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The fearful poster earlier should know that if you teach your children about Christ from the beginning, actually [i]believe[/i] the Gospel, and model Christ-like behavior as a parent (and friend, spouse, brother/sister, etc.), [b]the chances of them continuing in the faith are really quite good.[/b] But if you encourage all sorts of "spiritual questioning," which is really just a way to deny Christ, you probably [i]will[/i] end up with who-knows-what.[/quote]

That is actually false info.  People are leaving organized religion and adults are especially leaving fundamentalist religions after being threatened as children by what would await them if they questioned Christ.  Even if the chances were very good, if it still asking a mother to give birth with the threat that her beloved child will go to hell.[/quote]
That is why I said to model Christ-like behavior. It makes a huge difference.[/quote]

How do you know?[/quote]
For one, it's what the Bible says to do. For two, I've seen it work many times in real life. But I don't think kids have any respect for hypocritical parents who drag them to church, preach at them, and then don't live out a life of love, joy and service to the LORD. And I also don't think kids have any respect for parents' religion when those parents don't even believe it enough to defend it but tell their kids to go seek whatever they can find.[/quote]

Do you think parents should force their kids into certain careers?  If not, why should kids be forced into a particular religious belief?[/quote]
Who said anything about being forced into belief? Good parents make sure their kids go to school. And good Christian parents should make sure their kids go to church and learn about Christ. But parents should also make sure that they themselves live deliberate, Biblical Christian lives so that their kids grow up to know how good the LORD is and that their parents trust Him. Kids have a natural yearning for acceptance from the parents. If their parents are loving, kind, gracious, Spirit-filled people, their kids will value the Christian faith in a far different way than if their just given a list of rules or told that all belief is the same and go do whatever they want.[/quote]

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