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And what if his daughters grow into adults and refuse to get married then pursue careers instead?

Then he’ll love them. But he won’t lie to them. Because a godly father doesn’t rewrite the standard just because his kids wander from it.

Marriage and motherhood aren’t arbitrary preferences.

They’re creational callings.

“Be fruitful and multiply” wasn’t a suggestion. It was a commission.

So if they reject that design, they’re not breaking his plan. They’re stepping outside of God’s.

And no faithful father celebrates that.

He mourns it. He prays. And he stays the course, because his job wasn’t to affirm his daughters’ feelings. It was to form them for fruitfulness.

God doesn’t adjust the telos of womanhood just because the culture made careers the new golden calf.

And neither should fathers.

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MAHDOOD 5mo ago 💬 1

Then the father isn’t making the choice for his daughters. If they can refuse and take a different path, then the daughters are making the choice.

Contra 5mo ago 💬 1

Exactly. The authority to lead and the freedom to rebel are not the same thing. Parents build the house. Adult children can still choose to walk out of it. But you don’t let them decorate the blueprints at age 12 in the name of “freedom.”

You’re mistaking agency at maturity with a lack of authority in formation.

And that’s how we got a generation of unfathered kids raised by screens and slogans.

MAHDOOD 5mo ago 💬 1

I haven’t made a mistake. I’m just addressing what the post at the top says about him making the choices for his daughters not working and just getting married. I guess you don’t agree with him on that.

Contra 5mo ago 💬 1

Haha. There’s been so much. Sorry, agree on which one?

MAHDOOD 5mo ago 💬 1

Levi said to the OP that he doesn’t get to make the choice of whether his daughters work or get married. Then he replied saying he does get to make that choice for his daughters.

Contra 5mo ago

Ah yes. I think I answered that in one of those notes.