Dr. Jack Hyles #fundie

Dr. Jack Hyles #fundie jackhyles.net

[This is generally what we call being overzealous.]

QUESTION: At what age should the parent begin teaching the Bible to the child?

ANSWER: I taught the Bible to each of our children as soon as he was home from the hospital. Every night I would tell a Bible story. I would act it out. I would take stories like "Jonah and the Whale," "David and Goliath," "Daniel in the Lion's Den," etc. and tell the entire story using such things as pantomime, monologue, etc. I did this practically every night at bedtime from the time the children were a week old.

QUESTION: At what age should the child be taught the plan of salvation?

ANSWER: I taught our children the plan of salvation regularly from the time they came home from the hospital. Now I do not know when such truths begin to register in the mind of a child. Since I do not know when, I want to be sure I am telling the child the truth of God and the way to Heaven when that time does arrive.

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Ok, I did a little research on this guy:
1.) He died in 2001, so arguing with him is a moot point.
2.) He was the typical evangelical preacher, who feared, children would be destroyed by humanism, evolution and sex ed. (His statements in the 70's)
3.) He was dead set against cursing, he even censored "damm" in his sermons.
4.) Seems like an advocate of "tough love" towards children. (Ex: Discipline is good and children love it.)
5.) You should give your child to adoption (via the church!) if you're an unmarried mother. The child needs a father.
6.) He seems to have had an affair with the married woman of one of his deacons. He payed her for the time of the affair (over 10 years). Always in cash.
7.) He was accused of having more such affairs.
8.) His son David was accused of physical abuse of a child, which led to the child's death. The son refused testimony under the 5th amendment. (to lazy to search for the case files, sorry). The Case was never closed, because the child was embalmend and burried before someboddy asked questions... And there are more nice storries about David.
9.) He was accused of protecting one or more child molesters serving in his ministry.
10.) He seemed to have run his church like a cult and was compared to Jim Jones.

So, a really nice man full of christian values and great teaching concepts. Now I gonna need a bath, because I feel dirty.

Sources: Wikipedia entry (the sources), the linked page with his online sermons and books, the jack hyles story by robert sumner. (Robert Sumner is an selfdescribed fundamentalist who felt that he had to uncover the scandals of Jack Hyles; interestingly enough, he waited after hyles was dead...) and a conservative babylon entry on the son.

Dr. Jack Hyles #fundie jackhyles.net

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