. From your posts your biggest concern seems to be with what they see as parental authority and not so much everything else. But you need to prop up the parental authority so you pick on as much as you can and try to tie separate issues together.

In the end it just is not that big a deal.