You can't teach an old dog a new trick

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

                                                              ~Proverbs 22:6

In his defense, Socrates points out that things you learn when you are young have more potential to be dangerous to you when you are older. If you think about it, this is so true. People are much more impressionable when they are young than when they grow older. Even things so simple as habits that you developed when you were little you could still be doing up to the time you die, not to mention things that you were actually taught and you stand for. This is why I believe it is so important for us to be serious about teaching children the whole truth about faith and a relationship with Christ rather than the watered down version that is taught more often than not. It might seem more appealing for the time, but in the end it doesn't serve any good.

“But far more dangerous are these, who began when you were young, who took possession of your minds...”


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