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This verse is talking about a child's propensities, not "The Faith." That is eisegeting the text, pure and simple. the Passage is talking about parents coming along side their children and helping them "go" the way the Lord has gifted them. It serves as an admonition as well so that parents do not try to force their child to be something God has not gifted them to be. Every child has leanings and propensities and we should "train them" in their "giftings" so that when they get older they will still be rooted in the training of the parents as well as walking out their God-given gift. I pray this helps.

 

But were they ever there in the 1st place

 

I take that you thought better of what you said. I have said things at times I wish I could take back too.

I don't think it is a stupid idea to study philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history, and language. I made specific exceptions to some. I have problems with paying such a significant amount of money (2000+ per course) for others which are learned just as easily outside of the university by the reading and studying of books. I have problems paying for a degree when the degree is not needed for the job or position. I think practical considerations should be considered before going to college just to go to college.

I do agree with you on the point that when students go off to college, one should not pick a college to make sure beliefs won't ever be challenged. The kids have to leave the house sooner or later and their beliefs will be challenged. People with weak faith will buckle under the weakest challenges to their faith. I have known those in college who withdrew their faith the second they were challenged - didn't even put up a fight. They never discussed their faith with their parents and so they never discussed things with their parents when their faith was challenged. Others were just waiting for the chance to renounce their faith after they left their parents house.

It's sad but sometimes children simply have chosen to reject God. I have a niece who has made the conscious effort to reject God despite the rest of her family and despite her going to a Christian private school when she was young. About the age of 10, she rejected God and made it public to the family. No Christian wants their kid to do this, but I don't think sending their kid to a "safe" college is going to help. The kid has to make their own decision whether to have faith in Jesus or not.

I think parents should choose a college or technical education which will best prepare their kid for what they want to do. And if the kid wants to be a philosophy professor, I guess I would try to find the best philosophy program for them to attend and tell the kid, they have better make nothing less than an A because there is a lot of competition for doctorate programs in philosophy and for positions as philosophy professors. There are worse things for a kid to want to become. (tongue in cheek.)

Marty

 

So a Christian conservative college would be Diversity City?

 

I used to listen to Dennis Prager. One of the things I vehemently disagree with him on is his advice that a high school graduate take a year off before deciding what to do with one's life, including going to college. Travel, explore, get to know yourself, he says. That's got to be the worst advice I've ever heard.

(For the most part I agree with him that colleges are bastions of leftist philosophy.)

 

Throwing awau the Bibler??

 

Holdover form my "tongue talking days"

 

It is indeed a sad day when so called Christian Universities would teach evolution and social morality that agrees with the World and not God!