The Covenant Home: God’s Ideal Institution for the Nurture of Children (1)
Den Hartog presents the biblical vision of the covenantal family as God's ordained institution for raising children, while acknowledging how sin has corrupted this ideal in both secular and Christian homes. The article emphasizes that Christian parents bear responsibility to nurture children in godly principles and proper development, requiring wisdom, diligence, and recognition of God's sovereign design for family life.
The covenant family was created by God in His infinite goodness and perfect wisdom to be the ideal institution for the nurture of the children. However, marriage and the family were deeply corrupted and troubled by the fall. What God intended to be a place of order, peace, happiness, and love has been ruined by self-seeking, pride, violence, lust, adultery, and the treachery of ungodly men. Many of the world's marriages are torn apart by the great evil of divorce. It is no wonder that such...
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