The path of salvation is the path of blind, passive, mechanical obedience.

To deviate even a little from that path is to incur the penalty of eternal death.
* * * * * As Man is educated by his father, God, so must the child be educated by his father, the adult man.

If the nature of Man is intrinsically evil, the child must needs have been conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity.

If Man, even in his maturity, cannot be trusted to think or desire or do what is right, still less can he be so trusted when he is that relatively immature and helpless being, the child.

If the adult man has to be told in the fullest detail (whether by a formulated Law or by a living Church) how he is to conduct himself, still greater is the need for such or similar direction to be given to the child.