“The dual ordinance—the institution of marriage, and birth from a mother—is therefore the foundation on which antirevolutionary politics stands first.” — Abraham Kuyper
Revolution disregards God's rules. Reformation seeks to conform our current situation to God's standards. Marriage and childbirth are the cornerstones of society. God gave the order to rule and subdue the earth and the means of being fruitful and multiplying to accomplish it.
"The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it." — G.K. Chesterton
Anyone trying to remake the world in their own imagination must clash with the existence of marriage and childbearing. It defies tyranny. It generates allegiances stronger than any tax. It creates eternal souls and internal loyalties beyond the scope of the State.
"The founding of a family is the personal adventure of a free man... The act of founding the family, I repeat, was an individual adventure outside the frontiers of the State" — G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
In the beginning, God established marriage and introduced it as a covenant reality.
Genesis 2:23-25
And Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
In marriage, a man and woman can be naked before each other and in the presence of God without shame in any direction.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Sin did not do away with marriage and childbearing, but it did change it. An adversarial vibe would now accompany all births. Childbearing was now a battleground.
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
Mothering was made more painful and marriage was made more difficult. The two cornerstones of dominion were compromised by the introduction of sin.
Genesis 3:20
Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
But the Gospel promised a snake Crusher and belief in that Gospel would save marriages and motherhood. It redeemed the sins and saved the sinners. It held Adam to Eve and her children his covenant with God.
1 Corinthians 11:8-11
For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
While woman was made for man, all men now come from women. Where women are honored and cared for children are born and brought up in their father's house by his wife.
"Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father." — G. K. Chesterton
All men are made by their mothers. All of his first conceptions center around her. He is conceived in her womb, nursed at her breast, and raised on her hip. But she is loved and cared for in her husband's house.
"What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible." — G. K. Chesterton
God made men to rule. They are dominant. When they are absent or abdicating, their absence rules. That empty chair at the dinner table looms largest. A man's abdication confronts the family head on. Matriarchy is not the rule of women, but the rule of bad men. In other words, matriarchy is merely pathological patriarchy. Feminism is effeminacy.
The family is God's plan A. It is marriage and motherhood in one. Family is a sine qua non. Anyone who opposes it, opposes God and the advancement of His Kingdom.
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