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NASB | Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God's wisdom and will for his abilities and talents], Even when he is old he will not depart from it. [Eph 6:4; 2 Tim 3:15] |
Bible Question:
I found a very serious problem in the book of Proverbs. Solomon who wrote the book said: Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. But he himself was taught by David and abandoned what he had learned. Could it be that he learned with his father to have wives and concubines and just excelled on this? Honestly I don't believe any human being is conditioned by what they are taught as kids. I have seen many change their ways no matter what kind of teaching they had as kids. The only thing I am sure continues in them is the psychological conditionments that don't leave the subconscious mind. But their actual life style are subject to all kinds of change, both for those who were raised in Christian homes and pagan homes. Now, what to do with this passage of Scriptures? Thank you, Finder |
Bible Answer: Finder - The Lord Jesus Christ said, "Seek and ye shall find." So for what are YOU seeking? What is it that you are trying to find, Finder? Is it the Lord, or is it merely trying to find, in your words, "a very serious problem" with His revealed word? Perhaps it would do you a great deal of good to mull over the final chapters of the book of Job, beginning at Chapter 38. You will discover from your reading of the concluding chapters of Job how adroitly God put Job in his place. Frankly the nature, tone and perspective of your inquisitive posts remind me of the clay trying to talk back to the potter, a powerful analogy that Paul draws in the ninth chapter of the book of Romans. It all boils down to this, Finder. A person believes in God or he doesn't. He believes in God's word or he doesn't. He trusts God with all his heart and leans not on his own understanding or he doesn't. He walks by faith or he walks by sight. How do you describe yourself? Do you trust God and trust His word with all your soul and with every nerve and sinew within you, or are you holding back, trying to understand as much about God's word and purposes as God himself understands? Do you want everything in duck soup order, with all t's crossed and all i's dotted before you are willing to surrender your will utterly and completely to His, holding back nothing? I was once young and possessed with somewhat of a "Finder" mind set myself But now that I am past the three-score-and-ten milestone in my life, I look back upon those years, much as Solomon did in Ecclestiastes I suppose, and recognize how utterly foolish I was to question God and His word. And now as I am advanced in age, I exult with Solomon who, after all his experiments with what he called the "vanity of vanities" in life, proclaimed boldly and I believe with a great deal of relief akin to the prodigal son when at last he turned his heart homeward to be reconcied to his father, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclestiastes 12:13,KJV). ...... That you too will find your way homeward to your Father is my prayer. --Hank |