A human being in the early stage of life, created in the image of God, bearing a soul of infinite worth from the moment of conception. Children are a heritage from the Lord and a reward (Psalm 127:3) — not burdens, accidents, or extensions of parental ambition, but sovereign image-bearers entrusted to parents for a season. Scripture calls parents to train, discipline, teach, and love their children, while warning against exasperating them.
CHILD, n. A very young person of either sex, generally applied to the period from birth to the age of puberty. In a Scriptural sense, a child of God is one regenerated by the Spirit and adopted into the family of God. To be childlike is to exemplify the humility and trust that Christ commended.
Children are increasingly viewed as lifestyle choices to be optimized rather than souls to be formed. Abortion denies personhood to children in the womb. The sexual revolution imposes adult sexual ideology on children through school curricula. Gender ideology tells children their bodies are mistakes. Scripture treats children as gifts; modernity treats them as problems to be managed, projects to be improved, or — worst — burdens to be eliminated.
Psalm 127:3 — "Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward."
Matthew 18:3 — "Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
Proverbs 13:24 — "Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him."
Matthew 19:14 — "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."
G3813 — paidion (παιδίον) — little child; also used for spiritual infants in the faith
H3206 — yeled (יֶלֶד) — child, boy; from the root 'to bear or bring forth'
"The way a society treats its children reveals what it truly believes about human dignity, the future, and the nature of life itself."
"To become like a child before God is not regression — it is the highest spiritual posture: dependent, trusting, receptive."