It is important that children listen to and sing hymns and other Godly music that we normally think of as being for adults, in addition to songs that are geared for children. In fact, children need to be saturated with hymns and other decidedly Godly music. Here is why:
- Children learn a lot about God through the songs they sing and hear. Hymns are rich with spiritual truths. Many hymns in four or five verses will have 25 or more different spiritual truths that are expressed, while many children’s songs have only a few spiritual truths in each song. It is amazing the concepts about God and the Christian life that children learn when they are saturated with songs that are loaded with spiritual truths.
- The songs that a child learns are remembered for a life time. As parents we are preparing our children for adulthood, not childhood. It is important that they learn songs that they will want to sing the rest of their lives.
- Hymns and Godly music aids in giving children maturity. God states this in Psalms 144:7-12. If we rid ourselves of ungodly music and sing a new song (a decidedly Godly song) then “our sons will be as plants grown up in their youth and our daughters will be as corner stones (stable and mature) polished after the similitude of a palace.”
- Decidedly Godly music ministers to all age levels: the unborn to 100+. When my wife and I sang in a choral group, one of the things that stood out to me was that children four and five years old would sit and listen intently for an hour and a half! None of our songs were children’s songs. In fact, some of the songs could probably be classified as heavier adult songs.
- Children enjoy decidedly Godly music because it ministers to their spirits.
Are we saying that children should not have children’s songs? No! But we are saying that it is time to rethink the philosophy that the world has taught us that children should only be given what is on their age level. That is one reason why young people are so immature today. We need to give our children hymns and Godly music that will bring them to spiritual maturity.
Why Biblical Research Reports uses the KJV
When I started in-depth Bible research, I was using the NIV translation. I was not prepared for the deception and misguiding information that I found coming from Christian scholars. I did extensive research into Bible translations and into the Greek manuscripts themselves that the various versions are translated from.
I soon realized that the most significant subject facing the Church today is the Bible, what version is used and preached from, the Greek text it is translated from, and the way it is translated. Every Christian doctrine is based on the Bible. The way the Bible reads, the words that it has and the words that it does not have, the way the Greek words are translated or poorly translated, all affect the beliefs and teachings of the Church. At one point I thought that most translations of the Bible were basically the same except for the modernization of the old English in the KJV. This is not the case. Most of the modern translations do not have everything that the KJV does, as a result of changes in the Greek texts from which they are translated. In addition, significant changes have to be made in each new Bible version in order to copyright it. As a result of that research, I switched to the KJV. To read more about my Bible translation research check out these Research Reports:
Evidence the NIV is Not the Best Bible Translation
Evidence the NIV is not the best Bible translation (Condensed)
What is the Best Bible Translation?
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