RE: [RR] Compareitive religons merit- any value?

[Andy Burns]

Yes, Jesus did speak in parables to help us understand, but parables they were… to lead to resolution of a life issue, not doctrinal comparisons to cause confusion.   Teaching our children between right and wrong is vastly different than teaching them which church has it right versus not.   We must teach them as we believe, or let the schools and their friends do it for us…. To a unfortunate result…   I was not brought up to understand any doctrine other than what my parents believe, as it should be.  When I got older, I decided to find out not WHAT I believed, but WHY I believed what I believed.    I remember friends in High School who decided they better try every group to find out which one they felt best suited their needs… though we tried to talk them out of it, they tried various denominations, cults and even the occult.  Their excuse was that “well, we need to know what they believe in order to help them” … the BIBLE tells us all we need to know.  We don’t have to jump in a fire to know it’s hot, and I won’t teach my children or my Rangers in that fashion either.   We don’t need to teach them about the lies, we need to teach them about the truth.  God didn’t teach us about sin… Satan did.  J   Blessings,   Parson   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RR] Compareitive religons merit- any value?   In a message dated 6/15/2001 6:22:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, someone writes: Parents and Leaders are to 'train up a child in the way he should go', not offer him a multiple choice test on how he wants to deal with life and the Lord. This will be a definitie stretch for some because it's "outside the box" thinking but...  Consider how Christ taught?  Did he teach "this is the way" or did he teach in parables - comparing different scenarios and situations?   For example, in the story of the good Samaritan  did He say "when you find a guy injured on the side of the road you should help him"?  Or did He offer a set of scenarios and ask which one was the right one?  Additionally, did He offer the one right way the talents should have been handled?  Or did He tell the story of three ways to handle them and ask which was he right way?  What about the parable of sowing the seed?  I recall that He offered several situations and then taught which was right. SNIP  This is why we must train our children to compare everything to the word and not take it at face value.... EXACTLY!!! Michael