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Phydios wrote:

I understand, but take note of the fact that God's command to "be fruitful and multiply" does not have conditions attached, and that God is still in complete control of of the universe. Not everything comes from him, but nothing happens without His explicit permission.

I think that the applicability of that command is not necessarily universal, particularly given Paul's writing. The contrast between some of the verses in Proverbs and Psalms extolling childbearing and Paul in Corinthians saying that it is better to remain unmarried as he did is interesting and there's plenty of discussion on the balance, but at the least it seems to debunk the idea that marriage and fathering children is a necessity-I don't think Paul was denying God by not following the order to Adam and Eve.

I've felt this way in other contexts as well, but this is where being an Arminian is a great deal more neurotic than being a Calvinist, I wish I could be convinced enough to 'convert', but it leaves one in a standing where the end of history is known, but the interim, as Scripture indicates, is in a world that Satan is the prince of.