Dont scare kids about Hell

Atheists: Dont scare kids about Hell

Christian:  This kind of rhetoric is trying to gaslight the public into thinking that you shouldn't teach your kids to believe what you believe is peak nonsense.

Telling children about danger doesn't traumatize them. Letting them get blindsided does. If OP thinks hell doesn't exist, then they ought to say so and have that conversation, but if hell does exist, only a monster wouldn't warn people.

That said, I have little patience for people who deliberately who dont understand what theyre takking about, and try to decieved people with garbly goop views.

I mean hell is an age appropriate conversation for a bit older kids. Idk if we should be focused on it for young kids though. It can be very traumatizing. Much of the Bible is not child appropriate. But they do learn not to touch a hot stove.

Not having some kind of focus or understanding of it is reasons why...
1. They possibly grow up and leave with a 6 year olds perception of the Bible stories, watered down. It wasnt like that prior to 1950s.

2. My grandparents were a deacon and teachers, and i was in the 4 and 5 year old class learning the 10C. And at 12 i heard church sermon on Hell and got saved, cuz i understood it.

Others got saved at 6,7,8.

But they need to be taught well at age appropriate levels so they understand about Hell, but also righteousness. 

As soon as they can comprehend not to run into traffic for a ball... theyll understand fear preserves. It is your friend.

But we can also explain it in a way children can understand. Ray Comfort wrote a kids evangelism book for ages 5 to 10, and we can explain things in a way such as

"when we do bad, God is a loving father that must punish, we can run to him and apologize for what we did wrong and our friendship and love is restored to normal", (something like that) to teach basics till older to understand sin, punishment, judgment, hell, Jesus taking our sin on himself on the cross, etc. The more weighty things.

The watered down miseducation leads to the children who are now in college and atheist taking about at least 15 of the "WhAt I DoNt GeT IT, BiBlE sToRiEs SoUnD DuMb" objections from noah, to # of animals on ark, to jonah and everything else they learned to age 10. And then drank the atheist deceptive koolaid of their new teachers in school [church teachers vs atheist ones].

We need to not watered down information. The reason these teens had problems with Christianity and God is because they were never taught clearer info about Jonah, The Ark, the Flood, etc... they had a 5 year olds understanding. But, back in 1800s (and back to OT era), the kids learned the exact same things as adults in worship. In US public Schools they even taught Scripture so well that 7 year olds had a high schoolers solid understanding of the Bible, and took exams on it. 

Weak teaching in many areas leads these kids to become teens and have no fear of God, and go to college w 5 yr olds knowledge on the Bible.

Theres ways to teach about Hell at age appropriate levels so theyre not living in terror, but still grasp something of it. We got to do better explaining that to children. So even if they leave the church at 13 or 15 or 18 and go off to atheistic colleges, they have a solid factual foundation to hold to.  

Fortunately the internet is used by everyone now so MZ+ have ability to get educated by reading the Bible, investigating what Lee Stobel and J Wallace have made avail by book and video and faq on yt. To help educate 7th thru 12th graders (if their churches and family failed to educate them well)... *we (millions of us in churches) had no such help from 50s to 90s, and theyre fantastic resources.

Teaching children about the Gospel here & here

J Warner Wallace books & videos (kids & adults)

J Warner Wallace video quick links 

JWarner Wallace yt playlists (300+ faq)

Lee Strobel book

Lee Strobel yt video 

The Gospel what is it ? 

Believers resources 

About Hell 

Investigate Christianity (or solidify your faith)