My first grader came home with a mini book this past week about animals and the homes they live in... a monkey lives in a tree, a groundhog lives underground, a deer lives in the forest... you get the picture. It was a nice little story until the very last page when the author said something like Tom and Mandy live in a house. They are just like animals. What?!? Maybe the book was poorly written, but it sure sounded to my husband and I that the author was equating humans to animals.I know I've talked about it before, but this was another reminder to me that the desire to indoctrinate our children at a very young age is very real. This particular situation gave us the opportunity to talk to our daughter about how God made us in His image and we are not made just like the animals.
If the book had said something like Tom and Mandy live in a house just like animals live in their own houses; I would have been okay with that. But we are definitely not made just like the animals and for that I am very thankful!
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)
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