If I Were the Enemy...

I just want to posit a theory on Proverbs 22:6.

"Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it."

If this is true, then the opposite would likely be true as well - training up a child in the way he should NOT go. Then even when he is old, he will not depart from it. I bet the enemy knows this scripture. If I were the enemy, I would know the Bible in and out, so I could twist and distort it as much as possible.

And you know that he knows that if he wants to fully deceive God's children, he's got to get them when they're young.

Because when I was young, I was taught that all I had to do was pray the sinner's prayer and that "once I was saved" I was "always saved."

The Cross plus nothing.

It sounds wonderful and hopeful and fantastic, and you rely on those preachers and teachers because "they went to seminary" and you didn't, so you trust them and their knowledge.

But then, if you're like me, you open up your Bible and start to read it more because "that's what I should be doing" and then you start to say, "Hey, wait a second... I thought..." and then you dig around some more, and there's another passage and another passage and suddenly, you're thinking.... "Nahhhh, it's all in my head. My pastor's right."

What I'm getting at is this: if God promises that if we train our kids in the way they should go - HIS WAY - they won't depart from it as adults. The alternative to that is true as well. If they're raised (like you and I were) with inconsistent doctrine and fallacies that are explained by having to twist the scriptures into poetry and excuses that don't even come from scripture (like that pesky Sabbath business - what are we? JEWS? Come on. That all ended at the Cross!), then when they're older, they won't depart from it either.

Open your hearts. Open your minds. Open your eyes. TEST EVERYTHING. ♥