Khatarta telefishinku u leeyahay carruurta ayaa inta badan dadka intooda badan u qarsoon, oo ay ku jiraan Masiixiyiinta. Dadka intooda badan wax dhib ah uma arkaan daawashada telefishinka. Waxay dhahaan, in telefishinku uu saamayn togan ku leeyahay korriinka carruurta. What effect has watching television on the mind and behavior of children? Let’s look at the spiritual danger of television for children.
The spirit of this world infiltrates the mind through television
Nasiib darro, many Christians are not born again and don’t discern the spiritual realm and the spirits. They don’t see the spiritual dangers and open the door of their lives for evil spirits to enter and take possession of them.
This also happens by watching television. Iyada oo loo marayo telefishanka, the spirit of the world infiltrates the minds of people and makes them believe his lies. The spirit of the world causes them to think and live like the world and become one with the world.
Many Christians don’t know that by watching television, they are being prepared for the imaatinka kan Masiixa ka geesta ah.
By watching television, Christians become lukewarm towards the faith in Christ and indifferent towards sin. They have tolerate and approve of sin instead of considering sin as evil and caasinimada ilaahay. There’s hardly any difference between believers and unbelievers.
Hadda, iyadoo waxaas oo dhan maskaxda lagu hayo, what is the spiritual danger of television for children?
It’s a dangerous time for children to grow up
Children are exposed to many dangers. They grow up in a society that is disconnected from God and His Word. Sanadaha oo dhan, people developed substitutes for God. Sidan, they became independent and wouldn’t need God anymore. Ugu yaraan, taasi waa waxa ay qabaan.
Due to the fact that our society lives without God, children grow up in a world, where almost all the moral values of the Bible (hadalka ilaahay) are gone.
In many Christian families, children are not raised in the Word of God, but in the world’s knowledge, xikmad, iyo natiijooyinka. Children are not corrected by their parents through the Word of God, but they are allowed to do, whatever they want to do.
Many parents compromised and bowed to the will of the child. Because when children don’t get their way, they become angry and whine, ooyid, and yell and that’s not what parents want.
Maya, many parents are busy with other things or tired when they come home from work and don’t want to correct a disobedient child. They want to have some peace and quietness.
And so they use the television to entertain their children and to keep them busy and quiet. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, many times parents don’t know what their children are watching and what happens in those ‘innocent’ children’s programs. But the majority of parents don’t care, as long as their children are quiet.
Is raising children in a free-range style good for children?
The parents let their children have their way and let them decide what they want to do to keep them satisfied. This is the easiest way to raise a child. That way the child can never point a finger at the parents and blame the parents for the way they were raised.
Many parents choose to raise their children in a free-range style because they believe in the lie of the world.
Waxay aaminsan yihiin, that this free-range style is the best way to raise a child. Because science (pedagogues, ritoo-yaro-nafsi) says so.
They think it’s good for children to make their own decisions. But children at the age of 4, 8, 10, ama 12, are not able to make their own decisions.
Instead of seeing positive results and good fruits of this fee-range style, we see the opposite.
We see a decrease in moral values and an increase in rebellion (towards parents, educators, qooys, macallimiinta, deegaanka, and authorities), brutality, dhego adayg, disrespect, kibir, and selfishness. We also see an increase in fear, walaac, niyad jab, Iyo is-dilitaanka.
Television has a big influence on children’s development, maskax, state of mind, and behavior. And because many parents don’t see the spiritual danger of television, many children become victims of this evil tool.
What do children learn from the TV?
Let’s have a look at the spiritual danger of television for children and some well-known educative programs for children.
What do children learn from Dora?
Dora is considered an educative program, because children learn to count, akhri, have environmental awareness, iwm. But what else do children learn from Dora?
Children learn to walk away from home, engage in conversations with ‘strangers’, oo la soco. Barnaamijka tv-ga Dora waxa uu wax baraa caruurta Da'da Cusub, cilmi falaga, iyo sixirka.
Maxay carruurtu ka bartaan Spongebob Squarepants?
Spongebob Squarepants waxay u egtahay mid aan waxba galabsan, laakiin waxa dad badani aanay garanayn, waa in ay u muuqdaan in ay jiraan fariimaha galmada qarsoon. Oo fiiri jilayaasha, oo u eg makhluuqa shaydaan (qaarna xitaa waxay leeyihiin, xubnaha taranka rogan).
Maxay carruurtu ka bartaan Calliou?
Calliou waa wiil geesi ah oo 4 jir ah, Oo si joogto ah u qaylinaya oo ooya, si kasta oo ay waalidkii u sameeyaan. Adigoo barooranaya oo ooya mar kasta, Calliou had iyo jeer wuxuu helaa jidkiisa.
Calliou waa qofka ugu muhiimsan qoyska taasina waxay si cad u muujinaysaa taxanaha oo dhan. Waxa uu ka masayraa walaashii ka yar oo uu inta badan la dagaallamo. Waxaa jirta fursad weyn oo saanqaadayaasha iyo kuwa aan dugsiga gaarin ay la wareegaan dhaqanka Calliou.
Minions waa la jecel yahay?
And let’s not forget the minions, who are taking over the world. Everywhere you go, you see these yellow demonic creatures, that most people find adorable.
Minions are very popular among children, dhallinta, and young adults. They enjoy watching movies like ‘Despicable Me’, ‘Despicable Me II’ (this movie is just a reflection of the devil and his demons (minions)), and ‘The Minions’.
These movies contain violence, galmo, sixir (hypnotizing), iwm..
Waa maxay khatarta telefishanka ee loogu talagalay carruurta?
The danger of television for children is that children are exposed to demonic forces. By watching these programs, evil spirits of rebellion, xanaaq, sixir, sixir, fashmi, damaca, wasakhnimada galmada, gacan ka hadal, dhimasho, iwm. enter the lives of children.
Since children identify themselves in the early stages of life with other characters, they will adopt the behavior of the main characters on television and act the way they act. They assume that this behavior is normal.
A spirit of witchcraft and sorcery
How many times does a toddler or preschooler say, Hocus pocus, you will become a frog! Most parents find this cute and adorable. They don’t mind their child saying that, they may even laugh a little bit. But when a child says something like this, it comes from a spirit of witchcraft. This spirit of witchcraft could have entered the child’s life through a television program that includes witchcraft.
Maybe the child watched a program or movie that contained a witch, like the fairy tales Tangled, The Emperor’s New Groove, The Sword in the Stone, Snow-white and the seven dwarfs, Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty (Maleficent), iwm.
Fairy tales are presented in the natural realm as harmless but they are not harmless in the spiritual realm. Children that say spells are already practicing witchcraft.
There is not only a danger of television for children, but there is also a danger of television for teenagers.
What is the danger of television for teenagers?
The danger of television for teenagers is that they are indoctrinated with the spirit of this world; the spirit of the antichrist and darkness. By watching television teenagers they get the mind of the world and live like the world in darkness.
Teenagers feed their minds with programs like Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, 90210, Vampires Diary, The Haunted Hathaways, Harry Potter movies, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Every Witch Way, and other popular witchcraft and vampire series.
And let’s not forget series like Glee. Glee seems like a nice high school series full of musical songs etc. But Glee is also full of sexual content; sexual intercourse, experimenting, khiyaamo, ilmo iska soo ridid, khaniisnimada, gacan ka hadal, daawo, bad language, Iyo sidaas.
How does television affect the mind and behavior of children?
The devil wants to destroy humanity. He wants to control and destroy the minds of people, oo ay ku jiraan carruurta. He knows that if you control the mind, you control the life. The devil catches children in his evil web of darkness because children are the future.
One of the devil’s ways is by using children’s television. Iyada oo loo marayo telefishanka, the devil influences, defiles, and controls the minds of children.
Through a lack of knowledge of the parents about the danger of television, the devil defiles the minds of children through television.
The television educates children in evil, mugdi, sixir, sixir, Da'da Cusub, Dembiyo, gacan ka hadal, wasakhnimada galmada, iwm. They will adopt the character of the devil and his will.
And just like the devil, the children will hate God, Ciise, iyo Ruuxa Quduuska ah. Children become rebellious and will hate everything that involves Christianity. They don’t want to read the Bible and don’t want to go to church.
And then parents still wonder, why their child has become so selfish, and rebellious and doesn’t want to obey and submit to their authority.
The devil didn’t want to submit to God’s authority and obey Him. We see the same thing happening with the children of this generation.
Waxaa jira waxyaabo ka reeban. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, the majority of children are very lively, qaylo badan, mucaarad ah, dhego adag, disrespectful towards others, danayste, rabsho leh, outrageous, beenaalayaal, iwm.
Is a child too young to understand the Bible and the things of the Kingdom of God?
Many times people say that a child is too young to understand the Bible, the redemptive work of Jesus, the things of the Kingdom of God, and spiritual warfare. As soon as you talk about the devil and demonic powers people try to stop and silence you. Because if you talk about the devil and darkness you may scare children and cause fear and nightmares.
Isn’t that something? A child is allowed ku watch thrillers and horrors and get involved with evil demonic powers, sixir, sixir, sixir, rooxaanta, dhimasho, vampires, zombies, (physical and sexual) gacan ka hadal, warfare, wasakhnimada galmada, iwm., but a child is too young for Jesus Christ; the Word of God and too young to understand the Kingdom of God and spiritual warfare?
Do you see how ridiculous that is? Do you see this wrong mindset many Christians have created?
Parents should raise their children with the Word of God
If parents would raise their children with the Word of God and teach their children in the Word and the spiritual war, and if they would supervise what programs their children watch, then the minds and behavior of children would be so different from what we see today.
Then children would become obedient to God, waalidka, and authorities, respectful, have integrity, jeclaan, willing, waxtar leh, aan kibir badnayn, iwm.
Ciise wuxuu yidhi, Suffer little children, oo ha u diidin, inuu ii yimaado: for of such is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:14, Calaamadee 10:14, Luukos 18:16).
But many parents forbid their children to come to Jesus.
How do they forbid their children to come to Jesus? By not raising them in the Word of God (Kitaabka Quduuska ah) and by not correcting them.
Raising a child in the Bible doesn’t mean quickly reading a few Bible verses after dinner or before a child goes to bed. These things are good, but raising a child in the Bible means teaching the Bible.
Teach a child how to pray and how to live and walk as a born-again Christian. Teach children the difference between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the devil. Markaa sidaas, a child shall live and act according to what the Word says, and not according to what the world says.
Children are never too young to understand the Word
Children are never too young to understand the Bible (Ereyga Eebbe). Si kastaba ha ahaatee, parents should be spiritual and consistent and ‘break’ the will of the child as soon as a child is born. Taas macnaheedu waa, to not always give in to what the child wants and desires. Sidan, the child shall not exalt itself, become prideful, and self-centered, but becomes humble and submit to parents, Ilaahay, iyo Ereyga; Ciise Masiix.
When parents don’t teach a child to submit to the parents, how can a child submit to God? Taasi waa wax aan macquul aheyn! What will happen is, that they will create an imaginary God, and an Ma qiyaasaye Ciise, maskaxdooda, and grow up with this imaginary Jesus. That’s what we see happening around us: adults, who have created their own God, and their own Jesus in their minds.
Therefore don’t forbid children to come to Jesus and the Kingdom. If you don’t claim your child for the Kingdom of God, the devil will claim your child for his kingdom and destroy your child.
Raise your child with the Word of God; Ciise. So that your child gets to know Him, yields to Him, and becomes His soldier; His spiritual warrior in the Kingdom of God.
Don’t lose the next generation to the darkness
Don’t lose the next generation to the darkness, but let’s claim the children for the Kingdom of God. Markaa sidaas, they will preach the gospel; the good news of Jesus Christ and His shaqo furashada and distribute life to people, iyo save souls for the Kingdom of God.
Don’t let a new generation get lost, because of comfort, and selfishness (because you are too busy with yourself, your work, your social life, warbaahinta bulshada, iwm.), but invest in your children. Nurture your children and spend time with them. Discipline and correct them, and raise them in the Word and the Spirit, in the truth and the fear of the Lord.
If you don’t claim your child(caruulooyin) for the Kingdom of God, the devil will claim your child for his kingdom.
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