Frankenstein's monster came out a flawed creation with severe problems. So too, many children are born with genetic defects and deformities, minor or severe, and these also cast a stumbling block in their way.Įven sex the way we're told it's meant to be done is a form of playing God, thinking you can create that perfect being and be the perfect parent that protects them and guides them to Christ unlike (minor spoiler) Frankenstein, who abandoned his creature/child and let him rot in the cold and cruel world until it hardened the creature into a hateful killer.Įven if he had stitched those dead body parts he used back together more precisely and better hid the stitch work or doctored the creature's skin to look prettier, or took more precautions to prevent it from being led down an evil road, he still had no business trying to create his own life and mistakes that would "cast a stumbling block" in the creature's way were inevitable. Now, we can all agree that Frankenstein ought not have played God and tried creating a human life in the first place, and that at the very least he could've tried to be responsible and "clean up his mess" by acting as the father and protector of the being. It seems to me that this is what marriage is really for. It is not a road to sex and children, it is simply the redemption for it. It's for two sinners who have fallen prey to lust and animalistic urges and had a child to do right by it and raise it so as to help it find Jesus (much like Victor Frankenstein may have been able to "redeem" himself in a sense had he tried to act as a loving Christian father to his helpless "child" rather than leaving it to the cruelty of the world). If one does not have children, they should not have children and thus have no need of or purpose for marriage and are to avoid it. In fact, I have not heard of anyone in the early church who appeared to have had any children or a spouse.Īfter all, none of the disciples had children or spouses.
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