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Date Posted: 22:40:26 03/18/01 Sun
Author: Everyone
Subject: In case you hadn't noticed...
In reply to: John Kou 's message, "Interesting article for everyone" on 22:13:43 04/15/99 Thu

There's nobody here that you're talking with, so 'Everyone' is you.

>Written by Danny Dutton, age 8, from Chula Vista,
>California, for his third grade homework assignment to
>"Explain God".
>
>"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.

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