The short answer to the question: where do babies come from is God. He is the creator of all things. That’s why the Psalmist states, “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139:13) We are all created with God’s personal touch.

From the very beginning of creation, it was God’s intent for a man and a woman, the two genders he created, to come together in the unity of marriage and have a family.

This might surprise you, but making babies was actually God’s first command to Adam and Eve right after he created them. He “blessed them and said, ‘Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it.” (Genesis 1:28)

Sadly, in a world full of contraceptives and abortion, marriage and children are seen more like burdens instead of God’s blessing.

I know this is culturally controversial, but it is biblically correct. Our lives should be lived by the truth of God’s word rather than by our feelings which are so fickle. God is the absolute truth we need. It’s why Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

So, what does God say about families and babies?

Here are five biblically correct truths about marriage and babies.

Marriage, between a man and a woman, was designed by God.

Jesus said, “God made them male and female ‘from the beginning of creation. ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.” (Mark 10:6-9) 

Marriage is God’s plan to fill the earth to display his image. 

God told Noah the exact same thing he told Adam and Eve. He “blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.” (Genesis 9:1)

Marriage is an example of the relationship between Christ and his church.

The Apostle Paul reminded us of this when he wrote to the church in Ephesus. He said, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.” (Ephesians 5:25-27)

God wants more children, not less of them.

The prophet Malachi reminded us of this when he said, “Didn’t the Lord make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his. And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth.” (Malachi 2:15)

God says that children are a blessing and a reward from God, not a burden on your life.

Psalm 127:3-5 tells us that “Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him. Children born to a young man are like arrows in a warrior’s hands. How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them!”

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