2. Some parents can be trusted, others cannot »Ahaz was an evil father, 2 Kgs. 16:1-4 »Hezekiah did not trust his father, 2 Kgs. 18:1-7 »Manasseh did not trust Hezekiah, 2 Kgs. 21:1-6

3. Can you trust your parents? »Yes: with many things »No: regarding your soul »You must investigate truth for yourself

5. May be deceived or deceiving you, 2 Tim. 3:13; Titus 3:3 »Raised in error themselves »Never questioned beliefs & practices »May want to believe it, despite doubts »May want you to believe it for family tradition

6. May be willfully ignorant of God’s word, 2 Pt. 3:5 »Afraid of consequences »Do not want to accept reality

7. May be apathetic toward religion & afterlife, Mt. 25:7, 8 »Busy with job »Pursuing entertainment »Caught up in hobbies »Unwilling to face mortality

8. May be religiously sincere, but sincerely wrong, Mt. 7:21-23; 15:14 »Dedicated & zealous »Devout »Full of hope

9. Few parents are committed to the truth, Mt. 7:13, 14; 2 Tim. 1:3-5 »Must develop own faith, Acts 17:11 »Cannot go to heaven on parents’ faith, 2 Cor. 5:10 »Be your own person

10. Are your parents the standard of truth? »Ask a teenager! »Observe various beliefs in different homes »Man not the standard, Jer. 10:23

11. Is science the standard of truth? »Changing theories »Lack of knowledge »False knowledge, 1 Tim. 6:20, 21

12. Are religious organizations the standard of truth? »Which one would be right? »Are they all right? »Man not the standard, Prov. 14:12

13. The Bible is the standard of truth, Jn. 17:17 »Revealed by God, 1 Cor. 2:9-13 »Unchanging, 1 Pt. 1:22-25 »All else a lie, Rom. 3:4

14. Were you taught about the one true God? »Created the world in six days, Gen. 1 »Made man in His image, Gen. 1:26, 27 »Rules over the world now

15. What were you taught about religion? »Christianity, Jn. 14:6; Heb. 8:6 »One true church, Eph. 1:22, 23; 4:4-6 »One faith, Eph. 4:4-6; 1 Tim. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 »False doctrine damns souls, 1 Tim. 4:1-5; 2 Jn. 9

16. Were you taught God’s plan of salvation? »Hear, Rom. 10:17 »Believe, Rom. 10:9-13 »Confess, Rom. 10:9-13 »Repent, Acts 3:19 »Be baptized, Acts 2:38 »Be faithful, 2 Pt. 2:18-22

18. Some parents can be trusted, others cannot »Ahaz was an evil father, 2 Kgs. 16:1-4 »Hezekiah did not trust his father, 2 Kgs. 18:1-7 »Manasseh did not trust Hezekiah, 2 Kgs. 21:1-6

19. Can you trust your parents? »Yes: with many things »No: regarding your soul »You must investigate truth for yourself