Not at all. The Church consists of those who have been saved by grace, and believers are commanded to marry and bear children.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. (1 Cor 7:2)
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. (Heb 13:4)
Notwithstanding she [THE CHRISTIAN WOMAN] shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. (1 Tim 2:15)
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. (1 Tim 5:14)
Christians are not at liberty to nullify what God has commanded. Indeed any commandment to abstain from marriage is a doctrine of devils. And we know the evils of celibacy in the Catholic Church and the results of commanding celibacy.
No. Paul is advising marriage because people are prone to fornication (sin), to occupy troublemakers and busybodies (sin), and for all intents and purposes to placate the flesh and the needs of the flesh remedially (sinning flesh) . All of those dictates were not commandments they were in fact concessions to the flesh, and certainly not in any way doctrine, as many Christians would have it. Paul made it perfectly clear that its preferential to be single like he was, and consequently childlessness was also preferential.
If you can control your sinful passions!
And if you cannot control your sinful passions you should marry, and there is no sin in marriage.
For Christians marriage merely solves a sin problem. This is clear from the text, it is not some kind of high and holy calling. The high and holy calling is Christ and Christ alone. Paul is making it clear that everything else is a compromise in my opinion.
If you are so imbued with the Holy Spirit as Paul was to avoid the lusts of the flesh I guarantee you you will never be married. In fact he wouldn't give it a second thought. And you certainly wouldn't be fixated on it night and day!
And if you care to notice, there is no
commandment from the Lord to marry or have children for Christians, as Paul makes perfectly clear. Jesus Himself is silent on the matter, other than implying that it is a compromise, and to deny unlawful divorce. And somebody show me one single solitary marriage ceremony or announcement and one child birth noted in Scripture in the Church age. Everybody knows it's not there.
No. The present church age is preach preach preach great commission great commission, and worshiping at the feet of Jesus Christ Messiah and glorifying Him, and waiting for His soon coming. This present sinful life and present sinful world will not even be remembered in the world to come in my opinion.
In closing let me emphasize that there is no sin in marriage in childbearing. No sinning not a sin.
