The problem of self-belief closely searchlinked to the problem of forming ideas about God. Some parents live in constant anxiety because they think that their children will create the image of God from my mother's and father's set of features. In their view, it looks like this: The child has to create in the mind of a certain concept of God, and since it in creating this concept not to rely on, it creates this image, summarizing his experience with parents, giving God and the positive and negative features of the parents . For example, if the father is not sufficiently close to the child emotionally, God is also moving away if the mother is inclined to criticize him, God also prepared to condemn him. These parents are under constant pressure and in the whole blame themselves, because it seems to them that their weaknesses and shortcomings hinder the child to understand the image of God.
This, of course, wrong. Naturally, the children incorporate the experience of relationships with parents and on this basis form their idea of God. However, in the development of this representation into play other factors.
Interpretation of the child. Memory Studies have shown that childreninterpret their experiences. Memory - this is not a simple fixation of events that own character painted child's point of view, desires, fears, understanding the features.
Other types of reality. Ребенок не приравнивает родителей к Богу. По мере того как он растет, он начинает ассимилировать и другие виды реальности — других людей, библейские истины, различные ситуации, также входящие в его представление о Боге,
The divine and the human. Став постарше, ребенок приучается отличать свойства людей от свойств Бога. Ребенок от рождения наделен как бы двумя замочными скважинами: один замок отпирает Бог, другой — люди. Созревая, человек сумеет сформулировать это различие: «Бог не человек, чтоб Ему лгать, и не сын человеческий, чтоб Ему изменяться» (Числа 23:19).
Рост и изменения. The image of God does not remain constant, it changes, as growing and changing the child. The more the child gets experience in which God is recognized, the better he understands who God is.
Позаботьтесь о том, чтобы у вашего ребенка было достаточно опыта и вашей, и его собственной близости к Богу. Ребенок создан, чтобы искать Бога и обрести Его.
