"That would be the exact point"I was agreeing with you.........Frank
This is comment I made on the other thread, but would probably fit well here..........."There is no "age of accountability,' in the New Testement. According to Jewish law, the age which a young boy became a man was 13 and a young girl 12. This is when they celebrate their Bar Mitzvah. At this age they become responsible for their own actions. In the New Testement, their is not a single example of a child "coming to Christ", only adults. One could mention "household salvation,' which is typically mentioned in this discussion, but that proves nothing and would be an argument from silence. One cannot build a theology or a doctine on no Scriptures. Therefore, children , up to a certain age, must be considered innocent. Evangelicals encourage very young children to get "saved.' Catholics baptize thier babies to save them from Limbo(even the Catholics did not want to argue that children go to hell so they created limbo) Given what Scripture does say and given the attributes and nature of God, the better assuption is that children are innocent and therefore go to heaven if they die, this makes more Biblical sense. Only doctrines of men would contradict this." .......brother Frank
Hi Frank...
I was agreeing with you.........Frank
_________________Christopher
Hey CHris
However, I can't think of any "secure" believers (if that makes sense) who "fell away" due to education, the "secular" environment in the school/workplace, etc..
Hi everyone,Chris, about this,"...and then point (or have someone else point) to education as the "cause." I think that the root cause is something else."We have been discussing something similar in [url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=33016&forum=48&start=10&viewmode=flat&order=1]this thread[/url].In the book we are talking about, the author puts forward that both Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were once Christians and had expressed strong Christian ideas in their writtings. In the case of Engels, he says that his faith was severely shaken by a Theologian named Bruno Bauer. He qoutes Bauer from a letter he had written to a friend:"I deliver lectures here at the university before a large audience. I don't recognize myself when I pronounce my blasphemeies from the pulpit. They are so great that these children, whom nobody should offend, have their hair standing on end. While delivering the blasphemies, I remember how I work piously at home writting an apology of the holy Scriptures and of the Revelation. In any case, it is a very bad demon that possesses me as often as I ascend the pulpit, and I am so weak that I am compelled to yield to him... My spirit of blasphemy will be satisfied only if I am authorised to preach openly as professor of the atheistic system."This man admits to pronouncing blasphemies so great that the litlte ones hearing him have their hair standing on end.The Lord Jesus warned about scandalizing the litte ones that [b]do[/b] beleive in Him(Mark 9:36,42). According to the greek dictionary, that is what the word means that is translated [i]offend[/i] in that passage.It defines it more fully this way:G4624σκανδαλίζωskandalizōskan-dal-id'-zoTo scandalize; from G4625; to entrap, that is, trip up (figuratively stumble [transitively] or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure): - (make to) offend.The New Testament warns about the serious nature of teaching and setting forth doctrine and I do not think this would exclude teaching and education in general, especially if it includes lies and deception, wordly philosophy and criticism, and whatever else that can be concocted in order to [b]sow doubts into the minds of others about the Word of God[/b].It was the express and exact purpose and tactic of Satan to do just that in the garden when he asked, hath God said?The root cause of any of our spiritual maladays may be more complicated than one thing. While that may be the case, we have need of being vilgilant to gaurd against what we know can make us sick, in our spirits.
_________________Christopher Joel Dandrow