We still don't want to call evil 'good' and good 'evil'. We need to know the difference! That takes some measure of maturity, even if our years are few.
Oh my goodness, that is so profound Dave! It sums up so well, all that I have been thinking and feeling these past many months. I could so expound on this - somebody give me a mike, quick, pls!
But then again preaching doesn't help, a good dose of experiential evil in the lof does it. And an opening up of the mind to the spiritual truths of God - maturity, as Dave calls it.
What's 'babylonian' is taking that verse to ungodly extremes, I think.
You mean whacking the daylights out of someone?
Tks for that link, Dave. Everylittle helps, with the young ones.
I wonder if Taylor is still around at BT - he would have passed those tiresome teen years by now! And what a learning experience.
My elder girl was about 5-6 when I became a believer and all I hoped for her then was for her to be a missionary or a pastor's wife! She was, and still is, a poster child for Christendom. But as a mother I could see some major flaws in the design and I did everything, short of taking the rod, to rectify those flaws. No, I didn't yell.
I did it the religious way - scripture and more scripture. I got her bibles - children bibles, youth bibles, bibles for girls, teen bibles, you name it. And Christian books, videos, music and more - till she rebelled againt Christianity - or religion as I now understand it. I became anxious for her. I had been taught in Christendom that you have to pray if you wanted your children to marry
godly spouses. So when your kids are in their pampers or even earlier, you pray not only for your kids but also for their future spouses, and their friends (positive influence...) that God will keep them
pure till their marriage. By then I couldn't keep up with my own prayer list! What if, I thought, my daughter does marry some godly guy and ends up wrecking up the marriage, like Suzanne Hinn ( never mind that she eventually remarried Benny Hinn with great pomp n ceremony ) and some other top names in Christendom? So you can imagine my relief when I stopped by BT and learned the truths of God and how there is nothing we can do one iota to change the will of God. And that we have no free will to do whatever we do either.