In general, bearing children in the context of marriage is the biblical norm. It is required to fulfil God's charge to "be frui...
In general, bearing children in the context of marriage is the biblical norm. It is required to fulfil God's charge to "be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth…" (Genesis 1:28). In the Bible, infertility was an anomaly worth mentioning, and there are no recorded instances of a couple voluntarily remaining childless—although there are examples of a husband remaining so dedicated to his infertile wife that he did not seek a second wife or concubine. Nowhere in the Bible did God condemn an infertile couple. Several times infertility was brought to an end with the birth of a significant Bible character (Genesis 21:7; 25:21; Judges 13; 1 Samuel 1; Luke 1). Twice God granted fertility to women for the expressed purpose of comforting them (Genesis 29:31; 2 Kings 4:8-17). And once God used infertility as a curse for sinful behavior (2 Samuel 6:20-23).
Fruitfulness and the torments of barrenness were more social than otherworldly. Kids were important to extend family possessions and accommodate guardians in their maturity. Ladies, particularly, depended on their children to watch over them. That social desire appears to revolve more around ladies than men. Abram was still the leader and patriarch of his extended family without direct heirs; it was Sarai who felt so aimless without children that she offered up her handmaiden Hagar as a surrogate (Genesis 16). And it was typically women, not husbands, who harassed other infertile women (Genesis 16:41; Samuel 1:6).
The more accurate question is, "Does God expect all fertile Christian couples to have children?" The Bible doesn't say. The omission may be unintentional, as children were seen as such a blessing that it was assumed all couples would want them. But still, we cannot add what is not there. Nowhere does the Bible say that all fertile couples must have children.
This conventional recognition predisposition brings about ladies' unreasonable duty and blame for regenerative disappointment, paying little heed to its genuine causes. Childless ladies are not just socially disparaged and detached; their failure to shoulder youngsters additionally brings about extreme conjugal disharmony. Childlessness is viewed as a typical reason for separation and partition and is additionally the most ready-made justification for spouses to remarry, regardless of the possibility that they have never had any restorative tests to check their own richness. Thus, barrenness turns into an "ace status" for undermining some other benefits and accomplishments ladies may have.
