This is Why: A Negative View of Children

The Biblical View of Children and the Family

This is why abortion is still legal, a negative view of children. How we see children in our culture today is often not only unhealthy, but just flat out unbiblical. Instead of looking to God's word for how we should structure our families and how we should view the blessing of children, we ascribe to the world's wisdom.

We often put off starting a family until later in our marriages, when we've had the time to have fun first. Despite false claims of overpopulation by environmentalists and abortion advocates, we're actually facing a fertility crisis, where people are producing less and less children because kids are seen increasingly as burdens on how mobile or independent or free we can be.

Now there's nothing wrong with having fun, or traveling, or getting a degree, but the truth is that just like all other issues of life, our thoughts and feelings about children flow from the condition of our hearts.

The Dominion Mandate and God's Design for Marriage

Are we honoring God with our family planning? How we view children is intimately tied to how we view God and his plan of salvation. The Dominion Mandate is still in full effect, all the way back to the Garden of Eden, and God commands us to multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it.

This doesn't mean that we should be irresponsible, but it does mean that we should obey God and not put off marriage and children for the sake of preserving our own measure of so-called freedom. Men and women, husbands and wives are truly free and can truly embrace their calling when they're operating according to God's structure and design.

Children as a Gift, Inheritance, and Part of Gospel Advance

The Bible calls children a gift from the Lord and the fruit of the womb and inheritance. The propagation of a godly seed and the training of that next generation to love God and serve him is an essential part of the global conquest of the victory of the gospel of the kingdom.

We have to bring our view of children into conformity to God's view of them. We have to live out the implications of the gospel of the kingdom in our families with our children, because they are the fruit of God's blessing and are basic, fundamental to what it means to advance his kingdom in the world.