It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.
O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.
We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.