You might want to add teaching your kids not to assume everyone has their best interest at heart. If a stranger wants to give them a ride, run the other way. If a teacher puts their hand in an inappropriate spot to tell you immediately. If someone tells them that your mommy or daddy was hurt in an accident and they must go with them to the hospital to run away. If somebody has a cute puppy and asks if they'd like to see the rest of the puppies in the car, to run away. Tell them they can trust the policeman, police woman, fireman if they are lost or afraid.
Yes. Teaching the difference between right and wrong is the answer. Critical thinking skills! Moral values are needed. As Jesus taught us, love the sinner enough to admonish /correct them when they are living a sinful lifestyle. We don't hate the person. We hate the sin.
Just make sure they understand they are better than no one simply because they have faith... Try not to let them buy into that whole indwelling spirit crap. You see, I used to think since I was a good Christian boy that was incapable of feeling lust (the hypershaming didn't help either. Don't use shame, it breeds rebellion) and as such when I felt attracted to a woman it was true love. It HAD to be!!!!
Except... That our knowledge does not make us special. We are just as human. Just as capable of evil as anyone. We are sinners through and through and it's fighting our nature that causes us to do some terrible things in the name of Jesus...
This is why I put Him and really only Him at the top. "Additional context" always seems to conveniently justify shitty behavior and very much contradicts who Jesus actually was. He didn't pick a Pharisee to be His disciple. He picked 12 Grade A scumbags who were considered "unclean". He spent time amongst sinners, not surrounded in the comfort of the temple like most modern Christians do today...
He did also speak on the importance of protecting children... But that extends beyond the obvious in that you should avoid raising them to be insecure pius pretenders like I once was...
The whole identity business truly just makes me sick to my stomach. Whatever happened to telling kids to accept themselves for who they are? Instead now it's normal to tell kids as young as you possibly can that infact they were born wrong, they are a complete fluke and really shouldn't exist in the way that they do, all the problems in their life are a result of being born incorrectly, and the only way to fix any of this is through extreme medications and surgery.
The fact that anyone can tell a kid this with a straight face and feel like they are somehow doing the kid a favor is disgusting. Actually I don't even care if it's a kid, the fact that anybody can tell ANYONE even adults this is just plain disgusting. The worst part is the people telling them it are usually doctors that they have been conditioned from a very early age to trust sometimes even more than their own parents.
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You might want to add teaching your kids not to assume everyone has their best interest at heart. If a stranger wants to give them a ride, run the other way. If a teacher puts their hand in an inappropriate spot to tell you immediately. If someone tells them that your mommy or daddy was hurt in an accident and they must go with them to the hospital to run away. If somebody has a cute puppy and asks if they'd like to see the rest of the puppies in the car, to run away. Tell them they can trust the policeman, police woman, fireman if they are lost or afraid.
Yes. Teaching the difference between right and wrong is the answer. Critical thinking skills! Moral values are needed. As Jesus taught us, love the sinner enough to admonish /correct them when they are living a sinful lifestyle. We don't hate the person. We hate the sin.
God's rainbow = 7 colors
LBGTQ+* rainbow = 6 colors
Raise up a child in The Way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Just make sure they understand they are better than no one simply because they have faith... Try not to let them buy into that whole indwelling spirit crap. You see, I used to think since I was a good Christian boy that was incapable of feeling lust (the hypershaming didn't help either. Don't use shame, it breeds rebellion) and as such when I felt attracted to a woman it was true love. It HAD to be!!!!
Except... That our knowledge does not make us special. We are just as human. Just as capable of evil as anyone. We are sinners through and through and it's fighting our nature that causes us to do some terrible things in the name of Jesus...
This is why I put Him and really only Him at the top. "Additional context" always seems to conveniently justify shitty behavior and very much contradicts who Jesus actually was. He didn't pick a Pharisee to be His disciple. He picked 12 Grade A scumbags who were considered "unclean". He spent time amongst sinners, not surrounded in the comfort of the temple like most modern Christians do today...
He did also speak on the importance of protecting children... But that extends beyond the obvious in that you should avoid raising them to be insecure pius pretenders like I once was...
The whole identity business truly just makes me sick to my stomach. Whatever happened to telling kids to accept themselves for who they are? Instead now it's normal to tell kids as young as you possibly can that infact they were born wrong, they are a complete fluke and really shouldn't exist in the way that they do, all the problems in their life are a result of being born incorrectly, and the only way to fix any of this is through extreme medications and surgery.
The fact that anyone can tell a kid this with a straight face and feel like they are somehow doing the kid a favor is disgusting. Actually I don't even care if it's a kid, the fact that anybody can tell ANYONE even adults this is just plain disgusting. The worst part is the people telling them it are usually doctors that they have been conditioned from a very early age to trust sometimes even more than their own parents.