Hement Mehta told us Rachael's story.
Rachael is the daughter of an apologist. She was taught the Bible while she was young. She knew the words to say to defend the Bible. Her father was proud to show off what she knew.
Then one day, she asked herself a question she could not answer. From that point on, she turned her back on the faith that her father had taught her.
Did she do the right thing? What do you think?
Is she right to turn her back on what her father had taught her? Should she stay believing in that if it had been wrong?
What if her father had taught her something else, and she left that for the God of the Bible?
What makes it right? What makes it wrong? Does Rachael have enough power to discern? Does anybody?
Is truth relative to a person's perception? Or is there only one truth, and that is God's; we only need to agree on what that truth is?
What do you believe?
After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals. They forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They provoked the LORD to anger
ReplyDeleteDirect your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.
ReplyDelete... Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. ...
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