Question about my nephew

[Jadea]

I know God says children are never to young to learn about Him, I agree, of course. My nephew has been asking me questions about God lately and I have told him truthfully, there is a Hell and Satan is real. I have told him not to worry about those things because God is bigger than Satan and good always defeats evil.

I explained the End Times to him a little because I decided it'd be better if he heard about what it is from me instead of from the media. Thanks to God, my nephew doesn't seem to be afraid of death anymore. He actually thinks it'd be cool if he could hang out with God for eternity.

Now I have a few questions: when God has his final judgement, will people be returned to their physical bodies? I'm unclear on this. Is there anything I should refrain from telling him? I already know not to talk to him about fornication because he's too young to hear about that. (He's 7).

Jadea

 

[Etharia]

Do his parents not have any of guidelines you can use?

 

[mamaneenie]

I am pretty sure we don't get our old bodies, but God creates new bodies for us.

Ask his parents what they think he needs to know. 7 yo is pretty young to be going into full detail with end time stuff. There are some things he really doesn't need to know just yet. I reckon kids are being made to grow up too fast. It is good he is asking questions though.

 

[desi]

Keep answering his questions and don't withold info about God from him.

People get perfect bodies when we die. Don't know whether they are new or refitted old ones.

 

[Jadea]

I haven't gone into too much with him about the End Times. I just told him, Jesus would come back to earth and the world would be a much happier place. I didn't want to tell him about the Anti-Christ because I didn't want to scare him.

No, his parents didn't give me any guidelines, but they seem uncomfortable talking about death with him. My sis-in-law has asked me to try not to scare him though, which I wouldn't do anyway.

He asked me if Satan and Hell were real and I didn't want to lie to him; I didn't want to deny what God says in the Bible.

Thanks for your advice! God bless!
Jadea

 

[mamaneenie]

I haven't gone into too much with him about the End Times. I just told him, Jesus would come back to earth and the world would be a much happier place. I didn't want to tell him about the Anti-Christ because I didn't want to scare him.

No, his parents didn't give me any guidelines, but they seem uncomfortable talking about death with him. My sis-in-law has asked me to try not to scare him though, which I wouldn't do anyway.

He asked me if Satan and Hell were real and I didn't want to lie to him; I didn't want to deny what God says in the Bible.

Thanks for your advice! God bless!
Jadea

I'm glad you haven't gone into too much detail about the end times. If he asks you questions about death (like his parents said not to answer) or asks you questions that you feel you don't know how to answer, or if his parents want him to know yet, I would just say, perhaps you need to ask you mum and dad.

I don't think you should ever lie to children. They always find out the truth anyway, and then get confused because someone they trust lied to them. It is obvious he trusts you because he is asking you these questions.

 

[karla]

I would answer what ever questions he has. To make sure that you are not giving him more than he can handle give him truthful, but simple responses and let him lead you to bigger questions or ask more questions if the first response was not enough information.

 

[mamaneenie]

I would answer what ever questions he has. To make sure that you are not giving him more than he can handle give him truthful, but simple responses and let him lead you to bigger questions or ask more questions if the first response was not enough information.

You shouldn't answer every question if the parents have asked not to talk about death. That is walking over their boundaries.

 

[Jadea]

I was talking to my sister-in-law and she told me, she told him that when people die, they go to Heaven. So, she and my brother have answered that question for him when he asked them. They're uncomfortable about it, I guess, but they do answer his questions about it. (He asked when their fish died, if I remember what she told me correctly). From what his parents have told him, I think that's all he needs to know and all they want him to know about that until he becomes older.

Just from my own experiences, I think 7 is too young to understand fully what death is, it'd be too comfusing. I completely understood what it was at the age of 5 and it's caused me to have an odd reaction to death ever since then. My parents didn't explain it to me, they just told me what my nephew's parents have told him, but my grandmama died before I was born and after seeing a picture of her at age 5, I completely understood it. I wouldn't want him to understand it like I did; it'd make him grow up too fast, I fear.

My nephews were the ones who said grace during Thanksgiving and my 4 year old nephew said, "Thank you, Good God, for eating all our food!" I thought it was funny because kids have the cutest way of saying things.

Thank you for all the advice y'all have given me!

Jadea