The prophecy regarding the destruction of Jerusalem clearly portrays Jehovah as a God who ‘causes his people to know new things before they begin to spring up.’ —Isaiah 42:9.
Yet people can break away from such moral degradation, for, as Paul states, “In those very things you, too, once walked when you used to live in them.” —Colossians 3:5-7; Ephesians 4:19; see also 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.
In one Christian family, the parents stimulate open communication by encouraging their children to ask questions about things that they do not understand or that cause concern.
“I regularly learned wonderful things about plants and organic life, but I attributed everything to evolution, since this made us look as if we were in harmony with scientific thinking.”
According to the Authorized or King James Version, these verses say: “For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
(Psalm 78:41) How pained he must be today when youths reared “in the discipline and mental-regulating of Jehovah” secretly do wrong things! —Ephesians 6:4.