Comments on: Is Sunday School failing?

By: Shep

Shep — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:18:22 +0000

Jason,
I would ask that you pray for your Sunday school teacher. And pray that God will be glorified in him and you. The global warming issue as two opposing sides. One, that man is causing the rise in the earths temperature and two, that the earth goes through this cycle of warming and cooling every millenium or so. I am not an authoritative expert on this matter but I do believe that God is on control of ALL things. From global warming to who’s elected president to how many of my hairs will turn gray this week! LOL Trust in God and He will keep you.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:42:45 +0000

Hi,

I’m 12 years old. I do believe in God, I read the Bible and I go regalarly to Sunday school every week.

But my Sunday school teachers are just wrong or selfish, i’m not sure which. Last week our teacher was talking on an on that global warming is not a biblical prophecy, and there is no evidence to support it and that the covenant with God doesn’t allow another calamity,etc.

From school, and my father’s help, I know more about math and science than this guy, and he just talks nonsense week after week. I traveled to Iceland with my family and have seen the melting glaciers with my own eyes! I’ve been to Alaska and seen the same thing.

My parents always tell me that God speaks in different ways, but I don’t understand why that would include lies.

I have to question everything my Sunday school teachers say, because they don’t tell the truth.

Jason

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:18:09 +0000

Hi Kendra, I understand your perspective about the Sabbath. But in my experience, most Christian churches that worship on Sunday (such as mine) aren’t doing it because they haven’t read the Bible or are ignorant about the Sabbath teachings in the Bible. There are some suggestions in the New Testament of Christians holding services on the first day of the week, and most churches seem to find that doing so does not conflict with the spirit of God’s command.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:17:39 +0000

The 7th Day Sabbath was first mentioned and instituted at creation:

Genesis 2: 1-3

1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

*Also, see Exodus 20:8-11

So, the fact that most people keep the 1st day of the week Holy, may be confusing to many youth who actually read the Bible. Thus putting to question all the other doctrines of the church.

By: Joe McDaniel

Joe McDaniel — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:03:12 +0000

NOWHERE in the Bible does it state or imply that the Earth is six-thousand years old. Such an assumptive assertion is the mere conjuration of ignorant MEN ~ not God. Bible believers have NO IDEA how long Adam and Eve lived in PERFECTION before their “fall”. It could’ve been a day, a month, a year, or FIFTY MILLION YEARS. In Truth, WE DO NOT KNOW; so, WHY must all those fancy-educated doctor-preachers teach such FOOLISH STUPIDITY to their Merchandised Customers? Because that’s obviously what they PAY TO HEAR.

By: Chris Salzman

Chris Salzman — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:55:57 +0000

“They will look and they will think. It is our job to develop a relationship that respects their new found reasoning abilities. We need to guide them to the truth.”

Great point, Albert. Kids tend to pick up on things whether we want them to or not.

By: Albert Morse

Albert Morse — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:53:55 +0000

This makes perfect sense. Based on my unscientific observation and personal experience the american child at 11 and 12 years of age begins to make important religous decisions on his own. They will look and they will think. It is our job to develop a relationship that respects their new found reasoning abilities. We need to guide them to the truth.

Now as far as the geologists are concerned let us remember that Adam was full grown when he was made. There is no reason God could not make the earth at any age he chooses simply by speaking. God can make a ten million year old rock exist instantly simply by speaking it into existance.

By: John Thomas

John Thomas — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:31:12 +0000

In line with what I read in a new book on Amazon, “The Darwin Delusion”, I suspect that we make it harder for well-informed young people to accept the Bible as the inspired word of God when we bring it into scientific disrepute by claiming that “the Bible says” the earth is only 6,000 years old. The Affiliation of Christian Geologists agree, as did Rev William Buckland, first person to name a dinosaur.

How foolish of us to give evolutionists such an easy target with which to discredit Christianity.