Bible causes aggression in kids?

[Anthony!]

We have been unpacking some more after our move. My son is 10 years old now. He opened a box which was in storage for quite some time. In it was a toy sword which I bought a few years ago for him to use as a prop for a Bible-based play.

Well, tonight he came into my office and proceeded to hack away at me with it. He ran me through, and drew it out to dismember one of my arms. He then cut my throat and finally decapitated me. He smiled the whole time.

I looked at him in astonishment, and queried him in a non-critical manner. Who taught you killing and butchery? What did you see that you learned how to cut and slaughter? Did I teach you that?

He rolled his eyes and was surprised at my seeming naiveté.

The words from his mouth came forth simply and efficiently...

"The Bible".

[LifeHiscost]

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He rolled his eyes and was surprised at my seeming naiveté.

The words from his mouth came forth simply and efficiently...

"The Bible".

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And your point is...?

[:"red"] "It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?" [/]

Matthew 10:25 KJV

[Robert]

Where did Israel first obtain weapons? God had not so equipped them, according to the record. If they chose to be a military nation in spite of God's wish to protect them in His own way, would He not then have rejected them? Do we have a Biblical example showing what God might do under such circumstances?

It takes little thought to find such an example in the later history of the nation. Although God never intended Israel to have a visible king, He did not reject them when they claimed one. And their motive for this perfidy? "That we may be like all the nations" (1 Samuel 8:19). God warned them of the results of their choice, but He did not reject them for it. Did they, early on, desire to wage war "like" the Egyptians?

[Anthony!]

Hello LifeHisCost,

There is not so much a point to be made as an observation of a child responding to certain contents of the Bible, as he has learned as a reading assignment in his Seventh-day Adventist school and from his church Sabbath School lessons.

The "" is used to characterize my response and embarrassment that after all my wife and I have done as parents to avoid violence in our family television/video/DVD viewing and secular reading, the Bible turns out to affect him more so.

There is no right or wrong in this necessarily, just an observation...

[melvin mccarty]

one could wonder why you bought it for him in the first place...lol

mel

[LifeHiscost]

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the Bible turns out to affect him more so.

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Thank you for your response, Tony, to my rather brief post.

Being a realist (at least in my opinion) it seems a misnomer

to see children as innocent.

[:"red"] "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." [/] Psalm 51:5 KJV

[:"red"] "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God" [/] Matthew 19:17 KJV

Even Adam and Eve must have suffered excruciating guilt complexes after learning of Cain's actions against his brother Able. Not saying you have one of those debilitating complexes. Although Cain was supposedly a mature adult at the time of his crime, he performed an act of violence while the human race was still in its' infancy, not plagued with the countless temptations to evil that are all around us today. Therefore the comment you made above appears to me to be a ray of hope that far surpasses your boys reaction to that one excerpt. If you then expand how God's love can be revealed in and through the circumstances of the Scripture, especially the one your young one chose to emulate, I can envision him beginning to answer the question, 'Why suffering?', even in his limited experience and reasoning powers. Of course that would be with the Holy Spirit's influence.

God bless!