I am religious but have not baptized my children?

I have taught my children that Jesus Christ is their savior and about god and they say prayers because they want to not because i make them, they love saying grace even when not asked, we do not go to church, I have not yet found a church i really love, we go sometimes but not on a regular basis, I have not yet baptized them, will they go to heaven? We also believe to not baptize them until they were a bit older and can choose their own religion we do not want to put religion on them, he religion we believe but let them find their own way. although they seem to choose our path with the way they love going to church when we do go, and love saying grace and prayers and love hearing bible stories, we got them a childrens book of bible stories and prayers and they choose that book over others for a bed time story, they do this all on their own, we do also do not go to church because we as a branch of christian, Methodist, we believe your house of god can be where you feel fit and as long as you believe and pray and have been baptized and saved you do not have to go to church to prove your love and loyalty and faith to god to others, you can have a personal relationship with god and Jesus Christ wherever you feel fit. But hwat about our children? are we making the wrong decision? should they be baptized/christianed now? they are 5 and 6? Thank you to all who answer.God bless
I never said anything about my religion not being true or not believing it true. And i do not practice it but I live it. I teach my children all I know. I have two nephews who have went to church every Sunday their whole lives and they are 6, and my children know as much as them. I do not see how you could say this, when i never spoke of it. Thank you.

outsmarted by a 4 yr old in regards to Jesus?

okay you guys tell me…have I been outwitted by my 4 yr old nephew?

never laughed so hard in my life tonight….
THe whole family is kind of non religious christians…so when my nephew came carrying the book of childrens bible songs to me, I thought nothing of it as I taught him how to do the hand signs to deep and wide,…etc….we get to the last page and its the “jesus loves me” song….I start singing it, and he says…”he not loves me” To which I reply…yes he does, he saved us. he points at the cartoon drawing of Jesus, and says … I dont love him….him not save me…did he save you?
kind of dumbfounded at this point that he has never actually heard about Jesus in this family,,,,wondering if my own daughter has a clue….

so I start to change the subject….when he says….

He didnt save me………..I am NOT in that story!

sure enough, we looked …none of those kids in that picture were my nephew…

having no response….we all just cracked up…my 4 yr old nephew had outsmarted me!

would you agree?
Supertop: he is just a kid…It was extremely sharp of him to look at the pictures and take notice of the fact that not only did he NOT know the guy I was talking about, he also reckognised that he was NOT in that story!
BK: I could have told him a lot of things…but he isnt my kid…I dont tell other peoples kids what to believe!

Christians and witnessing……?

how do you get in a word about Jesus?
Many people are either mis-informed or know next to nothing about the content of the bible.
I have noticed many people are more willing to listen and many more shocked to hear the true character God and the richness of the words Jesus when you actually get to refer to it.
To me it seems they think the bible is just filled with childrens stories and rules.
I would love to lay it all out and answer questions for them but it’s hard when it seems like they are just “giving it a chance”, you know?
So my question is, how do you, personally, keep it from being a systematic “project conversion” and really find yourself wowing people with Jesus?
I really only want Christians to answer, so it’ d be nice if those who don’t have a genuine answer would be respectful and not make this a “religion issue”.
There is more to God than just “religion” believe it or not. The verse reads “in the beginning there was the Word” not “in the beginning there was religion”

Why does Jesus allow Evil things happen to his followers and believers ?

Did Deanna Laney bash her childrens brains because the bible told her to do it ?

“Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” (Psalms 137:9, KJV)

“How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.” (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

“Happy the man who shall seize and smash your little ones against the rock!” (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

“a blessing on anyone who seizes your babies and shatters them against a rock!” (Psalms 137:9, Jerusalem Bible)

Deanna Laney bashed in her childrens brains with a rock as ordered by GOD.

TYLER, Texas – A jury on Saturday began deliberating whether a homemaker was insane when she used rocks to bludgeon two of her sons to death and severely injure a third after receiving what she claimed were orders from God.
He recounted Joshua’s killing: “He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid.”
Defense attorney began her argument by asking the jury why a DEEPLY RELIGIOUS woman would kill two of her children and maim another without so much as a tear.

Laney, who home-schooled her children in the tiny town of New Chapel Hill, 100 miles southeast of Dallas, was convinced she was divinely chosen by God to kill her children last Mother’s Day weekend.

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=53918

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ANDREA YATES – KILLED HER 4 CHILDREN

Much of Andrea’s psychosis had religious imagery. She was obsessed with images of Satan.
About the murders, she told her doctor, “It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren’t
righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved… Better for someone else to tie a millstone around their neck and cast them into a river than to stumble. They were going to parish [in Hell].” She said that, “Governor [George W.] Bush would have to destroy Satan.”

http://www.christianitymeme.org/yates.shtml

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/12/slain.children/

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DENA SCHLOSSER – CUT OFF HER INFANTS ARMS

SHE SAID — “In the Book of Matthew, Jesus says: “If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2694472&nav=EyAzUDQV

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LISA MONTGOMERY – CUT OPEN A MOTHER – TOOK BABY TO PASTOR

MELVERN, Kan. – A woman charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was showing the child off to people at a cafe and to her pastor hours before she was arrested, residents said Saturday.

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Philip Badowski breaks chainsaw while cutting up the bodies of his Christian Missionary Parents

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Dec 11, 2004 — A college student who admitted he fatally shot his parents in their bedroom and broke a chain saw cutting up their bodies told investigators: “GOD told me to.”

He said the killings were “spur of the moment” after his parents scolded him when they returned from a weeklong missionary trip to Haiti.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=321584

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Why didnt Jesus save these missionarys from being chainsawed by their son ?

“Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” (Psalms 137:9, KJV)

“How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.” (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

“Happy the man who shall seize and smash your little ones against the rock!” (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

“a blessing on anyone who seizes your babies and shatters them against a rock!” (Psalms 137:9, Jerusalem Bible)

Deanna Laney bashed in her childrens brains with a rock as ordered by GOD.

TYLER, Texas – A jury on Saturday began deliberating whether a homemaker was insane when she used rocks to bludgeon two of her sons to death and severely injure a third after receiving what she claimed were orders from God.
He recounted Joshua’s killing: “He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid.”
Defense attorney began her argument by asking the jury why a DEEPLY RELIGIOUS woman would kill two of her children and maim another without so much as a tear.

Laney, who home-schooled her children in the tiny town of New Chapel Hill, 100 miles southeast of Dallas, was convinced she was divinely chosen by God to kill her children last Mother’s Day weekend.

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=53918

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ANDREA YATES – KILLED HER 4 CHILDREN

Much of Andrea’s psychosis had religious imagery. She was obsessed with images of Satan.
About the murders, she told her doctor, “It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren’t
righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved… Better for someone else to tie a millstone around their neck and cast them into a river than to stumble. They were going to parish [in Hell].” She said that, “Governor [George W.] Bush would have to destroy Satan.”

http://www.christianitymeme.org/yates.shtml

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/12/slain.children/

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DENA SCHLOSSER – CUT OFF HER INFANTS ARMS

SHE SAID — “In the Book of Matthew, Jesus says: “If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2694472&nav=EyAzUDQV

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LISA MONTGOMERY – CUT OPEN A MOTHER – TOOK BABY TO PASTOR

MELVERN, Kan. – A woman charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was showing the child off to people at a cafe and to her pastor hours before she was arrested, residents said Saturday.

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Philip Badowski breaks chainsaw while cutting up the bodies of his Christian Missionary Parents

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Dec 11, 2004 — A college student who admitted he fatally shot his parents in their bedroom and broke a chain saw cutting up their bodies told investigators: “GOD told me to.”

He said the killings were “spur of the moment” after his parents scolded him when they returned from a weeklong missionary trip to Haiti.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=321584

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