An Explaination of God, by an 8yr old.
Written by Danny Dutton, age 8, from Chula Vista, California,
for his third grade homework assignment to "Explain God".
Read on...
"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 here 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 besides bedtime. God doesn't have
time to listen to the radio or TV on account of this. Since
He hears everything, not only prayers, there must be a terrible
lot of noise in His ears, unless He has thought of a way to
turn it off.
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 parent'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 trying to teach
the people who didn't want to learn about God. They 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 OK.
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.
Like a secretary, only more important, of course. You can
pray anytime you want and they are sure to hear 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 anyboby 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 very good 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."