Is it a sin to lie to your little gullible children?

I thought Saint Nicholas was actually a real person its just americans and coca-cola who've embellished the story. lol

We can all do as Saint Nicholas did which was give gifts (anonymously) to poor children during the hardest times (middle of winter) and pray they'll be blessed.

What if I tell them Santa is fiction, but still do all of the fun Santa stuff?

I've lived in the south my entire life and I have rarely seen a family not celebrate Christmas with Santa. No big deal, it's just been my experience.

I don't know that he was gone for giving specifically to children. I think some of the daughters of the poor were being sold off as slaves, so he gave money for their dowries so that they could marry.

I think some Canadians may lie to their children about Santa, too. Are there other countries where it is widespread for the parents to tell their children that Santa delivers presents at Christmas? Does the storyline change a bit between countries?

Seems like an american thing.
After all The Night before Christmas was a poem that was written by an American (New Yorker) C Clement Moore for his children. I guess it just caught american children's imagination.

Americans seem not to know much how Christmas is celebrated outside their own nation. lol

Is it a sin to lie to your own little gullible children, who trust you, and convince them that a magic fat man in a read suit flies around the world on a sleigh pulled by reindeer, goes down all the chimneys in the world and delivers all the children gifts over night?

Is it wrong to teach your children to write prayers as letters, materialistic prayers asking for toys, to a deceased, but heavily venerated saint?

If you tell your children lies about a magic fat man flying around the world, then tell them that God raised Jesus from the dead, how will that impact their faith when they find out you were lying about the magic fat man?

more importantly would you consider it's a sin to withhold the truth from your children. I can think of many situations I have.

But Remember Samuel was told to say he was going to make a sacrifice at Jesse's place, but the more important reason Samuel was going to anoint king David

God actually told him what to say. It was truthful but not everything was told.

Samuel Anoints David
16 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”

2 But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.”

The Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.

The important part of a child growing up is, there mind and imagination is still developing, it's important for a child to develop an imagination, it helps there mind to develop where they learn to distinguish between fantasy and reality,

If we told our children everything is a lie they would become unimaginative and probably spoil so many other children's dreams, plus they would probably become legalistic.

In a time when there developing an imagination this would not be Good.

And beside this I've always told my kids when they asked me will Santa bring me gifts this year, I say well you never know he could do,

Or you could say hey you might get a visit of santa if your Good of course that Santa would be me 😜

You do not have to lie to children to help their imagination grow or for them to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Little boys need to be brave, so does that justify kidnapping them?

there's a difference between lying and witholding the truth.

From Google -----

Lying is only one of many forms of deception, which occurs anytime you knowingly allow someone to believe something that is not true. And, yes…lies of omission (intentionally withholding information) are deception, too.

I say --------Deception comes from Satan not God ------we are to display a Christ like Character -----so is deceiving your children displaying a Christ like character ?????????????????????---

I take it your not a parent either

How wrong you are -------

From Google -----

Lying is only one of many forms of deception, which occurs anytime you knowingly allow someone to believe something that is not true.

I have seen Millennials use these lousy redefinition of the word on TV. Not telling someone something is not lying.

I have seen Millennials use these lousy redefinition of the word on TV. Not telling someone something is not lying.

but on the other hand I've always heard children call there parents a liar when they told them Santa may not be coming to see you this year for Christmas.

See if you can tell me what this means to you.
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If your sentences were in one place, were more coherent, and didn't say the opposite of what you intended, then I might guess what you mean.

Toddlers don't usually call their parents liars. They are usually still learning to talk. If you don't lie to children and tell them a magic fat man gives them presents, then they usually won't believe that.

If your sentences were in one place, were more coherent, and didn't say the opposite of what you intended, then I might guess what you mean.

Toddlers don't usually call their parents liars. They are usually still learning to talk. If you don't lie to children and tell them a magic fat man gives them presents, then they usually won't believe that.