Young Minds

October 2, 2007

Tucking JG in for the night was accompanied by some interesting conversation. I will roughly outline the questions without elaborating as the interest is in the questions themselves.

The question that started it all came from BG. She asked, "Are dinosaurs real?"

RG: Some in the Bible times, but they are all dead now.

BG: There aren't any alive now?

RG: No, it's like people in the Bible are all dead now. They got old and died. Like our grandparents and their grandparents.

JG: They're dead? Why are they dead? Where did they go? When people die can they still walk?

RG told him a little bit about the body, spirit, at death, spirit leaves, God is Spirit. He blew into Adam who He shaped out of mud. We can't see air or spirit, so we don't know what God looks like, but we know what Jesus looks like.

JG: So are there two men? How do people go up to heaven?

RG: God pulls them up.

JG: With His hand? How does God go up high in heaven? He will bump His head. Is he so big [gesturing with his hands]? How did God get so big? Does God have bones? Does He have a beard? How does hair grow?

RG: It's like grass.

JG: Oh, I know, it's all grass under the dirt.

RG: It's time to go to sleep JG. God doesn't sleep.

JG: He doesn't sleep? He stays awake? I'm scared to go up to heaven.

RG: You don't have to right now. God loves you, JG.

JG: Will we stay there forever?

RG: If we live for Jesus we will go to heaven and live there forever.

JG: But I'm scared.

RG: God loves you and He chases away your scaredness so when you know He loves you, you don't have to be scared because He watches over us. You will go to sleep, but He will not sleep.

[sang "Heaven is a wonderful place"]