A child is a young boy or girl in the care of parents, older than a suckling or an infant, but not yet an adolescent. "Children" are sometimes used as a name for a large group of descendants of one person, such as the Children of Israel, or even all human beings as the Children of Men. A child represents innocence and charity, where innocence is the willingness to be led, and charity is love. This is why Jesus blessed them and suggested that we all become like children in order to enter heaven.

When people lie or speak falsely in the Bible, it represents the "falsity of faith" and the resulting "evil of faith." This is what happens when people form their ideas based on bad information and incorrect assumptions. This leads to wrong ways of thinking and evil.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 924; Arcana Coelestia 8908 [3-4], 9248)