Question about answering questions (just read!)?

Question

Ok, I really don't feel like looking up the versus, but I will if I have to.

Anyway, bilically speaking, children are supposed to go to there fathers to answer any qustions about religion, God, the church, etc. so isn't really going against that to answer there questions here? I know many of you seem like "by the book", so why not just tell them to ask there parents? It probably won't get you any points, but is helping save a soul really about personal gain?

Billy, that is true with other adults, but guiding the children is the parents job.

Wayne-- bilically fathers are the "spiritual head" of there house hold. Children are (biblically) supposed to go to them. so if we answer a childs question, we are going around that, and doing the job of there own father.

sugar-- If the kid doesn't know any better shouldn't we help to guide them?

Maybe he did zatte, and thats why he told children to go to there fathers! ;)

Answer 1

Yes, in a perfect world we should be able to go to our fathers with our questions, but in a world where fathers so often are NOT the spiritual leaders of their families, that is often pointless. In the time that the Bible was written, fathers spent time at the synagogues talking with scholars and learning from the scriptures (it's not like they had a copy of the Bible at home). Biblically speaking, the point was that we should look to our own personal spiritual leaders for advice and guidance.

Answer 2

Ummm...
Last year in the united states more children were born outside of wedlock than inside the bonds of holy matrimony.

It is quite possible many of these children don't have a father at home to go to.

I know the perfect world of christianity makes for good reading and wishful thinking, but reality sets in eventually and people gotta do what people gotta do.

Children need guidance. Yahoo! Answers has proved little else other than that.

Answer 3

Take wisdom where you can get it.

Sadly, being from the South, I have seen many cases of the blind leading the blind in the Protestant religion. My wife's father was best friends with their pastor.... should have been a great circle of love and wisdom for her. Nope. Dad was cruelly abusive, even while barking out verses to justify his evil. The Pastor was so smoking high from his loud-mouthed position of authority that he only fueled the fire with more and more Jehova smackdown talk of sparing rods and spoiling precious children.

Why don't they teach these A****** that love is the greater power, that anger unleashed on a child is sin?

Me, I'm on the side of the child. If someone online can be helped by some stranger's advice, then that stranger must be of God.

Answer 4

There aren't suppose to be any children on here, if you read the community guidelines you would know that you're suppose to be 13 or older. By then if they are on here, asking those types of questions then it's not our fault. Why? because they are old enough, and have their parents permission to be on here so it's not our resposibility to seek parental permission.

Better yet here is what it says

Age Restriction
Yahoo! is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users, particularly children. For this reason, parents of children under the age of 13 who wish to allow their children access to the Service must create a Yahoo! Family Account. When you create a Yahoo! Family Account and add your child to the account, you certify that you are at least 18 years old and that you are the legal guardian of the child/children listed on the Yahoo! Family Account. By adding a child to your Yahoo! Family Account, you also give your child permission to access many of the Services including email, message boards, and instant messaging (among others). Please remember that the Service is designed to appeal to a broad audience. Accordingly, as the legal guardian, it is your responsibility to determine whether any of the Services and/or Content are appropriate for your child.

So there it is by the book per say.......

Answer 5

If your father was clued up on it fine... but the Word tells us that DAD has given to us pastors, teachers, evangelists etc to help along the way and never forget His Holy Spirit... I wouldn't suggest anyone really ask their parents... and saving a soul is a personal gain for them..not me..my mansion won't get any bigger my eternal life won't get any longer...

Answer 6

it doesn't say anywhere that you can only ask your parents - if you remember Yeshua Messiah took off from his parents when they were on a trip once, and when they went back to find Him, He was teaching at the Temple as a child.
Just because someone is a parent doesn't mean they know. Especially in religion - where it is vital to study the Word itself.

Answer 7

You are kidding right?

It won't save my soul to ask someone other than my father religious questions as MY religion happens to be the correct one. So no favours for saving my soul okay?

Besides, some people cannot ask their fathers. They are dead, or they never knew them.

Answer 8

If that is the case, then the person asking the question of someone other than his father is the one that isn't "going by the book" by ASKING the question. Christians are taught to share their faith, so when they are asked a question and they answer it, they are doing what they are taught to do.

Answer 9

Since when is it MY job to save someone else's soul? My only duty is to myself and my family. The reason people answer questions regardless of who asked them is that they have been asked. Isn't worse to ignore someone looking for answers?

Answer 10

Somewhat. But we have spiritual fathers as well. We (the redeemed) are all in the Body of Christ at different levels of knowledge & at different points in our walk.