let's keep it real here pt. 2

Ummmmmmmm.



No, no no no no no no no no no no.  He has it all wrong.  And no, I am not biased just because one of my brother's is adopted.  If we had never adopted I would still have this opinion on the topic.  

First of all.  When you adopt children from other countries, you are not taking on the united nations.  

Second.  Yes.  When you adopt a child, you don't know what problems that child will have.  You don't know what kind of physical or mental issues that child went through before you were his parents.  

And I'm sorry, but yes, when you adopt a child you do not know what that child is going to struggle with.  But when you have a child biologically it is the same thing.  You are not pregnant knowing your child is going to be perfectly healthy.  No, you know God is in control of it all so you don't worry about it.  You don't just not have kids because of that "fear".  That's exactly how it is with adoption.  You don't just not adopt children because of the risks.  Yes, there are many risks.  But yes, if God tells you to adopt a child, and He puts that child in your life and that child is chosen by God... you do not have to worry.  If you know God has called you to that specific child you do not just ignore it because of the risks involved.  No. Way.

Third.  The best way to love and care for orphans and to obey God's Word is to go out and take them in.  Like... let's keep it real here.

Read James 1:27.  Or Isaiah 1:17.... Matthew 18:5????????  Do you deny that????  Do you believe that????  We are all called to orphans.  Whether that means adopting them, coming alongside an adoptive family, caring for orphans, the list goes on and on.

Fourth.  Ummmm.  Hello, but God took you in and adopted you as a dirty, rotten, brain-damaged horrible sinner.  He doesn't just help you from afar because of the "risks".  He doesn't just visit us when we need Him.  No, He's always there.  How can this man... who I am sure has spent many hours in the Word... say that you shouldn't take in orphans because of the risks?  Horrid.

(Now.  I am not saying that if you have not adopted you are not helping orphans.  No way.  If you have helped orphans, came alongside an adoptive family, etc etc etc.... it goes on and on.... you too are helping orphans.  We are all called to orphans.  Not just the ones that are called to adopt.  In this post I am just addressing Mr. Robertson's words that no one should have to adopt because of the "risks".  I know that every person's convictions are different.)

I am absolutely disgusted.  Disgusted.