It’s About the Kids

Let’s say that you are a commited secular humanist…….a functional atheist. You believe in mankind and science. You believe that our physical world is all that we have. You believe that when you die……..the chemical reactions that run your brain end, the lights just go out, and there is nothing. Because this world is all that you have, you work tirelessly to save it…….and that is noble. We all owe you a debt of gratitude for your work…..especially on the environment.

The down side is that if you are wrong…….if the Bible is correct…….you will, at best, miss out on paradise. And the worst case scenario, for you, is pretty scary. But, that is your call. I disagree with you……..but I can respect your position. Right or wrong……..it is intellectually honest.

But what about your children? What are you teaching them? Children naturally follow their parents. There are a few rebels in every generation; but, for the most part, if you are liberal, your children will be liberal, if you are conservative, your children will be conservative. If you are a secular humanist/atheist, your children will probably follow you down that path.

And this is fine……..if you are right.

But, what if you are not right?

You may be teaching them an ideology that will not serve them……..in the long run.

I taught my children that the only path to the father……and paradise……..is Jesus. If my teaching was incorrect, they will try to follow his teaching…….to love God and man……and it will not take them to paradise. They will have wasted their time, their effort, and their love……if it is even possible to waste love. And, ultimately, they will end up in the same place as you and me……pushing up daisies.

But, if your teaching is incorrect, where is it leading your children?

I have always said that if my children do something wrong that is contrary to my teaching and example, that failure is on them. But, if they do something wrong by following my teaching and example………that failure is my fault.

I will be blunt.

If you teach your children to be secular humanists……..to deny God……….and if you are wrong……..if paradise and hell are real……..you are responsible for what their eternity turns out to be.

The greatest responsibility that we have as parents is to live our lives, by teaching and by example, in such a way that our children will wind up in a good place.

You may not believe………that is your call. But, please, expose your children to the teaching of Jesus……the teaching of love……..then let them decide.

“Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

Jesus,ESV

Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Solomon,ESV

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Jesus, ESV

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

James, ESV