Is it imperative that you as a Christian have as many babies as possible in order to beat the Muslims?

This is a live conversation today. Some out there in the Christian world have emphasized

that our duty is to win

some kind of civilizational battle against Islam and other ill forces in our world. I agree that Christians

celebrate the gift of family and do all we can to love children and train them in the Christian

faith. But I'm going to offer a different take today on grace and truth. Welcome to the

podcast. My name is Owen Strand. I'll be your host. Please subscribe to this podcast on all relevant

platforms. Today on grace and truth, I want to enter into a live conversation and I want to give

you a bunch of thoughts, 10 thoughts. So my norm for grace and truth is four thoughts or five thoughts

or something like that.

Today I have 10 and I want to tick through them in rapid fire form.

I want to say this from the outset.

This is a lively debate and it's a good faith debate and it's one I want to enter in in order to try to help people

because I sense that a good number of folks out there are hearing

that it is their duty that they must get married and have as many babies as they possibly can,

and that our hopes are really pinned on that emphasis.

And I want to give you a different hope.

I want to put your eyes on a different horizon today through some biblical

consideration. So 10 thoughts about this conversation as to whether we are supposed to have

as many babies as possible to beat Islam or secularism or wokeness or whatever ill force is in view.

First thought, Christians love the gift of life. We are pro-life. We know that in Genesis 1,

God does not create an atmosphere of death. God creates an atmosphere of life. He creates

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