Lying Justified to Innocents Not "Old Enough to Know Better?"

Here's something to ponder:  Is it okay to lie to young children simply because they are not "old enough to know better?"  I'm sure the immediate answer for most is, "No."  That's certainly my answer.  We just got back yesterday from visiting family for several days.  One day, while we were at my parents' house, I was eating at the table, and behind me a kitchen tv was going, and my boys were at the bar, and my mother was in the kitchen.  I'm not sure exactly what was on the television, but it was some stupid commercial that mentioned or had Santa Claus.  I heard my firstborn (7 years of age) son say, "Santa is a freak."

I corrected him by saying, "A fraud.  He's a fraud."  He asked, "What is a fraud?"  I told him it meant he was a lie, an imposter.  (I don't ignore the fact that there was a Catholic bishop named Nicholas, etc., which we are learning about as an educational aside.)  My son W. then says to my mother, "You lied to my momma about Santa Claus."  She first said, "No I didn't.  She knew it was make-believe." He argued, "No, you lied."  She retorted, "Well, yeah, only until she was old enough to know better."

I bit my tongue.  But, wow.... So, I sat there thinking, "Yeah, and when I was old enough to know better that a good God does not torture people in a fire for eternity and that Christmas was a lie and that the true sabbath is the Roman 'Saturday' and other numerous things were lies, I spent MONTHS in deep shock and feeling greatly betrayed by all those I loved and trusted most."

And this is the truth.  When I was "old enough to know better," I discovered that those whom I thought I could trust were just a bunch of liars who love lies, because many of the lies are lies so many ADMIT to being lies, and yet they take pleasure in the unrighteousness, anyway.

I have found that the big false religions of the world (at the top is Christianity and Islam) forbid children to learn about other religions.  They're afraid they'll convert to something else!  Well, if something is totally truthful, should it not stand up to scrutiny?  I am different than most.  I have told my firstborn several times already, "I teach you now as a child, but when you reach adulthood, it's your responsibility to PROVE whether what I taught you is right or not."  And it is.  Adults are supposed to be responsible.  If your parents and pastors and teachers and friends and other trusted and loved adults told you lies like those of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jesus/Yahushua was born on "Christmas," Sunday is the sabbath, and other such things, then what makes you think they weren't lying about a lot of other things, too?

True Christians do NOT lie.  How could anyone with good sense believe in Jesus Christ if they do not know the TRUTH in the scriptures but are taught about all the other pagan religions having their sun god born on December 25 and being resurrected from the dead and being born of a virgin, etc.?

If we want our children to TRUST us, then we need to tell them the TRUTH from the very START, when they are innocent and not "old enough to know better," so then when they ARE old enough to know whether you are lying or not, they'll continue to trust you!

Well, all this OUGHT to be good common sense, I would think, but in a WORLD FULL of liars and those who love lies, I guess not.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie (Revelation 22:12-15).