Charles Spurgeon addresses this...
"It is said by some that children cannot understand the
great mysteries of religion. We even know some Sunday-school teachers
who cautiously avoid mentioning the great doctrines of the gospel,
because they think the children are not prepared to receive them. Alas!
the same mistake has crept into the pulpit; for it is currently
believed, among a certain class of preachers, that many of the doctrines
of the Word of God, although true, are not fit to be taught to the
people, since they would pervert them to their own destruction. Away
with such priestcraft! Whatever God has revealed ought to be preached.
Whatever HE has revealed, if I am not capable of understanding it, I
will still believe and preach it. I do hold that there is no doctrine of
the Word of God which a child, if he be capable of salvation, is not
capable of receiving. I would have children taught all the great
doctrines of truth without a solitary exception, that they may in their
after days hold fast by them.
I can
bear witness that children can understand the Scriptures; for I am sure
that, when but a child, I could have discussed many a knotty point of
controversial theology, having heard both sides of the question freely
stated among my father's circle of friends. In fact, children are
capable of understanding some things in early life, which we hardly
understand afterwards. Children have eminently a simplicity of faith,
and simplicity of faith is akin to the highest knowledge; indeed, I know
not that there is much distinction between the simplicity of a child
and the genius of the profoundest mind. He who receives things simply,
as a child, will often have ideas which the man who is prone to make a
syllogism of everything will never attain unto. If you wish to know
whether children can be taught, I point you to many in our churches, and
in pious families,—not prodigies, but such as we frequently
see,—Timothys and Samuels, and little girls, too, who have early come to
know a Saviour's love. As soon as a child is capable of being lost, it
is capable of being saved. As soon as a child can sin, that child can,
if God's grace assist it, believe and receive the Word of God. As soon
as children can learn evil, be assured that they are competent, under
the teaching of the Holy Spirit, to learn good."
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