Sorin, I just sat my husband down to talk about this very topic yesterday... (I see how the spirit has been stirring about this same topic in each of our hearts at the same time! AMAZING!!
)I too have been wondering about all of these things:
-Should we allow to our precious 8 yo son to be around "the church/ christians/babylon the great whore/the throne of satan/ amongst those whom are blind and don't want to change? And if so, what effect will this have on our son? (We have already come out of the 'church'); if we don't allow him around these 'believers', then how will that effect him? (Even our home school support groups are made up of mostly of christians. We have nothing in common with these people other than home schooling issues.) To be quite honest here; I have never seen the disparity of not fitting in as I have been experiencing at this time in my life; plus, I have been 'ostracised' more by believers/christians than any other group of people in my entire lifetime; they have brought more hardships into our lives than you will ever know! I personally can handle it, however, I'm very concerned for my sweet Daniel during these impressionable years
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Also, I am torn between these two verses that state: (2Tim. 3:5) ...'having a FORM of Godliness; but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.(Would this not be Christians?) If so, then that cuts out any church going activities with christians, b/c alot of events are held at churches nowadays that we must stay away from.
Then the other verse that states that... 'it is better to hear of Jesus than to not hear of Him at all'. I am torn as to wether to allow my child to be around these deceived people, since they do teach about Jesus and to just keep safegarding and filtering all of their errors everyday of his life? (I don't want to influence him to be negative thinking either.)
So I guess that we are not to even eat with these people? I know that we are to be 'in the world, but not of the world', so how does all of this work together???
- now we are having a paradigm shift; is he better off being around non-believers or is he better off being around christians or neither? Is he left to live a lonely life as a child (since I know of no child of his age that is believing as he does
? It doesn't seem quite fair for him to loose out on having other children his age in his life right now (they really want nothing to do with us b/c we don't believe as they do), especially when his/our family members have ostrasiazed (sp) him to where he is already lonely.
Sorry for the emotional run on, I just need some answeres here. Thanks guys.