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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
I don't know...I think He can do that...I'm sure that in the past He has or perhaps He just allowed things to happen rather than particularly orchestrating them...
On the other hand, it sounds almost like the same line of logic that says if a church member disobeys the pastor, and then has some sort of ill event occur that it was God showing the pastor what the person did or punishing that person...I'm not sure He works exactly like that or if those conclusions can be drawn.
As for my own children...I certainly think God speaks to parents, and sometimes I think God allows things to happen in a child's life to teach the child a lesson, and not necessarily to apprise the parent of what is going on.
So I guess...I don't know. I think He can, but I don't know that He does or that He will....I also don't think that if He doesn't reveal a child's disobedience that it necessarily translates into God not honouring the authority of the parent.....
I don't know that God punishes children in order to honour the authority of a parent....
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I agree with this completely. I am not sure if it is supernatural or not, but I think there is an intuition that most parents have that helps them see into the lives of their kids. I can tell when my kid is lying even when they tell a very very compelling story. My kid can pull the wool over my lovely's eyes but not mine, and my honey is astounded how I can tell the difference between what is the truth. It gives me a little more credibility in the kid's eyes and makes them think twice before contemplating telling a lie.