{"id":387,"date":"2013-06-03T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordproject.org\/news\/?p=387"},"modified":"2013-06-11T01:46:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T01:46:56","slug":"387","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"The importance of families…"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Donna<\/em><\/p>\n

Upon reading “How the West Really Lost God”, \u00a0an article you may\u00a0see HERE<\/a>,\u00a0I was truly taken aback\u00a0with this amazing realization: ” family decline… helps to power\u00a0religious [faith?] decline”.\u00a0In her book, Mary Eberstadt wrote: “The ‘decline of the natural family’\u00a0in the West is not only the effect of the loss of faith, but the cause as\u00a0well: the ongoing deterioration of the natural family has both\u00a0accompanied and accelerated the deterioration in the West of Christian\u00a0belief.”\u00a0I had often seen\u00a0 it the other way around: that increasing secularization\u00a0leads to reduced marriages and birth rates, but now I see how it works\u00a0reciprocally.\u00a0 Satan must clearly understand the relationship between\u00a0these two factors as he continues to deceive the Christian community with\u00a0increased options of contraceptives, abortion, same-sex marriage, divorce, etc.\u00a0leaving\u00a0 the international community abused by one-child policies, morning\u00a0after pills, condom distribution\u00a0 and abortion subsidies.\u00a0 All of these\u00a0tactics are designed to attack the monogamous family unit created by God\u00a0to be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over the earth. Ultimately this attack is also an attack on faith.<\/p>\n

After Eve sinned in the garden, choosing to obey the serpent instead of\u00a0God, one of her punishments was that she would have increased sorrow and\u00a0sorrow in conception. There would also be conflict between her and her\u00a0husband, in her attempt to desire (rule) over her husband…\u00a0However, the\u00a0grace and love of God overcome the curse, making it\u00a0 possible for two\u00a0people to live together for many years in a fruitful relationship. I thank\u00a0God that He has extended His loving mercies upon us and enabled my husband and\u00a0I to live together for 35 years, and blessed us with 8 wonderful children…\u00a0I can testify that at the appearance of every new child, with our\u00a0unity as a couple has increased, our love for each other and\u00a0for 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<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Donna<\/a>

Donna with her husband Jorge and 8 children: Emanuel, Gabriel, Gloria, Cristiana, Jason, Joana, Philip and Benjamim<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Donna Upon reading “How the West Really Lost God”, \u00a0an article you may\u00a0see HERE,\u00a0I was truly taken aback\u00a0with this amazing realization: ” family decline… helps to power\u00a0religious [faith?] decline”.\u00a0In her book, Mary Eberstadt wrote: “The ‘decline of the natural … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordproject_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordfree.net\/news2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}