Did Christian parents just forget to tell their children that Santa or The Bible aren't real?

Question

I think Most Christians were told that the tooth fairy isn't real, but I'm a little concerned about Santa and The Bible.

Answer 1

Well.....the bible is real. you can hold it in your hands so it's real. The story of the bible isn't real. There's no god, Jesus, or anything like that. I'm an atheist but I'm only 12. A lot of people think that people my age have no idea what's going on. that's stupid! My dad's Christian (doesn't live with me) and my mom's spiritual. I choice to be an atheist on my own.

Answer 2

I don't know.. it seems to me that Santa doesn't fit in with Christianity if you ask me.

Personally, I treat Santa, The Easter Bunny, The Tooth Fairy, etc etc as just simple 'fun/imaginative' things for the kids. They're not something to teach the kids that they're "real beyond a shadow of a doubt" etc.. they're just a 'fun' thing.. and if your child comes up and asks, you tell them it's just for fun.

I am a Christian, so I can't say that I agree that the Bible, etc isn't real.. but.. Yah.

Answer 3

No one told you about the amazing things about the Bible being real? The Christian God was very careful to prove Himself when He had the Bible written. He wanted to make sure you would recognize him when he acted. What he does is predict the future. No person on earth, no medium or psychic, can claim the one hundred percent prediction rate of God. God gave names, dates, and places so we can check out history and verify his work. He even gave us the very words someone would say centuries before the fact!

If you were God and you wanted to communicate through a book, you would put things in there only a God could know, such as the future. If you wanted everyone to know that you were going to come in person, you would explain what you were like so you would be recognized. You would put in the city of your birth, where you grew up, what kinds of deeds you would do, your temperament, your purpose, even how you would die.

God did all that in the Old Testament. It was all in written form four hundred years before Jesus came. The New Testament gospels follow Jesus and point out some of the places where He fulfilled the prophecies.

Let me give you an amazing example.

“Daniel 11, written in the 6th century B.C., gives an amazingly thorough account of Alexander’s Grecian kingdom, divided first into four competing factions after his death. It predicts details of the struggle between the Ptolemy and Seleucid empires for a period of 160 years, right down to the advent of the Roman Empire. That is why the skeptics used to claim that the book of Daniel could not have been written before 164 B.C., but now we have proof of a much earlier writing text.

“The prophet Isaiah (44:28) gave the name of a king not yet born and of a kingdom not yet instituted and of an event that would not take place for another 150 years. He predicted that a king named Cyrus would commission the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. Cyrus did come to the throne in Persia, and in the first year of his reign in 538, he issued a decree that the temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt. (See 2 Chronicles 36:22-Ezra 1:1-3. This prophecy described in the Bible is confirmed by the discovery of a Babylonian inscription.)

“Daniel actually gave the time when Christ would come into the world and die. Daniel (9:24) predicted that Messiah would be cut off (die) 483 Hebrew years after the issuing of the Persian decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. Artaxerxes Longimanus issued that decree on March 5, 444 B.C. (Neh. 2:1-8), granting the Jews permission to rebuild Jerusalem’s city walls. This, too, is confirmed by archeological discoveries. Four hundred eighty-three prophetic years (360 days to a year) and seven days later, Jesus was crucified as predicted, How could a prophet accurately predict the date of Messiah’s death hundreds of years before it took place, unless he was the ‘voice’ of God as he claimed?”

Thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, we know with certainty the above prophecies date before the occurrence of actual prophesied events.

He has proven His existence perfectly and wonderfully. The Christian God is the true God.

Answer 4

Yeah, Santa and the Bible, the two myths held back from Christian kids.

Answer 5

A bit spiteful...

I find it funny that you even bothered to ask this question. If someone is Christian, they're not going to tell their kids that the Bible is not real because they believe it is.

Why do you believe the Bible is not real, is not true?

(By the way, I am a Christian.)

Answer 6

The bible yes, Santa I'm still iffy on. At least Santa has some sort of corporeal and natural existance.

Answer 7

You should be concerned about the Bible because you are messing with the Word of God and becoming a stumbling block to little children.

Answer 8

They should tell their children about Saint Nicholas, who was real. And I'm pretty sure the Bible is real, I just held one today.

Answer 9

They're both real