Adversity and Family

Giving birth, even with all the safeties, niceties and drugs of modern medicine, is still a dangerous task. Aside from the months where each of us are inside the womb, where virtually anything can happen – an extreme, such as the use of undertested prescription drugs, or something as everyday and mundane as falling down the stairs, can endanger the life of both child and mother.

So why, we must ask, did God desire for humanity to continue itself by means of an inherently dangerous procedure? Why, for example, did we not spring up from the ground, like mushrooms? It would not be beyond God to do this, and it would be a far safer means – and certainly more practical...

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