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Beloved: A Secular View Analysis

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To properly nurture the children, parents must first realize they are on loan by God. “You must view your children as a stewardship from God. That is, they have been placed into your life by God so that you can raise them according to His principles to do His will when they are old enough to understand what that is” (Stanley, 1986, p.32). Personally, this should begin with teaching them the Ten Commandments and a healthy fear of the Lord (see Ex. 20:1-26).
Next, children should know about unconditional love, “See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him just as He is” (I John 3:1-2 NASB). This is where there is a conflict …show more content…

They see nothing wrong with it. “Sex before marriage isn’t much of a worry if you live in a society where people get married shortly after they become sexually mature” (Seidensticker, 2013, para. 1) Secular viewpoint: The secular world thinks of many things as disposable. A fetus is one of those things. They do not believe an unborn fetus is a living being. Hence, if a woman has an unwanted pregnancy the secular world has made it legal and the woman’s right to abort the unborn fetus. Secular viewpoint: Much of the secular world no longer believes in corporal punishment, such as, spanking. Many think it harms the child. Almost all the public schools have removed corporal punishment from the schools unless the parent signs a consent form. Secular viewpoint: “In 1970, 28% of primary-school-age children in the world were not attending school, today this share has decline to 9%- equivalent to 60 million children not in primary education as the first visualization below shows” (Roser & Ortiz-Ospina, 2017,

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