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No pleasure in the matter, that is a matter of the soul, pleasure, and then the will as well, no. Just a matter of sanctity of presence not only sanctity of character. Separate from the world unto God.
If this is the case then you are absolutely in error making a blanket statement that AI is adultery. It would rather depend on the atitudes. Remember Jesus saying that if a man looks at a woman lustfully he has committed adultery in his heart. Well if a man doesn't look at a woman lustfully then he obviously isn't committing adultery. What is the difference between the two ways of looking. It is a heart attitude. So it would also be with AI. It would depend on the attitude of those involved. So for some it may be right and others it may be wrong.In my posts about the heart, I mean the heart of the spirit, not the pump.
Is artificial insemination adulterous?
Another man apart from the husband, his sex cells from his loins going into the first man's wife, and fusing with her seed in her heart, creating a special bond between the the wife and donor, she never meets.
I think it is foul in the history of her body. Causing need of prayer for salvation in restoration. Jesus blood sprinkled on her and her loins.
Is the honour of mixing seed the legal husband's?
When the child grows and is loved by the mother with features from an outsider, is she growing away from her husband? Should they be esteemed or held humble?
Does this serve God, the economy, lust, peace..., what? Can the legal husband ask for restoration?
Apparently you have no idea what constitutes "adultry". Grab any dictionary then re-think your opinion.If the sperm is not from her husband, then DEFINATELY in my opinion, it is adultery.....
Even if the husband is not able to father children and together with his wife they choose a sperm donor?If the sperm is not from her husband, then DEFINATELY in my opinion, it is adultery.....
Faulty logic here actually. Go look at thw word gay in a dictionary http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gay Once upon a time you would never have found definition #5 listed under the word gay. The meaning of words change and therefore our understanding of adultery now could be different from what was understood to be adultery in biblical times. That was a point someone made earlier in this thread. I'm not sure I agree with them but it is still true definitions change so simply looking in a dictionary does not help.Apparently you have no idea what constitutes "adultry". Grab any dictionary then re-think your opinion.
Would you refuse blood? Organs? Chemotherapy?
Life saving/pain reliving drugs?
Those things are playing God as well. To say that God must not have wanted you to have kids, but that it's okay to treat cancer is, IMO, crazy. Maybe God's plan for you or your loved one to die? And yet, we waste no time rushing out to 'fix' the problem. Why? B/c it's medical? So is infertility. It's a malfunction of an organ/s of the body.
I do agree that a couple should absolutely be in agreement together before undertaking any ART.
Rushing into this is also a recipe for disaster.
I do agree that a couple should absolutely be in agreement together before undertaking any ART.
Rushing into this is also a recipe for disaster.
Very very true. Congratulations on your child.I suppose then, by many definitions here, that I am an adultress. Also then, as he wholeheartedly agreed, so is my husband for agreeing.
I have never seen a picture of the donor, only the written profile. Dh and I chose the donor together.
DH was in the room, holding my hand, when I was inseminated. There was no donor, no 'other' involved. Just he and I creating a child between us.
Would you refuse blood? Organs? Chemotherapy?
Life saving/pain reliving drugs?
Those things are playing God as well. To say that God must not have wanted you to have kids, but that it's okay to treat cancer is, IMO, crazy. Maybe God's plan for you or your loved one to die? And yet, we waste no time rushing out to 'fix' the problem. Why? B/c it's medical? So is infertility. It's a malfunction of an organ/s of the body.
I do agree that a couple should absolutely be in agreement together before undertaking any ART.
Rushing into this is also a recipe for disaster.
Dh and I have dealt with this for four years.
Gone to counseling, both secular and Christian, explored all our options, from adoption, foreign and domestic (too expensive, time consuming), foster/adopting (just not ready for the problems this brings, and the heartbreak), to embryo adoption (not a good chance of 'taking', too expensive). AI, with donor sperm, was and is our best option.
My prayers go out to those dealing with infertility. Until you've been here, you just DON'T KNOW.
So if you wouldn't do it then I hope that should you ever be in a relationship that you would make that clear to your partner BEFORE you get married. Otherwise you could end up destroying your marriage if she was to disagree with you. Of course if you see it as wrong then according to the bible it is wrong for you but not other people.I personally would not do it either, in earnest and dearly would not have peace if someone else made my wife, a hypothetical wife, concieve. It is beyond my imagination to see peace after that. It is really more weighty that a house and twelve sports cars...!
This is not an option for alot of people. Do you understand all the issues involved in fertility problems? This solution ignores most of the problems.Scientifically writing, there is the option, a Dr described as smart medicine, of directly injecting the egg, with her husband's seed itself! It is said, only 1 in 6 "take". One man was surprised after to find his wife had a black baby however, because, his Dr used a dirty pipette, a black man needed earlier.
and people have done this kind of thing and come to a different conclusion. Short of biblical evidence which i do not believe you have provided (that is I disagree with your interpretation) there is no reason to not go ahead provided both agree.Personally, as a Christian, I urge strongly, that believers trust God's Spirit to heal them into fertility. If need be, go on a pilgrimage of trust, a coach trip for then a year or two's stay in under a powerful ministry, reputable, boasting God's Spirit is there in power and love! Recieve prayer for holiness and healing, and children, the Lord names Himself through knowledge gifts. It is real!
In my understanding I would say that Jesus would say go for it. It is also the same conclusion reached by many who have considered this.WWJD? What would Jesus do? And if He spoke audibly to you, what would he say?
and God provides through medical procedures of which AI is one. Unless you reject all medicine as practiced in hospitals including simple operations like knee surgery or even putting a broken arm in plaster then there is no reason you have put forth that means one should not consider AI.God is the provider, healer and His is the order and ancient Way.
I suppose then, by many definitions here, that I am an adultress. Also then, as he wholeheartedly agreed, so is my husband for agreeing.
I have never seen a picture of the donor, only the written profile. Dh and I chose the donor together.
DH was in the room, holding my hand, when I was inseminated. There was no donor, no 'other' involved. Just he and I creating a child between us.
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