Is the Bible a good tool to use to lightly teach children about morality, right and wrong and decision making?

Question

I think it's not a place tool to use, some of the parables and stories do make good points. When it's taken as a source of information to use as education in a light manner, like perhaps read alongside Dr Suess, it does contain some very good tales to help kids along with helping others.

However, when it is taken too seriously, when kids are taught to 'believe in it or else', I feel then it is a very dangerous and unhealthy tool. When people start preaching it's the actual word never to be questioned, it gets creepy, and kids begin to unravel and miss the educational points that it contains. Instead of learning from it in a healthy way, they instead develop an unhealthy obsession to preach it to others through fear and guilt trips.

Unhealthy:

"Believe in it or go to hell"..."You're wrong, you need to repent for this book is the truth!'...

Healthy:

"hey, the moral of this bible story was that doing so will result in bad things, its a good parable to learn from"

Answer 1

Damn good point. Cut out the Damnations.

The church is probably wrong about Hell anyway. I believe Satan tricked God and created Hell. But, after Jesus returned to Planet H (heaven), the COG (council of government) disbanded Hell.

Question: Did all Heaven freeze in time 2000 years ago? Of course not. When the Bible was completed and compiled from scrolls in 325AD, It wasn't the end of Jesus and God and Heaven doing things to improve circumstances (do away with Satan's Hell).

Answer 2

All forms of morality between people are finally meant to assist the human species proceed to exist. It must be sparkling that no crew of social animals can tolerate generic robbery, homicide and so on. because people can actual imagine and picture, that is sparkling to human beings that use their brains that there are a selection of different behaviours which aren't any good to the gang. it is the source of all morality and purely about all regulation, the very shown actuality that a number of it were given written down in non secular books does no longer make it god-given, some type of it exists in all societies which include animal societies. the excuses that is written down in books like the Bible are extremely straight forward - it does no longer take rather some intelligence to artwork maximum of those products out even though it does take some. There are some who do no longer own rather adequate intelligence to do it and performance to be informed what they could and can't do. some would have the intelligence, yet under no circumstances actual do the wondering, so as that they ought to income how as well. those who wrote the Bible disliked or were anxious through homosexuality (i'm none to prepared on the conception myself yet - - - ) so as that they wrote it interior the e book. those who won't be able to or do not imagine won't be able to see previous the shortcoming of understanding and prejudice of a few historic clergymen.

Answer 3

Agreed. I don't think the Bible is completely without good teachings *treat others as you want to be treated*. It's just a shame that the only way people can teach others, their children, friends, etc.... is to use threats.

I wonder what those types of people would think of a parent who is trying to teach a child not to steal or lie... used fire as punishment? Like, if every time a child lied, the parent put a cigarette out on their arm..... disgusting, I know... but basically that is the same threat they are using against their own children. I'll make it a little easier.... we'll just lock the kids up in the basement and yell at them thru the door "I love you unconditionally"

Answer 4

All religions are based on belief, guesses and faith, not fact. The chances that any religion or all religions collectively have God's will figured out - that's assuming God even wills people to do anything, is pretty remote. Morality is determined by how civil or barbaric a world you want to live in, at the same time protecting your self from those less civil than yourself. Use your common sense, ask others without an agenda what they feel, and go from there. Don't take anything to an extreme.

Answer 5

I believe the Bible is the best tool to "lightly" teach children about morality..... I believe that the Bible is the only way to know what morality is (even though the Law of Nature does, morality is over ruled by sensuality). I also believe that people who say the "believe in it or else" are weird..... I believe that you should teach children what the Bible says and then allow them to contemplate on the truth of it or not.... our job is to plant seeds not force plants through the ground....

Answer 6

Well, if they don't accept the Bible, and don't accept that Jesus is their personal savior and that he saved them from their sins, yes, they will go to hell. Any person who doesn't do that will.

It's a fact.

But as Christians, we don't ram it down a person's throat that if they do not accept Jesus, they will burn forever. It is a fact, but that would be judging the person. Since we all have sinned, I would be sinful for judging that person.

So, if you see a Christian ramming down a person's throat that they will burn in hell, they most likely don't know what they are doing and should not be considered a Christian.

But anyway, the Bible is a great source for children and growing up. It makes them think about the rest of their lives, and the decisions they should be making.

Answer 7

There is better literature out there, thousands of children's books that are not religious and still carry positive messages. I recommend Aesop's Fables. You should not have to tailor your approach to a book, make it "Bible Lite", in other words, for it to be suitable for instructing a child. It's unnecessary, because there is a lot of secular literature that communicates the same lessons in a more interesting way.

No matter how you present the Bible, the central message is that there is still an omnipotent entity out there that either approves or disapproves of your actions. I think that it is morally and intellectually irresponsible to teach that to a child.

Answer 8

Are you going to pick and choose the stories that you tell children about???
Are you going to tell them about the 2 Kings 2:23 - 24 where God killed 42 children for calling a prophet old baldy?? That right he killed them! Didn't give them a time out, Didn't even spank them! God sent a She bdear to tear them appart! HOW NICE!!

Or are you going to tell them how God slaughtered all of the first born children in Egypt just because he could???

Or are you going to tell them how God wipe dung (CRAP) on peoples faces? Malachi 2:3

Or are you going to tell them how God creates some for heaven and some for hell! That no one can choose anything since your name had to be written in the book of life before the foundation of then world! Romans 9:21 -23, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 17:8, Ephesians 1:4 - 5

All in all this God is evil in its purest form!!!

Answer 9

Yes its a good tool, start with the 10 commandments and go to the book of Proverbs to teach fairness and wisdom.

Answer 10

Using the bible is basically a "it's wrong because I said so" thing. It doesn't teach children to consider the consequences of their actions and make their own decisions about right and wrong. Which is really what they need.