The DNA paternity test is a molecular methodology used to determine if two individuals are biologically bound or not. This process of comparing the genetic code of people was created by the British geneticist Alec Jeffreys in 1985 in the University of Leicester in England.
Since its creation this test has been used by judges to clarify the doubts in cases when men refuse to accept paternity over children that are supposedly theirs. When the test indicates so, there’s no way to deny being the biological father, for the scientists ensure that the test has a 99,99% reliability rate.
True paternity however, goes much beyond the simple acceptance of getting a woman pregnant. It is not enough to assume being the biological father of the newborn. After the birth of the child, the father must care for it, and together with the mother must provide physical, emotional and spiritual support till the child reaches the majority age, and even beyond.
What would reveal a paternity test that could measure the care offered to our children while growing up; a test that would include the amount of the physical, emotional and spiritual condition of our children?
The word of God attributes to the father the tremendous responsibility of being the provider and teacher of his children. Alone he will never succeed in fulfilling it. More than the indispensable help from his wife he will need the fundamental help from the heavenly Father to accomplish it.
One of the biggest challenges of my life has been to take this true broader paternity test. Having to teach my own daughters, identifying in their behaviour my own behaviour mistakes and having to correct in them what was also wrong in me. Only accepting the heavenly Father’s paternity and correction over me, was I able to assume the ture paternity over my daughters to healthily raise them.
Alleluia, with God we can be true fathers!
- What physical, emotional and spiritual care did you receive from your father?
- How do you imagine the ideal father?
(To teach your children, Ephesians 6:4 / To lead your children, 1 Timothy 3:12)
Commissioner Torben Eliason is the Territorial Commander of the Southern Africa Territory.