Our children coming out as t***smoral: what to do?
Apr 13, 2015 20:02:25 #
no propaganda please
Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
fiatlux wrote:
My opinion: it is not our purpose or business to make the world a better, safer, place for our children. It is up to us to solely live to honor God.
and when we honor God we ARE making the world a better, safer place for our children. honoring God includes loving our neighbors and helping them be the best people that they can be. That makes it a better place for our children. Honoring God includes teaching our children right from wrong and that gives them the strength and guidance to make the right decisions to lead a moral life, and the ability to reach out in love toward those who need God's love and guidance.
Apr 13, 2015 20:16:37 #
no propaganda please wrote:
and when we honor God we ARE making the world a better, safer place for our children. honoring God includes loving our neighbors and helping them be the best people that they can be. That makes it a better place for our children. Honoring God includes teaching our children right from wrong and that gives them the strength and guidance to make the right decisions to lead a moral life, and the ability to reach out in love toward those who need God's love and guidance.
Perhaps, npp. This was not true for early Christians under Rome. Safe, in my view, as well as certainty, has no place in following Christ. Right and wrong is written, as I see it, on the hearts of all: it is our place to demonstrate the uncompromising and crazy love of Christ to our children. What conscience God has given them be expanded as in Matthew Five and the Beatitudes. A thankless, perilous, mocked, and absurd way to live.
Apr 14, 2015 02:52:11 #
Alicia
Loc: NYC
no propaganda please wrote:
and when we honor God we ARE making the world a better, safer place for our children. honoring God includes loving our neighbors and helping them be the best people that they can be. That makes it a better place for our children. Honoring God includes teaching our children right from wrong and that gives them the strength and guidance to make the right decisions to lead a moral life, and the ability to reach out in love toward those who need God's love and guidance.
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Children should be "guided" and not "taught" to follow our own opinions. What is necessary is to respect our children and accept that they also have minds.
Apr 14, 2015 21:05:01 #
fiatlux wrote:
As "a child's spinning top"? Precisely. ... (show quote)
God gives us free will, but that does not mean he wants us to be stupid and evil. He wants us to be moral. He sets out rules for us to follow. Yes we can and do break the rules. When this life is over we will stand before him and answer for everything.
We are free to live however we want, but freedom is not free. There is a price for everything.
Apr 14, 2015 21:08:30 #
Alicia wrote:
Your children are not your children. They are the ... (show quote)
My dad had that record.
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