InSlaveryToChrist
Puritan Board Junior
This is an area, where I greatly struggle, since I have hard time obeying or even honouring my parents in various things.
Parents get their authority over children solely from God. Thus, if asked by their children why they must be obeyed, is it not wrong for the parents to simply argue, "Because we are your parents," or "Because we nurture you!" I think it is of a great importance we tell our children that the only reason why parents must be honoured/obeyed by their children is because that's God's commandent. We should also notice that parents' authority is limited, to God's commandments. If a parent tells his child to kill someone, the parent, then, goes against God's commandment not to kill.
I am not a great scholar, so, I need help in finding the exact commandments God has given us in regard to the family issue, Where does the line go in parents' commanding their children? There are also some particular questions I'd like to take up: Do Christian parents have the right to command their under-age child to participate in their church, [if the child is not in agreement with his/her parents' doctrines]? (This is the specific situation my little sister is in, who still lives with her Arminian parents.) Another question, Is it doctrinally sound to submit to the rule of the government that 18+ people are to be considered adults and 18- minors? (In my understanding there are people, who are 60 years old and have never become men/women according to the Bible. Does not Scripture teach a child becomes a man/woman, when he/she departs from his/her parents and gets engaged with another child?)
Please, share your knowledge with me! Your help is very appreciated!
Parents get their authority over children solely from God. Thus, if asked by their children why they must be obeyed, is it not wrong for the parents to simply argue, "Because we are your parents," or "Because we nurture you!" I think it is of a great importance we tell our children that the only reason why parents must be honoured/obeyed by their children is because that's God's commandent. We should also notice that parents' authority is limited, to God's commandments. If a parent tells his child to kill someone, the parent, then, goes against God's commandment not to kill.
I am not a great scholar, so, I need help in finding the exact commandments God has given us in regard to the family issue, Where does the line go in parents' commanding their children? There are also some particular questions I'd like to take up: Do Christian parents have the right to command their under-age child to participate in their church, [if the child is not in agreement with his/her parents' doctrines]? (This is the specific situation my little sister is in, who still lives with her Arminian parents.) Another question, Is it doctrinally sound to submit to the rule of the government that 18+ people are to be considered adults and 18- minors? (In my understanding there are people, who are 60 years old and have never become men/women according to the Bible. Does not Scripture teach a child becomes a man/woman, when he/she departs from his/her parents and gets engaged with another child?)
Please, share your knowledge with me! Your help is very appreciated!