non-denom christian wrote:J_B wrote:n_d_c,
I could bite and take you to task for your post but after telling those who are willing to participate in a discussion as adults how much I appreciate their efforts, I refuse to stoop to your level. As I said above,
Quote:one can search and make life decisions on what one finds but to suppose one's personal truth has meaning for another is specious.
JB,
I quoted the Holy Bible. I want you to know, it is YOUR responsibility to teach your daughter and because of what you stated, it seems to me you are failing as a teacher in that respect. It sounds to me, you will scorn her for any decision she makes if it is not what YOU believe.
What do you mean "stoop"? The way I see it, you are not higher than me, and therefore "to stoop" is irrelevant.
Why would you take scripture as my being immature anyway?
n_d_c,
Of course you were quoting the bible. Any four year old can parrot the alphabet but they haven't a clue what the letters mean. Any child can parrot scripture, but quoting scripture to make a point demonstrates the level of a spiritual child. People oftentimes stoop to speak to children, I chose not to do so.
I'm not sure how you got what you did from my post. The conclusion you drew was the opposite of the one intended. Our children are taught the tenets of all the worlds religions and choose for themselves how much of each makes sense to them. The point made was my daughter's, not mine. She was making HER point that she was not convinced the historical Jesus ever lived. It has nothing to do with what I believe. I admired her decision to stay outside our line, my scorn was in not understanding what she was doing. At first I thought she was refusing to participate (which would also have been her choice, but as the teacher I would have been irritated if she was just pulling a stunt). Once she explained why she had gone to the far left I was quite proud of her ability for independent thought.
You are correct, it is MY responsibility to teach my daughter and I'm teaching her to be an adult. One who can think for herself and not depend on Solomon or parroting scripture from any source to make her point.
I take particular notice of your reference to P: 13:24 (I think you were mistaken in attributing it to 5:24) Any supposed adult who advocates hitting children to keep them in line should be admitted to a lion's den at dinner time. Only a child would hit another child and feel justified in doing so.
I don't know if you have children n_d_c, but sitting in judgement on someone else's parenting, when you seem to be extremely childish and misguided is another sign of spiritual immaturity.
