My son hates god

Well children are still innocent so they don't really know that much. Of course in an innocent mind, he would blame God coz he knows it's God who brings rain. So why would God who brings rain will give rains on weekend when He knew all along that your son will meet his cousins and was so excited about it. Would it not really disappoint an innocent child. Well it is now the duty of the parent to give the child proper education on who is God and why He sometimes do things we don't want to happen. The same as what you did. Of course you would not want your son to remain hating God. In my case, I am giving my son consistent teachings on God. I use the word of God to teach him so that he will not be misled. And whenever he would ask questions, I always have the word of God as my helper to answer him. It's the word of God that gives wisdom to me so I am feeding my son the word of God each day as well so that he will grow in the love and knowledge of God.

Wow that's a tough one. It makes me think about what kind of questions my baby will be asking me when she gets old enough to make sentences. That is a challenging question and it's very hard to convince a child of that age that God doesn't do things to hurt us, he does them because he cares for us. I've seen situations where young children told their mom or dad that they hate them because their mom/dad wouldn't let them do something or go somewhere they want to go. Hopefully he really didn't mean it and he said it out of anger.

ronaldinu hi my Goodness what ever, that sort of shocked me but them I saw he was ony 8, so that figures. it is hard to convince a child that young that rain is a good thing as they want what they want now, not later. I would let him go to sunday school and hope maybe the teacher could answer some of his questions.I am a sort of christian but when I was little my dad insisted that I go to Sunday /school every Sunday unless I was really ill. I am sort of glad he did.My dad was a country doctor and often just couldnt go to church with us as he was called out in the cou ntry by a sick patient. I never faced this particular issue with my kids.

I think it is very hard to explain to children why things happen the way they do when it is hard for some adults to understand why bad things happen. If their is a God why does he allow bad things to happen, is a common question and a hard one to explain. It all started when Eve convinced Adam to eat the apple up until that time things where perfect. I was walking with my little girl one time and she was wanting a 4 wheeler and I told her she could not have one. She said if she ask God for one would he give it to her, I told her no God gave me her to raise and gave me the knowledge to know when she could have certain things, and she was way to little to have a 4 wheeler.

If this is starting at 8 hang on, your in for a long run. My son still came up with things like that at thirty, now at close to fifty he is starting to learn about his place in th world, in other words, the world doesn't go around him. The male ego is really something. Enjoy

I think you handled it well. Just explain and show him how God loves us and does what's best for us. I wouldn't worry too much. My oldest is 10 and they just start to get crazy. They love their best friend one minute and the next the can't stand them.

Hi there, Had to chuckle when I read your question/post, despite the seriousness of its tone. Kids do come up with the most outrageous ideas/comments sometimes. It's a part of the process of maturing and learning how things work in the world. I like and agree with your answer. You can expand on it, too, by saying God created different seasons to help the earth, but He DOESN'T CHOOSE which day of the week rain falls. As He's got a different concept of time from us, i.e. not the Roman calendar, we shouldn't blame God for it.

Kids do ask the best questions, don't they? I think I would let your son know that even the guys in the Bible - like David in Psalms - got angry at God sometimes. But they always ended up praising him at the end.

i would have been shocked to but u know how kids throe the word hate atound so i wouldn't be too concerned but i would have a good long talk w/him. how can 8 year olds understand when adults don't either sometimes.

I don't have children but I spent alot of time with them and I realized that whenever time disappointments comes their ways those words are the first ones that come from his/her mouth. What I normally do is to explain that in life there is disappointments but whatever was to take place will happen at a next time. Then I started to invent some games to keep them occupied.

Hi ronaldinu, i don't have any children so I don't have any problem with explaining to kids, I'm sure you can explain it nicely. Tamara

You should explain to him why we need the rain.. so that the trees will grow and all of the animals will have food.. Remind him of all of the nice things that have happened to him recently, and I'm sure that he will come round to love God again :) It's nothing serious though, a child of that age will just be angry because he's not able to play out.

I think i will tell him God is also a thing that can not be emplained easily and there are so many mysterious thing in the world which we can not be sure to know true or false,if he wants to know God exist or not ,just look up the books and decide for himself and make his own choice.Their belief can't be forced to follow ours.

Yse, I agree with you completely.We must make the children konw Thanksgiving. The wrold do not exist for them.Only this,he can study how to be a menber of a term.It is vrey important for him.

I'm sure he doesn't hate God. He's just a little angry that his plans got ruined. All little kids go through this. They're looking for someone to blame for their disappointment. I wouldn't worry too much about it if I were you. It will probably blow over in a day or two.

Your son is much better for in his heart there is a God than to an educated man who until this time he dont believe that there is One. Its normal for children and it happened to adults , its a big challenge for us parent not for them to go astray.

H[i]i ronald, hmm..have no kids but what you have done to your son is correct, you just need to remind him about the goodness of GOD and that feeling is very childish only and very easy to correct with, just an act of a child when they are disappointed and good thing you are there to remind him that we also need rain especially the farmers who are working hard for the food of all people! ANyway, I am sure there are other parents also who experienced the same! [/i]

Yes, and the answer is to talk to them. There is no easy way out other than calming their fears and well talk to them about what you know and believe.

wow.. i think i would explain to him for one thing, things happen for a reason sometime we can't explain it. that God gave him life, and gave the job that give you money that buys him things. yeah hard one for sure.. good look

Your son is still young to understand things but he will at the right time.You just have to slowly explain to him and guide him always.My daughter never ask me question like that.I know she have faith to God.I always see her praying before eating and sleeping.But i did sometimes question God and sometimes feel upset about allowing bad things to happened.I know He is powerful why would He allow bad people to destroy others lives.But i realized that He made things to happen for a reason and i am sure He had good reason for it and it is for our sake.