“But little children are holy, being sanctified through the atonement of Jesus Christ; and this is what the scriptures mean.”
Children are the most loving and pure people on God’s green earth. They are born perfect and pure, ready to learn to and to molded. It is the responsibility of the parents to teach them the gospel and to love these precious children. It is crazy to me that some people would treat children so harshly or to neglect them. To think poorly of a child is ridiculous, they have so much potential that we can never determine their worth to the Lord and to the world.
Little children are holy because they are without sin. The mistakes they make are not sins because they do not yet understand the consequences of their actions. I have been studying recently about how children learn. The things small children do that are annoying are not done out of malice, but because they are learning about their world through their actions. Such as a child who drops their spoon at the dinner table repeatedly. They are not trying to be annoying, they just discovered gravity and the effects it has on a spoon, namely a cool sound and a funny reaction from mom.
The child is not aware yet of their wrong so they are still holy. Much like how Adam and Eve were pure until after they ate of the tree of knowledge. I imagine that they were doing some things that we would have considered wrong, but it was not wrong because they were not aware that it was wrong. This is the same for little children who are yet to realize their wrongs.
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