Jennifer's Adoption Blog

For those of you that may not realize I am still writing on blogger, please notice the link I've added to the right hand side of this blog entitled "Adoption". If you have no interest in adoption, you still might find it interesting to read. Below, is a quote I found and wanted to share with the church everywhere. I found it very interesting! All too often, we don't know what these words originally meant when the writer used them. I hope what you read below, as well as what you read on my adoption blog, will challenge you as a Christian.

"It is interesting to note that when God commanded us to be fruitful and multiply,
he did not use the Hebrew word for bearing children. If He did, there would only be one
true way to follow this command - biologically. But He did not use yalad, to bear young,
but parah, to bear fruit, and ravah, to increase in number. These verbs put the
emphasis on the product, the fruit, and the resulting increase in number. If you think
about it, bearing children really means a whole lot more than just the act of giving birth.
Bearing really communicates nurturing the fruit until it comes to maturity—in essence,
parenting."

http://members.shaohannahshope.org/site/DocServer/Luwis_Plan_A_vs_Plan_B.pdf?docID=141