Explaining God -- an 8 year old's perspective

[Note: I received this in my email this morning from my aunt].

EXPLAINING GOD
by Danny Dutton, 8-year-old


One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die, so there will be enough people to take care of things on earth. He doesn't make grown-ups, just babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way He doesn't have to take up His valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. He can just leave that to mothers and fathers.

God's second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things, pray at times beside bedtime. God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or TV because of this. God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere, which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting His time by going over your Mom and Dad's head asking for something they said you couldn't have.

Atheists are people who don't believe in God. I don't think there are any in Chula Vista. At least there aren't any who come to our church.

Jesus is God's Son. He used to do all the hard work like walking on water and performing miracles and people finally got tired of Him preaching to them and they crucified Him. But He was good and kind, like His Father and He told His Father that they didn't know what they were doing and to forgive them and God said "O.K."

His Dad (God) appreciated everything that He had done and all His hard work on earth so He told Him He didn't have to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So He did. And now He helps His Dad out by listening to prayers and seeing things which are important for God to take care of and which ones He can take care of Himself without having to bother God. Kind of like a secretary, only more important.

You can pray anytime you want and they are sure to help you because they got it worked out so one of them is on duty all the time. You should always go to church on Sunday because it makes God happy, and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God. Don't skip church to do something you think will be more fun like going to the beach. This is wrong. And besides the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon anyway.

If you don't believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can. It is good to know He's around you when you're scared in the dark or when you can't swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids. But... you shouldn't just always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and He can take me back anytime He pleases. And that's why I believe in God.

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amazing..

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A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of
feeling, but there should be an abiding, peaceful trust.
Steps to Christ, p. 70.

It's a really cool email, but it probably wasn't written by an 8-year-old, due to the complex vocabulary and sentence structure. See http://www.snopes.com/glurge/dutton.htm for more information.

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Still Christian Forums for me.

I think they might have just revised it so all of the "Him" "He" and "His"'s are capitalized and maybe done some of the structuring and punctuation..

pretty cool email though

Maybe they did like my sister and I do (she's 3). She tells me what to type to Grandma, and I inadvertently correct the grammar and sentence structure.

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the wisdom's in the trees, not the glass windows.

I think that this is so sweet! I know that if I asked my 9 year old, he could tell me something about Jesus and God, but not to that extent. Great job to that 8 year old!

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Liz
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