and denying them access to any thing that conflicts with the teachings of the bible?
2007-01-05 05:36:19 · 38 answers · asked by Wanda W 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Never! I get your sarcasm and I like it.
2007-01-05 05:39:26 · answer #1 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 4⤊ 5⤋
Start teaching them the day they are born. I read an article on mothers of Japan and in the article the women started teaching the children arithmetic the day they were born by counting out the toes on the children. The women would take the toes one by one in their fingers gently pulling on the digits of hand and foot while counting off the numbers verbally. That was a start. The children learned their numbers far quicker than those in the western world.They were more adept mathematically than their counterparts in the western world.
This is a good example of teaching your children what is important to you. If babies will learn arithmetic by their mothers constant attention then you can be sure that your children will learn about the Christ with your God given attentions as soon as they are born.
I wish you well in your teachings.
2007-01-05 05:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by the old dog 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all NEVER deny them access to other information.
Ignorance is the worst enemy of truth.
Start early like at age 3 or 4. Tell them Bible stories before bed. Expose them to the truth. Be knowledgeable about other religions so you can answer their questions with knowledge and truth not guesses and miss information.
No one should try to defend their faith without knowledge.
2007-01-05 05:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by L Strunk 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From birth. Let me remind you however that you can't protect them from the influences of the world around them forever, even if you home school them.Eventually they will have to make their own choice as to whether they believe and accept Jesus as their own personal Savior. Train them in the way they shall go and if they should stray as an adult we have the promise that they will will return to it. A good example is Billy Graham's son, Franklin.
To deny them access to anything that conflicts with the teachings of the bible is near next to impossible because we live in world that conflicts with the Word of God. Free will is given to our children just as God has given us free will. I have three adult children who were raised strictly in the faith, and they aren't bad people now that they are adults but each has gone their own way for a time and I realize now that they must learn about life and God in their own way, trusting God to complete the work that He began in them as children.
2007-01-05 05:55:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Age 5. You don't need to deny them access to anything that conflicts with the teachings of the bible. That would be impossible. You'd have to jump in a spaceship with them and launch to a space colony somewhere. All you have to do is show them the world and all its emptiness along with the word of God to bring them up in the faith.
Peace.
2007-01-05 05:42:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
How about giving him an education based on 'actual knowledge' and civil human values and let him consider the validity of supernatural concepts when his mind is developed enough to view them objectively. What you are proposing is brain washing. If he grows up and concludes independently that christianity is wrong you need to have a good close look at your beliefs and how you got them.
2007-01-05 05:50:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was 4 or 5 when i picked up a book with pictures of abraham offering his son for a sacrifice. i couldnt read but i was just learning.
No matter what you try to HIDE from your children it will be found out and be introduced to him/her. i was sheltered from religion and the world and yet all the evil of the world was allowed to persuade me. There may indeed BE GREAT wicked things in my family history. I still learn of them as i grow older.
On the other hand by teaching your children all manner of doctrines and dogmatic conflicts you expose him/her with truths that exist that your own beliefs may be proven Wrong and not fully truthful.
I believed Everything I was taught when i became a christian. with time I found out that everything had contradictions and it caused me much turmoil and tears to ask God what truth was!
NO ONE has Ownership of the truth, NO not ONE church or religion. God is the only one that doesnt change.
2007-01-05 05:42:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
let me tell ya something about religious conditioning during early childhood.
it's damaging. it's mental abuse. it undermines the child's natural intellect and inhibits creative thought and free will. don't do it. if you MUST foist your religion onto your children at least wait until they're at least 9 or 10 years old so they have some idea as to what reality is before you frighten and confuse them with myth and hell threats.
the Christian condition of my early childhood caused me all kinds of mental/emotional problems and i still resent the long arduous journey to sanity i was forced to undergo just to be able to live a decent life.
2007-01-05 05:47:43 · answer #8 · answered by nebtet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Birth - keep them ignorant from the start.
The question sounds sarcastic and I truly hope it is since religious indoctrination is a kind of mental child abuse. Though some of the things theists come out with...
2007-01-05 07:18:23 · answer #9 · answered by TRITHEMIUS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...I do detect sarcasm, but I'll answer as if it were a serious question. From birth to the first question and "don't" to the second. If they are firmly rooted in the Bible and have experienced a relationship with God, no other teachings will shake them.
2007-01-05 05:43:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
13/14 but teach them about other religions and let them make up there own mind no matter what it is, be it Christianity, Athiest/Satanism, Buddist, Wiccca, Pagan, Muslem, Devil Worship, anything It's their own choice to make.... Satanism and devil woship are not the same thing Satanism is philosophy, based an a man named satan not the devil, it more closely resembles Athiest
2007-01-05 05:44:49 · answer #11 · answered by TC 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋