Miah Learns to Write

Photo by CDC on Unsplash As a follow-up to my previous article titled " 7 Reasons Why Children Should Listen to Their Parents ", I have decided to write about certain scenarios when the command for children to obey may be overridden. I'm not advocating for children rebelling against their parents because that's a clear violation of the command, but it's very easy to abuse authority when you simply quote the Bible without studying the proper context and thinking it through logically. Again, I believe that children should obey their parents, but I would like to talk about the exceptions and other possible scenarios when children don't have to obey their parents. Please do not misunderstand. The reason why I wanted to write this article was because it has come to my attention that there are cases when it might be confusing for children on what to do. This is also to remind parents that, just as much as the LORD has given a command for children, He also gave a cor

Photo by Emmanuel Phaeton on Unsplash There is this very popular saying in Christian communities which goes, "Love the sinner, hate the sin." And I think it carries with it a bit of a confused notion about the nature of God, and how Christians are supposed to deal with the world. First of all, obviously we have been commanded to love God above all things with all our mind, soul, heart, and strength. Then, we should love our neighbors as ourselves. We should take pains to resist sin and temptation because for Christians, we have already been freed from it, so it makes no sense to willfully go back to the bondage of sin. So, that's the meaning of the statement in a nutshell, but there are some nuances to it. I believe this statement has mostly been used in the context of how Christians should deal with members of the LGBT community, and it tried to tackle the issue of how we should evangelize to them. Because society has deemed it hateful to tell people who have homosexual