Have Babies and Don’t Kill Them

Have babies and don’t kill them. That’s a decent summary of the direct commands we have from God before the law is handed down in Exodus. The first and most repeated is the most familiar:Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. (Genesis 1:28)Adam and Eve’s primary work was to fill the earth with images of God. They were of course to be faithful, worshipful, affectionate reflections of God and his glory, but then they were to love each other in a way that multiplied that image a