questions from Joshua are getting harder and harder for me to anwer

Joshua's been reading a chapter of Bible each day for months now. He started on Genesis and he just finished Leviticus yesterday and he was very excited to begin Number... haha, no sooner after he read half way, he turned to me and said it is boring, because Number chapter 1 is "census" and all about names.

Anyway, he actually thinks as he reads. One morning he asked me why is God so mean. Then he read to me Leviticus 26:28 "then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over." v29"You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters."

That sound really cruel. Now I knew what he meant. So I lead him to read v27 and explained to him because of what happen in v27, and the consequence is v28-29 and so on. v27 says "If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me". I explained briefly to him that there're people who refused to listen to God and are very hostile (mean) to God and do all those things that hurt people and hurt themselves.

Then he asked me what does it mean "eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters". Here it got harder. What does it mean? Out of my own limit understanding, and bringing it down to his language, I explained that there're people who are so so so bad and so evil and so deceived by the devil, they kill their sons and daughters. I told him I heard that satan worshipers kill their children to offer them to the devil. Then I said, there're people who don't understand and are so deceived that they kill their babies before they are born and that's called abortion. I told him that some people don't know what's growing inside the mommy's tummy is actually baby who have life! The devil hates people and wants to kill people. But God will protect us. We're to pray that abortion will be stopped.

I felt the heaviness of this message, so I told him God wants to bless us and wants to forgive us. He doesn't want these bad things to happen to us. We can have his blessings and forgiveness when we turn from our sin and confess our sin to the Lord and repent. He is waiting to forgive us.

Can a 6 yr old understand this message? I don't know how much he can understand but I'm seizing opportunities to tell him what I know. I pray for spirit of wisdom and revelation to come upon Joshua and that his eyes may be enlightened.

I remember years ago while we were still in LA, there was a prop 8 event. I explained to them that the marriage created by God is 1 man and 1 woman. No man with man, and no woman with woman, and no more than 1 man or 1 woman. That's the best way I can explain to them. Then I also tell them that we can only live together or have babies when we're married. I don't want to go in details with sex issue yet since they're still young. Anyway, even to these day they still remember. Occasionally I'd hear Samuel posts a question to us which he already has an answer for it "Can a man marry a man?" Then he would answer "對啦，不可以！" and on and on. They actually remember what we teach them!

I heard that during the prop 8 thingy, many younger generation even from churches voted for yes on same-sex marriage. They care more of their friends who are homosexual rather than the truth. I teach my children that we don't hate the people who are homosexual, but because we love the people we want to tell them the truth that can set them free and free indeed. They are in bondage and suffering. We want to help them to be free and enjoy the true gift of marriage between 1 man and 1 woman.

I want to teach my children when they're still young. When I was 6 I didn't know what abortion was and I've never heard that man marries man and etc. But this generation is different from our generation when we were kids. One time we saw man kissing man /woman kissing woman in a public place and I redirect my kids to the opposite direction because I don't want them to watch that. I had never seen that when I was 6. Our children need to be raised in solid foundation on God's Word when they're young. Feed them the truth of God's Word before the world dump on them the trash of devil's scheme.

More wisdom on parents, Lord! More wisdom on children, Lord!

And Lord, I pray that our LOVE may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that we may approve the things that are excellent, that we may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God!