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Teaching Your Kids About the Bible
Many parents who have religious faith are met with a dilemma when they have children. They want their children to have the strength, learning, and humility offered through faith, but they don’t want to force anything on their kids. Faith, after all, should be a personal choice. But that doesn’t mean you can’t expose your children to the teachings of the King James version Bible and faith-based ideas. This will present them with one avenue of thought, and then they can make decisions on their own about what they do or don’t believe.
One way to engage your children in this faith-based discussion is through religious toys. These action figures depict various biblical figures and stories such as Noah, the nativity, Jonah and the whale, and many more. It will be a great way to introduce biblical issues and morals in a fun and interesting way. Kids will love to play with these figures, and they’ll also love to hear the universal lessons that can be learned from these stories.
The Book of Job
The first book of the Wisdom Books of the Old Testament, The Book of Job, follows God’s most faithful servant, Job, through a series of unfortunate events. God tests Job’s faith when he is told by Satan that Job is only faithful because God favors him. God then takes away all that he gave to Job; a family, a home, and riches. Job at first does not curse God, stating that he was brought into this world with nothing, and realized it all could be taken away. But when God then curses Job with sickness, he was then ready to curse God. It was Job’s friends who brought him through his despair, and in the end God gave back all he had taken from Job.
This is one of the more controversial texts of the KJV bible, as it suggests that, for no moral reason, Job’s faith was tested. However, this is also a tale of the importance of faith because had Job not cursed God, he would have proved Satan wrong.
Honor Tradition — Tell Bedtime Stories
The telling of bedtime stories is a time-honored tradition. There isn’t a child out there who doesn’t enjoy having his mother or father read to him before bedtime. It’s a way to stay close and connected to your children. It also tickles their imagination and their love for books and reading. Bedtime stories often inspire children to be creative as they grow up.
There are a lot of stories to choose from. Fairy tales and fables, and recently parents have taken to telling children’s bible stories. The Holy Bible is full of inspirational stories and great characters. If you want to emphasize on courage, tell the story about Daniel in the Lions’ Den. The story of Noah’s Ark points out that family should stay together despite adversities. Whatever virtue or moral value you want your child to learn, there’s a bible story that talks about it.
First KJV Bible
Virtually every culture and religion has a set of rites that adolescents must go through before they are considered an adult by the elder members of the community. Growing up in a Christian household, this rite of passage included going through confirmation and receiving my first communion. At my church we also received a Bible to commemorate the ceremony.
I remember being nervous as I was forced to kneel in front of the entire congregation to receive the communion. Following this, I was presented with my own KJV Bible with my name inscribed in it. The ceremony had little impact on me, honestly, and seemed more important to my parents and family.
A Trusted Translation
Leading up to the beginning of the 17th century, several English monarchs had commissioned translations of the Latin Bible, but the results had been murky and middling at best. It wasn’t until 1604 that King James I convened a special conference to have a new version drafted that would correct previous mistakes and make the content more clear and concise.
By 1611, the King James Version Bible was complete. To this day, Christians continue to read this version of the Bible. Many people find comfort and solace in its pages. The ancient parables add up to a moral guidebook that acts as a compass for believers to this day. Without the King James Bible and its clear, decisive language, the word of God wouldn’t have been understood by the masses to the extent that it is today.
Spreading the Word of God Near and Far
Last spring my church, The Sanctuary of Universal Life, organized a missionary project to help build clay huts for the families of who had lost loved ones to the deadly and vicious disease malaria. Our journey began in a small village outside the African Congo. Traveling only by bus or foot once we had reached our new continent of exploration, we journeyed through rainforests and deserts in an effort to reach out to as many shelter-less people as we could. After three weeks of hard labor and nearly sleepless nights we had built more than 85 huts from the ground up.
Once the strenuous work had been completed, we stayed an additional week to spread the word of God. During our twice-daily prayer sessions, all the villagers gathered around Pastor Boba Fett in awe of his pressed white robes and authoritatively squeaky voice. For hours on end they sat atop a tattered, burlap blanket and listened. Before parting ways with our newly beloved Christian pen pals and heading back to the land of the mighty, we granted their wish of a concrete wisdom of the Lord. And thus, we gave them bibles.