what we are teaching kids

You should be bothered. That kind of thinking is ridiculous and damages the minds and lives of our children. Then we wonder why when they get a taste of freedom they rebel into all sorts of things.

Sounds to me like you can summarize that line of thinking as: Dont talk about sex, don't think about sex, and most of all if you do have sex in marriage make sure it is for procreation and the shades are completely shut.

Christians today need to stop passing on this mindset to our kids, we are really going to mess their minds up about sex.

 

It would help if you told us what you find wrong with these.
From what I see, not kowing the rest of the book or anything,
1. Animals have sex only for reproduction, never anyother time. People, in a marriage situation, not just reproduce, but sex is an expression of love between a man and his wife. I see that as one reason sex is 'pleasurable'.
I may not be addressing what you are in this quote though.

2. Not sure the problem, But I believe their defination may be off,
Strong's
H6711
A primitive root; to laugh outright (in merriment or scorn); by implication to sport:—laugh, mock, play, make sport.

 

I like the book "60 things God said about sex"

http://www.internationalbibles.com/catalog/books/whitaker/0883687704.htm
It is the book we gave all our graduating students from Elementary Sunday School into Middle School.... And before all you blue-hairs get all out of whack... it was their 80 year old elementary teacher that suggested we did.

Kids need to know the truth in Middle School... By the time they get to High School they could have already lost their virginity.

 

Tater,

I am troubled by what you posted . . . but, I am not certain that I could 'write better' for teenagers.

Being a teacher is a difficult profession.

 

What Are We Teaching Kids?

Did I miss your point of view of teaching? I read the postings and I think you all missed what God created us to do. It seems you lost the point of teaching similar to when Jesus talked to the Samerian girl at the Well! What was the point? The point Jesus had a job to do by the Father. All of you who have accepted Christ as your saviour has an obligation to teach all folks our good news. I love math but does that allow me to teach--NO! Why? Man has chosen paper to justify teaching. So, back to the well we go. I am not going thru that scripture because you all know it. But I will go to Jeremiah 2:13. Oh my! it is the Well! What you guys are chating and murmuring about is the actions of unsaved folks teaching our children. STOP! Jesus said in verse 13 that MY people have committed two evils. It is a frenzie of you all feasting on the cistern. Look in the dictionary to see what a cistern does! Their function is to leak out! What does a fountain do? It flows out water continuely and people drink of it for a human to live by. BUT it is Gods WORD in the bible we need to adhere to. NOW about this teaching issue. I have been to a fair number of churches. Yep they all have a cook book they go by to teach the same thing all over --year after year. Our kids want refreshing NEW ideas. Give it to them. Teach the new math to them. Do not be like the British teaching and cook book for those that can not get it. JUst like the Irish and South Koreans folks that were underminded by another power system to styme folks. teach differently-- math example: 72-5 = what. Stop no carrying. Do not go the Brits way of carry one from a seven to make the 2 a 12. It is hard especially in thousands and billions. Have the 2 drop down and add it with the 5 to add to the -5 and make a 10 so that we have a 5 plus a 2 == 7 on column next subtract the 10 from the 70= 60 or a six and add that to the next column and makes the answer 67. Walla! Your brain can do that faster. God said you your tallents. He also said that the world is his foot stool. Gee wiz folks my great garand child figured that out. God is huge! I guess so since heaven has not a bottom nor a top nor any sides of East nor A West! So, when we get to heaven we will be monsterous in size--unfathonable. Do not believe me---then do Eistiens theory. That is why age and our stars and planet is expanding.God is not a liar. He is holy and uses math. All trees multiply themselves--it is his law not ours. So, thing about teaching our kids beievers in Jesus the world is there for them to conquer.

 

Abonmarche

Welcome to the board.

I admit that I do not completely understand your post, but what I can understand sounds very intellectual.

God bless

Wayne

 

ummmmm ...

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What in the world does all that mean and how does it relate to the OP?

 

WHEW! This time I am not the only one to misunderstand . . .



But, back to your original OP - we live in very difficult times. And it is scary that our 'best' is often so little.

I am scared for the next generation.

 

When I was teaching (both homeschool and as administrator of our own private school with other teachers and students involved), there is something I explained to the older kids (jr hi and up) which I have not heard mentioned by others, but which the kids have thanked me for as adults.

It seems that God has put into the physical world all kinds of symbols of spiritual truths. Jesus talked about grape vines and harvests and things the people were familiar with everyday to explain spiritual truths. We can look at the Bible and see the Ark is a 'type' of Christ -- get on or get dead...

When I weed the yard, I can see the weeds as examples of bad habits. Get them out before they get big and hard to remove.

So, if physical things are a picture of spiritual things, at least mostly, then could sex itself be a picture of something?

I think it is. We read in the OT that Adam 'knew' his wife and she conceived. If we look at John 17, we see that Jesus defines eternal life as 'knowing' the Father and the Son. Obviously neither of these are referring to intellectual knowledge, but rather a very close, intimate relationship.

When a man enters a woman and she conceives, a new life starts.

When Christ enters a person and that person is born again, a new life starts.

It is very possible that the sexual relationship is, for human beings, not just a physical procreation thing, and not just a pleasure thing, but the one and only picture that God has given us of the relationship the Christian has with God Himself.

If that is true, then it explains why Satan is so driven to present sex out of marriage, in any way, shape, or form, as not only acceptable but desireable. It destroys the picture God has given us of the relationship man and God can have spiritually.

We dealt with STD's, emotional damage, and the rest, but talking to the kids who have long since gone on to other areas of life, when I hear from them today, that is the 'talk' about sex they all seemed to have remembered and which evidently made the biggest impression on at least some of them.

 

What are we teaching kids.

What are we teaching kids is the "OP". So what yuou folks do not understand. It all started by a paper certified teacher who explains herself as a believer of utilizing a non belivers point of view is my understanding. Also when this teacher was hired --this person has to perform under certain constrants. Even to deal with folks like unbelievers points of view or doctrines. All mans stuff. Simple. Issue was the well issue Jesus was teaching on a one to one--while his disciples left the area to buy or purchase food inside a town market. My point is we believers need to not question the cistern points and move onto fountain. Gods word is the Fountain of LIFE. I gave you all scripture on that issue. Next--teachers in chruches are also hindered by teaching by their doctrines. Again the cistern issue. Some question my great grand daughters point of view. Mathematically it is so. Isaian 66:1 Said that the heavn is my throne and the earth is my footstool. Hello, math.
It amazes me that the hubble intensifies the opening of heaven to show the intensity of light in one of our constellations making us soooo sooo insignafant. yet you all feel that you are giants. I do not get it.
Have we not smashed an atom. Have we not captured a part of the electron since we demolished the neutron and protron and called it a radical? Have we not got the radical smashed and got all these quarks? Have we not smahed and seperated the quark and gotten the muions? Have we not broken the muions down to pi's and found them to be triune? and each triune gotten a octagone? and each point of the octagon is now a light? Light of the rain bow. each its own? We have never beeen able to explain in math the light nor decribe it. Now the USA folks are hollering that we can not do this! why it might be a human? Thsi is what teaching is about. We look at little stuff which God called dust. and NOT him. What does it gain us? We spend billions of dollars because some man in the government said it is not dust and a living cell. Now we are projecting the cell or quark of an electron into outer space to a satelite to a third world country to then propel it around our world to another station and again to other point to mathematically get a half life. To prove it is dust and not a living cell. So, you all get it yet?

 

The emotional damage is one thing that few churches and schools talk about.