Answer to reactions

I have had reaction to my previous blog.. This made me happy in one sense, as I have a childish happiness about having comments posted on my blog.. Sad is that the reaction was negative....But anyway, I just post here my reaction, and write a bit more maybe.

1. I said: happy to have their children there.
2. Maybe I should be more moderate, but I do feel strongly about it! The children have only one soul, one life. There is only one way to be saved. We should be strong about salvation, shouldn't we?
3. God commanded parents to train their children day and night. Do we agree with people not turning up at services? That's wrong. Why is it wrong to break one commandment, and not wrong to break another?
4. If I have offended anyone, my excuses, it was not the aim. But I do urge people to think again, and to study the Scriptures!

I do feel very strongly about Christian education, not Reformed monasteries. It is the parent's duty to train their child in a God-honouring way. It is a commandment to parents to train their child at all hours of the day. A child needs protecting and training, it hasn't got the discernment that adults have. Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, the Bible says.
I cannot think of any reasons that are Biblically acceptable to send your child to a non-Christian school, unless forced to. To me it is the same as not going to church as a Christian. I know plenty of Christians who hardly ever go to church. They are fine, they are still Christians etc etc. Sending your child to a non-Christian school doesn't mean to say your child will automatically become an atheist, just as sending it to a Christian school doesn't mean it will become a Christian. But God did write those things for a reason.

The reason I compare those people with Hype-Calvinists is that both lay down their God-given responsibility. People with children in state-schools are not necessarily Hyper-Calvinists, as not every one is happy with having them in state schools, but there may be no other option. Also, some people haven't studied the issue, and have happily given parental responsibility out of hands, and handed their children over to people who have no true saving faith. Also, as Calvinists, we should be aware of the fact that our children are born with a corrupt heart, that is prone to evil, rather than to choose the good. So to put them into an environment that is mainly evil,and to think we can straighten them out at home and sunday school is in my eyes naive, and I think it has proven not to work. One has to only look at most reformed churches, and the attitude of most church goers...

I think it is essential for all Christians in this country to rethink he whole issue, and to study carefully the Bible, and see what God tells parents to do.

Any way, if someone has been really upset, my excuses! It is just so hard to see an issue, see God's truth on it, and to see most Reformed people taking a very worldly, humanistic point of view, which confirms that we were right in the first place.... If only people would be prepared to look at the issue more seriously!