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“I can't imagine what those ministers are thinking! I especially was disturbed with how Bryan Samms used his son as an example of modern children not being able to understand the King James Bible. I would like to share my experience.
“I have a daughter ( Nadilie) who is nine and a half. She learned to read when she was five and started reading a chapter out of her King James Bible every day when she was six. (She is currently halfway through your History of the Churches from a Baptist Perspective.) I asked her, after reading Samms' statement regarding his son, if she feels her Bible reading from the KJV is any harder to understand than her other reading and her answer was no. That is the testimony of a nine year old today.
“What is the difference between a child who finds the KJV strange and hard to understand and the child who has no problem? May I suggest that it could be several things. First, Samms uses his son as an example to prove that children can't understand the KJV. However, Samms also states that he was having doubts and leaning towards the new versions at that time. Children do not live in a vacuum. They are very prone to picking up on the attitude of their parents. The attitude of Samms himself could have contributed to his son's attitude. But even more importantly is the fact that they were not, it would seem, having these discussions until age eleven regarding reading the Bible. Why were these discussions not taking place years before? It seems to reveal a lazy dazy attitude regarding his son's religious education.
“This is an attitude I have found, to my great sorrow, to be prevalent to a frightful degree among Independent Baptists and other Christians. As parents we cannot expect to feed our children Hollywood, Disneyland, worldly styles of music, picture ‘bibles’ that have no real Bible text in them, etc., and expect them to become born again, healthy Christians. We parents can't keep putting our career first with both parents working out of the home thus depriving the children of the quality time they need. Let's be real! Let's be honest. If we want children that will be an honor to God, if we want children who can love and understand their Bible we must invest the time and effort and then pray hard for God's blessing. The problem is not with our KJV Bible; it is with us as parents who will not spend the time to give our children the loving nurturing that only we can give so they can grow into His image.
“May God help us to change before it is forever too late!”
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