ABSTRACT
Ideas of right and wrong and their accompanying moral concepts cannot be separated from questions of individual responsibility. The results indicate that the concept of chosenness, from a theological evaluation, is very difficult to achieve, dependent as it is upon some sense of history, the development of altruistic motives and many other experiences. Children in Infant and Junior schools share fairly similar misunderstandings about God's concern for men up to about the age of ten to eleven years. There appears to be an unconscious resistance among many teachers to informing their pupils that the Bible is not history, but a theological interpretation of history. The sense of outrage or betrayal, which is often voiced by adolescents, can be avoided if children are introduced to non-literal approaches to Bible truth.
