CHILDREN INTERPRET THE BIBLE
The following is taken from an Associated Press release in The Daily Herald, November 15, 1997 edition: The most important commandment: “Thou shalt not lie. Your mother and God will find out the truth anyways.” The overriding message of the Old Testament: “Don’t be a bad boy or girl. You should listen to God or you might end up in a whale.” And when God asked Cain what happened to Abel, Cain’s reply: “I want to see my lawyer before I answer any more questions, God.” Ask elementary school children about some of the best-known figures and stories of the Bible, and the responses are refreshingly honest, personal and lighthearted. In a paperback book, Just Build the Ark and the Animals Will Come: Kids Talk About Those Amazing Bible Stories, children reveal a theological perspective of God who is familiar, not remote in the heavens. “For kids, it has meaning to them in the sense it is a personal God…
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