Instead of making up warm and fuzzy mixed with hellfire. Maybe you honestly owe your kids an apology for bringing them into this world, and that's why you lie?
2006-06-06 05:50:06 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess I should preface everything I say with "I have read the Bible" because critical reading doesn't occur to many Christians.
2006-06-06 05:56:19 · update #1
as you know im an atheist father of a 3 year old,
we have wondered my wife and i how to treat the "truth"
when i take my son to the zoo i tell him the animals names
in time we will teach him about what evolution is and how it works,
we will also teach him about greek mythology, roman mythology, and christian mythology,
that my son know that there are people who think god made the animals and that this is a mythology he must know and understand,
he must be taught how to study evidence and decide for himself, and not believe in evolution cause "will mommy and daddy are evolutionists so i am also"
when my son says "father, there is evidence to suggest man evolved from a common ancestor, and today in science class we looked under a microscope, and that stuff now makes sense"
did i teach my son truth, or did i simply not indoctrinate him with the mythology of the decade, for this time and place, christianity
2006-06-06 06:02:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Your idea is wonderful, and in the best interests of children and mankind. The only ones served by anti-God lies are Satan and Satanic agents (witting and unwitting).
So what is the TRUTH about hellfire? "Hell" is the common grave of mankind, so everyone who dies goes there to await resurrection on the last day.
(Acts 24:15) there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous
(John 11:24) Martha said to him [Jesus]: “I know he [my brother] will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
Hell is NOT someplace/something we need to fear; there is no suffering in the grave.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Ezekiel 18:4) The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.
The bible says that Hades ("hell") will be done away with:
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire
Faithful, patient Job requested that he go to "hell":
(Job 14:13) O that in She´ol you would conceal me
Even Jesus was in "hell" for three days:
(Acts 2:27) you will not leave my soul in Hades ["hell"]
Jehovah's Witnesses are happy to share truths from the bible with any sincere person.
http://www.watchtower.org
2006-06-08 12:41:24 · answer #2 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is that such a wild idea? The way I have always raised my kids is you dont lie. Of course people dont think the same but me personally believe that a parent is the last person who should lie to their children. I have never lied to my kids about anything . Hell if a child cant trust his own parents to tell him the truth about things how do you think he is gong to be?
2006-06-06 13:05:26 · answer #3 · answered by hersheynrey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, I hate being hamstrung when talking to my roommate's 11 year old son. I can't say a lot of what I'd like to because she's involving him in a fantasy world. She still has him believing in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and a benevolent God. She wants him to be a "soldier for the Lord". It is discouraging, since he is a bright kid.
2006-06-06 13:00:46 · answer #4 · answered by Rev. Still Monkeys 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you dont tell your children the truth because first you are trying to protect them and not scare them to death imagaine explain gravity to a kid they wont understand it you cant explain the laws of physics to a kid , they are children personally one thing i believe you shouldn't tell a kid is that a storch droped them off on your dorrstep , religon and bible stories are hard to understand you cant go explaining the crusification of juses to a 3 year old
parents who love their children make a nice storty why does it matter the children learn it when they get older anyway no harm done!!!!!! - if a child wants to believe in santa and the tooth fairy let them because well you tel them the truth youa re killing their inner child adn imagination which is very precious to a kid!!!!!
2006-06-06 13:01:49 · answer #5 · answered by shawty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i have my first kid, i'm not gonna stop him from believing in santa, sorry.
kids need nice fantasies.
no worries, i won't make up horror-stories with hell etc in it. that seems kinda unfair to do to a little innocent human-being.
(i remember that i read about Shirley Temple, that she stopped believing in Santa at a very early age, because she met a Santa in a shopping-mall, and Santa asked for her authograph...so when kids will find out the hell-story is also just a lie, it will devastate them...)
2006-06-06 13:40:10 · answer #6 · answered by Thinx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And a text that has been re-written so many time...how do you use that statement? I know what it would mean to me...there is nothing critical in your thinking if that is the extent of the mind's expansion.
2006-06-06 13:02:29 · answer #7 · answered by jmmevolve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth will set and make u Free and the children also.
2006-06-06 12:57:11 · answer #8 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth to one person is not teh truth to the next. That said when the child is old enough they can make the're own interperation to what truth is.
For me truth is science, faith is something else.
2006-06-06 12:55:52 · answer #9 · answered by A_Geologist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you wan't your children to know the truth u must read them the Bible!!
2006-06-06 13:00:07 · answer #10 · answered by country girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋