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10. Peter Enns | God is Not a Helicopter Parent

Language of God

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The Importance of Having Children in the Ancient World

In antiquity one of the I mean the one of the blessings of the Old Testament is having a lot of kids. Why because you got to survive you got a farm and and you need to serve it's for survival. So if you read be fruitful multiply in the context of what it the importance of having children in the ancient world it could be just a reflection of that reality for them It could be. That would be probably a more typical difficult scholarly kind of answer but I'm not just pandering that may not be the only way or the best way to think about it.

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