...but christians who claim that the value of christianity is that it leads to success in life—earthly life—drive me nuts.
Well, they probably wouldn’t put it that way if you said it like that, but I agree that this is how it comes about. Probably if you cornered an “elder” in my community, they’d say that Christianity is primarily important for the soul.
But at a parenting talk I was just at, someone commented that “next to raising your kids to know the Lord, loving your spouse well in front of them is the best thing you can do.”
I probably didn’t define “fail” very well—I think they mostly mean that the Christian child will grow up to have better values and morals, not necessarily more money, prestige, or the like.
Well, they probably wouldn’t put it that way if you said it like that, but I agree that this is how it comes about. Probably if you cornered an “elder” in my community, they’d say that Christianity is primarily important for the soul.
But at a parenting talk I was just at, someone commented that “next to raising your kids to know the Lord, loving your spouse well in front of them is the best thing you can do.”
I probably didn’t define “fail” very well—I think they mostly mean that the Christian child will grow up to have better values and morals, not necessarily more money, prestige, or the like.