By Donna
Upon reading “How the West Really Lost God”, an article you may see HERE, I was truly taken aback with this amazing realization: ” family decline… helps to power religious [faith?] decline”. In her book, Mary Eberstadt wrote: “The ‘decline of the natural family’ in the West is not only the effect of the loss of faith, but the cause as well: the ongoing deterioration of the natural family has both accompanied and accelerated the deterioration in the West of Christian belief.” I had often seen it the other way around: that increasing secularization leads to reduced marriages and birth rates, but now I see how it works reciprocally. Satan must clearly understand the relationship between these two factors as he continues to deceive the Christian community with increased options of contraceptives, abortion, same-sex marriage, divorce, etc. leaving the international community abused by one-child policies, morning after pills, condom distribution and abortion subsidies. All of these tactics are designed to attack the monogamous family unit created by God to be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over the earth. Ultimately this attack is also an attack on faith.
After Eve sinned in the garden, choosing to obey the serpent instead of God, one of her punishments was that she would have increased sorrow and sorrow in conception. There would also be conflict between her and her husband, in her attempt to desire (rule) over her husband… However, the grace and love of God overcome the curse, making it possible for two people to live together for many years in a fruitful relationship. I thank God that He has extended His loving mercies upon us and enabled my husband and I to live together for 35 years, and blessed us with 8 wonderful children… I can testify that at the appearance of every new child, with our unity as a couple has increased, our love for each other and for God, as well as our Faith in Him. After all it was through the birth of a child, and a Family, that Salvation and Grace came into the world. Isaiah 9:6.
Donna with her husband Jorge and 8 children: Emanuel, Gabriel, Gloria, Cristiana, Jason, Joana, Philip and Benjamim