I love the innocence of kids and those questions they suddenly present us with. My little cousins are quite inquisitive and we were at Borders today looking at a book on Space when R turns to me and said something like:
'Isn't it strange how people came up with inventing God?'
remember the kid is six and I think his question was more inquisitive of origins and belief rather than anything. Problem is that they are forever asking the 'Why' question and so you start explaining and inevitably more questions arise. I was rather amused by the above question and they way they asked and explained that it was rather the other way around.
Me: God wasn't invented by anyone.
R : Then how is he here.
Me: Well God has always been here. He 'invented' us.
R: Yeah but he had to come from somewhere.
Me: No God has always been there and he created us, the universe and everything within it.
R: Even black holes?
Me: Yes, even black holes.
R: But nothing exists in black holes.
Me: Yes but they are there even so.
The conversation flowed into stars, the planets and galaxies afterwards but I do love the questions kids come up with. I know in this case it was rather simple, but sometimes I find they are like a training ground for when we come up against people who want to knock us off our Christian paths by fencing us in with questions they demand answers to but sometimes we find hard to answer. It isn't that we don't have answers, but sometimes people are so determined to derail us that they throw everything at us and try to confuse us.
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