The Bible on Trial

Learn Truth, or Learn Lies~ How do children learn about Truth and Lies? Having been a parent of young children, and remembering how my parents trained me, I realized that a common thread from my parents that I passed on to my children was the phrase, 'Don't lie, always tell the truth'! I was taught thay lying was bad, and that telling the truth was good, and that doing the first was punished, and doing the second was rewarded. However, I also learned early on that this was not alway the case. Parents want to believe that their children as pure as the wind driven snow, and would rather not have to deal with the alternative. Because of this I learned that getting out of trouble often involved telling a 'little white lie', and was very often rewarded by my parents (and me with my children) because they/we believed the lie was easier to deal with than if I had told the truth, admitted the mistake, taken my punishment, and got on with life. The problem with doing this often is that you have to remember the lie, otherwise you could get caught down the road when you forgot you lied and were caught in it. Lying for me, as it turned out at the time, was easier and more simple than telling the truth.  Parents consentrate on teaching children how to 'learn to not tell lies', instead of teaching them to learn the truth and watch the lies go away. Lying is easy, learning and practicing the Truth is difficult. Yet when we learn the truth about anything it automatically precludes having to tell lies about it. Lying is a cover for not knowing the truth. When you believe a lie as if it is the truth you don't know what you don't know; and not knowing the truth is not a sin. But when you are confronted with the idea that what you believe to be true might be a lie, and you refuse to learn the truth, this now becomes a big problem. To stop having to lie, learn the Truth!