By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:21:49 +0000

As a believer for 35 years and a counselor to adult adoptees and “birth” mothers for 13 years, the Holy Spirit within me is deeply grieved by this new teaching. In adoption, both mother and child are separated for life, denied any contact whatsoever with each other forever. Our courts permanently divide them with no hope of reconciliation. Self-knowledge for the adoptee is limited because his/her records are sealed. Many adult adoptees do not know their family history nor have access to their medical records. Adoption causes deep, untold emotional pain and suffering for both mother and child, often scarring them for life. Adoption in America is a relatively new worldly man-made social experiment and legal contract based on secrets and lies that is hardhearted and cruel. Can anyone, after even a cursory read of the Bible, say adoption is of God? Indeed, you will search the scriptures in vain to find any support for the system as it functions today. In fact, if you study the Word of God with an open heart, you will find just the opposite. Permanently separating biological families for life is not God’s design! My hope is to see the church as a whole come out of denial as to the true nature of adoption and then support reform by living New Testament principles, particularly Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Taking in *true* orphans in a guardianship role is scriptural – but falsifying their birth certificates, withholding knowledge of their ethnic heritage and denying them relationships with their biological relatives most certainly is not. This nation is ripe for God’s judgment because of adoption – for not opening closed records, including original birth certificates, to adult adoptees upon their request (hallelujah for the few states that allow this) and continuing to shame and coerce young girls and women into relinquishing their babies against their will. God will forgive but there must be national repentance, including the recanting of Moore’s false gospel of adoption, which actually promotes lifelong family division and destruction under the guise of rescuing genuine orphans. In the last days “…there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.” (2 Peter 2:1, 2)

By: owenstrachan

owenstrachan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:30:05 +0000

Kind of you, John Michael. Thanks for your encouragement. Hope you’re well.

By: John Michael LaRue

John Michael LaRue — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:45:37 +0000

An excellent review for a phenomenal book. Thanks, Owen!

By: Owen Strachan on Russell Moore’s Adopted for Life at A Brick in the Valley

Owen Strachan on Russell Moore’s Adopted for Life at A Brick in the Valley — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:33:59 +0000

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