What do you think of the bible saying that God prospers and blesses those who choose to settle down and have a family instead of being single?

When I was planning to get married and have kids I believed very strongly I'd make over 5 million and maybe over 40,000,000 with my book ideas which could be turned into 28 books cause I have so much data to go on. But when I decided that I thought being a wife and mother was too hard and did not want to get married, it was like, I did not believe I'd make more than $80,000 total from my ideas which took 16 years to come up with. One of the reasons I did not marry is that I'm scared of marriage and kids cause I've never been married and I've never had my own kids or any one else's kids either.

AMS700CX4u2

Xper 6 Age: 73

From the beginning His request has been " y'all, Make me some children" Marriage was not His idea, but if it helps to achieve His purpose, He can work with us, even though it denies His sovereignty.

CalmUntilAbused

4 mo
I beg to differ. It is indeed said:

"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food." - Genesis 1, 27-29

But it is also said:

"The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame." - Genesis 2, 18-25

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CalmUntilAbused

4 mo
We're at the dawn of humanity, and Adam and Eve are already husband and wife, and they are monogamous. For every man out there, there is a single woman fit to be his helper (traditionally, the housewife - not a serf, that is a misinterpretation, they are both human and while she is there "second", she is in no dignity-related way inferior), for every woman out there, there is a single man out there to be her helper (traditionally, the protector).

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AMS700CX4u2

4 mo
Ok, you just supported my point. Everyone of us that took marriage vows were told by the Pastor that God did not want us to get married. because it requred us to swear an oath, which denied his sovereignty. It is something that society requires of us. So what are the Cliff's notes, What did it mean. What is the significance.

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CalmUntilAbused

4 mo
I'm not sure about Protestants (please take no offence, it's just that I'm not a Protestant and I don't really know many Protestants), but in the Catholic way, it's not the priest who bestows the Sacrament of Marriage upon the newlyweds in God Almighty's stead, but rather the newlyweds bestow the Sacrament of Marriage upon each other, in the priest's presence and before God Almighty, and that's actually what is quite special about this particular Sacrament, mimicking how Adam chose Eve as his "helper" (and Eve apparently did the same). And how can You deny the sovereignty of the One whose sovereignty is absolute? God Almighty is the One who limits Himself willingly, bestowing the gift of free will upon humanity and respecting it, but had He wanted, He could easily influence everything and anything.

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