In our time, it is necessary to avoid telling the Law of God in the form of a naïve fairy tale (as they say "childishly"), because the child will understand it as a fairy tale. When he becomes an adult, he will have a gap between the teaching of the Law of God and his perception of the world, as we often observe in the life around us. For many modern people with higher education, knowledge in the field of the Law of God has remained only from the school bench of the first grades, i.e. in the most primitive form, which, of course, cannot satisfy all the needs of the mind of an adult. And the children themselves, growing up in modern conditions and developing faster than usual, often have the most serious and painful questions. Such questions that many parents and adults are completely unable to answer.

All these circumstances put forward the primary task - to give into the hands not only of children in church schools, but also of the parents, teachers and educators themselves, or better to say the family, the school of the Law of God. For this, as practice shows, it is necessary to give one book that contains all the foundations of the Christian faith and life.

In view of the fact that many of the students may never take the Holy Communion into their hands. Bible, and will be content with only one textbook, then this situation requires from the textbook the absolute correctness of the transmission of the Word of God. Not only should there be no distortion, but not even the slightest inaccuracy in the exposition of the Word of God.

We have seen many textbooks, especially for the lower grades, in which inaccuracies and sometimes inaccuracies were allowed in the transmission of the Word of God. Let's give a few examples, starting with small ones.

In textbooks it is often written: "Moses' mother wove a basket of reeds"... In the Bible it is said: "She took a basket of reeds and tarred it with asphalt and pitch"... (Exodus 2:3). At first glance, this seems to be a "trifle", but this "trifle" is further reflected in a larger one.

So, in most textbooks they write that Goliath blasphemed, blasphemed the name of God. When in the Word of God it is said thus: "Am I not a Philistine, and you are servants of Saul?.. today I will put to shame the armies of Israel, give me a man, and we will fight together"... And the Israelites said, "Do you see this man speaking? He comes out to revile Israel"... (1 Samuel 17:8, 10, 25). And David himself testifies when he says to Goliath: "Thou comest against me with sword and spear and shield, but I come against thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, which thou hast reproached" (1 Samuel 17:45).

It is said quite clearly and definitely that Goliath did not laugh at God at all, but at the armies of Israel.

But there are mistakes-distortions that were fatal for many people, for example, the story of the flood. In the overwhelming majority of textbooks they are content to say that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and filled the earth with water, covering all the high mountains.

In the Holy Scriptures itself. The Bible says quite differently: "... On this day all the fountains of the great deep were opened, and the windows of heaven were opened; and rain poured down on the earth forty days and forty nights"... "And the waters increased upon the earth a hundred and fifty days" (Gen. 7:11-12; 24).

And in the next chapter it says: "... and the waters began to decrease at the end of a hundred and fifty days..." "On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared" (Gen. 8:3; 5).

Divine Revelation says with utmost clarity that the flood intensified for almost half a year, and not at all for 40 days. Then the water began to subside, and only in the 10th month did the tops of the mountains appear. This means that the flood lasted at least one year. This is especially important and essential to know in our rationalistic time, for scientific geological data fully confirm this.

Let us point out one more very important circumstance. All textbooks, with very few exceptions, mistake the days of creation for our ordinary days. Each textbook begins like this: "God created the world in six days...", i.e. in other words, in a week. And, after all, in our time, such words that do not exist in the Bible are the strangest for schoolchildren. These words are always used by the atheists, but it is precisely these words that are a complete distortion, at the very beginning, of Divine Revelation. These words cause doubts in an unapproved person, and then everything else of the Holy Scriptures is not allowed. Scripture begins to be rejected by him, recognized as unnecessary and the fruit of human imagination. This is exactly what the writer of these lines had to go through, when he necessarily listened to anti-religious lectures at school.

The question of the days of creation, in the conditions of our time, cannot be ignored. Moreover, we find an explanation of this question as early as the 4th century in the Holy Scriptures. Basil the Great, in his book "The Six Days", in St. John of Damascus, as well as in St. John Chrysostom, in St. Clement of Alexandria, at St. Athanasius the Great, in Bl. Augustine and others.

Our day (day) depends on the sun, and in the first three days of creation, there was no sun itself, which means that our days were not ours. What the days of creation were is unknown, for "with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day" (2 Peter 3:8). But one thing we can assume is that these days were not instants, this is evidenced by the consistency, the gradualness of creation. And the Holy Fathers call the "seventh day" the entire period from the creation of the world to the present day and continuing until the end of the world.