Why does school tell my son that god is real? I want him taught facts not beleifs!?
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If he's in the public school system you can fight this tooth and nail. Don't put up with their propaganda!\n\nWhen I was nine years old I had a music teacher who started spouting god-babble; soon enough she had us singing hymns. Even my nine-year-old self knew that wasn't on, so I went to the principal. He was condescending and vaguely amused by it, but the teacher suddenly went back to good old 'Row row row your boat', so it was all good. I'd advise you to go to the principal too and see how far you get.\n\nIf it's a private school, you should consider changing schools.
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Go ask your son these questions.\n\nI someone put an M-60 to his head and pulled the trigger, would god stop the bullets?  If he was in a helicopter and it was shot out of the sky, would god catch the falling craft and place it safely on the ground?  If a mortar round was falling down on to your son's position, would god reverse gravity and make it fly back up into the sky?\n\nI'm sure your son doesn't believe god could do any of these things, so why do you?  What brings home men from war is TRAINING, and LUCK. Any soldier will tell you... when a soldier faces the moment of truth, he can act or he can pray, and if acting will save his life, and he chooses to pray instead, then say goodbye to the soldier.
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I don't think anyone has really answered this question.  I found out that everything I was being taught about God were lies or mistruths and was very upset.  I have since set out on my own spiritual quest and have a much better understanding of our creator.  Don't believe everything anybody tells you (even the authors of the bible).  Seek and ye shall find.  God is within.
850891
You can teach that - just don't pass it off as science (its like pushing your pamphlets under the door), put it in a religious instruction class.
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Yes God is real it is just that people have choices and to most it is easier to choose the way of the world instead of the way of the Bible. If people would really look at the way the world is now( to what it was say 10 or 20 years ago) that they try to take God out of everything they would see that it was better when they allowed God here. I just recently read that the new Pepsi cans has an American flag on it and the pledge of aligence but it is with out "IN GOD WE TRUST" how can they take that out of the one thing that this country has always stood on. All the way back to our founding fathers. I agree with you we need to put God back in out country.
71608
In prayer ask God to open your eyes and reveal His truths to you. It is difficult to tell the difference between real from fake, only with God's help can you do so.
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When I call something a fact it is not really a fact but rather an assumed fact.\n\nFact: God is defined as being greater than anything that can be imagined. ( The defined as is an important part of the proof)\n\nFact: God exists in understanding. (a person can imagine that a god exists)\n\nFact(dubious): If God exists in understanding, We can imagine him as greater if he exists in reality. ( The idea is if you imagine the great god as only existing in our imagination, and then imagine him existing in reality He would be greater in the case where he exists in reality.)\n\nNow here is the squeeze play. Go back to the definition of god as being greater than anything that can be imagined. Now of the two possibilities, that god exists only in our imagination, and God exists in reality, only the later that god exists in reality fits the definition of God, Therefore according to this logical construct God Must exists. I like to call this a logic box. You build parameter that insures an outcome that God exists. \n\nThe problem shows up in that are all the facts real, and also just because something can be logically shown to fit a definition is the definition true.
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I'm sure that the textbook you are using is faulty,especialy if they haven't discussed the many and varied tenents of your faith.It is your duty to attempt to correct this.Find some better books at your library, share them with your teachers,use every other opportunity  to write about your faith in class assignments(let me assure you that devout Christian students do this all the time, they call it witnessing)Stand up for your beliefs,it's your duty as a citizen.
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Stop abusing him you people, it does make a whole lot of difference, Paul changed the face of the true christianity, if his account of his conversion has flaws in it, why should anybody believe the rest of his stories, why are you hanging your hereafter on such lies.\nAnd for you the questioner, the fact that you discovered the lies of christianity does not mean there is no God, God has already sent a message to tell people what the truth is, that is the Holy Quran, please study it.\n\n\nhttp://www.SearchTruth.com
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I know God is real because my 17 year old daughter was in a car crash. She was ejected from the car and left in a field in the rain by her so called friends. They didn't even call  911.\n\nShe was unconscious and in a coma for 3 months. She had MANY broken bones, wasn't breathing on her own/hooked up to life support, had a collapsed lung and was suffering severe brain swelling due to a severe traumatic brain injury TBI. \n\nThey told me she only had a 1% chance to live. After she did survive, but still in a coma...they told me she would be a vegetable the rest of her life and may not ever come out of the coma...confronting me daily to remove her from life support.\n\nThe doctors said it was medically impossible for her to recover because of the extensive brain damage and also her brain stem was severed.\n\nWe prayed and prayed. She slowly emerged from the coma. After a year in the hospital, she started breathing on her own, learned to swallow, eat, talk and walk again. She recently finished her high school courses and received her diploma. \n\nShe has some deficits but is fully functional.\n\nTHAT is how I know God is real!
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If you are having problems helping your son with THIS task, heaven help the poor guy. He better have qualified teachers, who can explain things to the students, as he sure doesn't stand a chance to have it explained again at home.
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That's a strange thing to ask.  I mean, believing in God, or Jesus, or anything like that isn't about logic, it's about faith, and if you're trying to reduce it to a question of proof, then it suggests to me that you don't understand a lot about your own beliefs.  \n\nIf you believe that Jesus was the Son of God, then it's because that belief resonates with you on some level.  Whether that's a deep spiritual resonance or just because it's comforting for you, that's not for me to say, but either way, it's presumably something your heart clings to tightly, and it's unlikely that any logical argument, on its own, is going to change that.  In that sense, the answer to your question appears to be no, because any evidence can be explained away or reinterpreted one way or another.\n\nPersonally, I don't believe that Jesus was the son of God, not in the way you seem to mean it, and I think Jesus himself would have been upset with the idea that he was.  That said, though, I know some very good people who are very serious about their belief that Jesus was the Son of God.  Some say that it's their faith that gives them strength to do what's right, and I sure can't prove them wrong--though I can say from experience that not all good people are Christians and not all Christians seem to be good people.  But for the ones I've met who are both--that is, Christian and good, or good people of any religion--it's not about proving that what you believe is right; it's about doing what's right because of what you believe, or in accordance with what you believe.  \n\nYou and I could argue all we want about whether Jesus was or was not the begotten son of God, or a child of God as we all are, or a son of God in the sense that it appears to have been meant by his contemporaries (ie, a wise teacher), but arguing the logic and the semantics won't bring us any closer to knowing God, or understanding God, or serving God.  \n\nI enjoy a good debate, and if you do to, then there's nothing wrong with that.  But if you want to prove the goodness of God, then do it by going out there and doing good on God's behalf, not by posting illogical questions on Yahoo!
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God is by nature eternal- He has no end or beginning. Tell your son that it might be hard to understand because people's minds weren't made to be able to understand all of what and who God is. Tell him that one day we will see God and all of his glory and then we will be able to understand.\n\nI pray you keep raising your son in a home where it is OK to ask questions and want to understand and know God. I pray that he becomes a strong Christian young man. I can see the great things in him already. thank you for raising your son following Christ. God bless.
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Mom- Youre Going To Find LOTS Of People That Insist On Keeping Their Heads In The Sand, Whether They Believe You Or Not\nSome Dont Want To Believe The Truth, Even When Its Starin Em In The Face\nSome Will HIDE From The Truth, Cause Its Too Painful To Admit That What Youre Showin Em Is Real\n\nTheres ALOT Of Reasons\n\nAll You Can Do Is To KEEP TRYING To Reach The Ones That ARE NOT AWARE Of The Truth, SHOW Them, TELL Them\nAnd Hopefully Youll Open Enough Eyes And THEY Will Inform Others\n\nKeep The Faith Mom, Youre Doin The Right Thing\nYour Kid's Futures Are At Risk
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People like you give the rest of christianity a bad name. If you don't want to get an education, why don't you just stop telling others what to believe. Evolution is real, live with it. Sticking your fingers in your ears, and humming isn't going to make the truth go away. its just going to make people like you look like morons.\nGod would not be proud of that kind of  juvenile nonsense.
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simple..\n\nTRINITY IS FALSE! its just a made up stories!\nThe truth is God is absolute 1, there is no such thing as God has son..\n\nJesus is only human the messenger of God! Christians was the one who believe Jesus is God.. when Jesus himself never admit he is God, infact he always said he pray, and worship to 1 God in heaven!!
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great question, we learn it because everything in this world is "of" this world which means the devil will try to decieve us the best way he can get to us. Why not do it through the school system? We all have to learn this stuff whether we believe it or not. The way I think about it is, take the test and pass with an "A". you don't need to sell yourself out. Just stay true to your beliefs. Or, if you have a parent like I will be when I have kids, tell your mom or dad to go up to the school and do something about it. I sure would.