(04-06-2022 11:16 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote:  

(04-06-2022 10:09 PM)BlueDragon Wrote:  Eric, I respectfully disagree with this notion. I'm calling BS on these parents. Most of these parents do not instill Christian values in their kids let alone ask them hard biblical questions if they even go to worship service at all.

I would say that is a pretty harsh and judgmental take to just blindly say all these parents and pastors are just lying about this and all there kids are just spoiled. You can certainly say that about some but clearly that is not the case across the board.

I know I have seen it happen with my own 2 eyes where kids are believers and active in the church but all that changes after they spend some time in a secular college.

Part of the issue is they were taught what to believe but not WHY to believe in it. They were not taught why we have faith in the bible and don't really have answers when push on from all direction as hard as they often are in these settings. Check out Frank Turek and other Christian apologists who deal with young college age kids a lot.

This is a real issue, they are not just making this up and its a lot more complicated that just having spoiled kids. These guys spend a lot of time on these campuses and talking with these students.

At the same time they are dealing with the same issues all young kids in college are dealing with in the temptations of the college party life and hyper sexual lifestyles, plus all the woke marxist lunacy and LGBTQ activists and extremeists. That is a lot to throw on a 19 year olds shoulders with raging hormones and still learning who they are and dealing with their faith being attacked and not really having been prepared for it in their churches who do not teach apologetics along with scripture.

Again, don't take my word for it, check out guys like Frank, Cliff Knechtle and other pastors and apologists who deal with this and talk with these kids daily.

Its a real issue, people are not lying about it.

I'm sure my paint brush was probably too broad. But, my point was the majority of these parents have most likely and I can only go off my personal experiences have never given these kids a strong biblical background. Talk about Apologists, Ravi said if our young people don't start studying the Bible like Muslims study the Koran we will decline to point of irrelevance.

Back on topic. Kids today are not grounded biblically. Catholics are the worst and once again I only say this because a large number of my family professes to be Catholic and they never pick up the bible so they are easily swayed by others doctrines and their standard answer to any religious topic is I'll have to ask Father So&So about it. Clueless.

Parents in this country have failed. I will give you another example of some kids who are poor and didn't have a Dad and didn't grow up in any church. Single mother working with 5 kids and one was in a wheelchair. When asked one day at Supermarket if the they would like to come to church after some hesitation of not wanting to judged by there appearance she said ok and starting attending regularly. These kids soaked up everything and always had questions your comfortable teenager going through the motions of going to church don't ask. All of these kids now read scripture every week. Funny, one day one asked me how to be successful in life and my answer to him was what I was told when I was his age. You have to have the three D's. 1. Desire - you really want it 2. Discipline without this you won't be able to control yourself and make the right adjustments at the most important times 3. Determination - no matter how tough or unattainable you believe something is you just have to keep going and pushing until you see the end.

Clearly we know that is a marathon and you have to train your kids so they will be able to achieve the course.