Aussie Thoughts
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Dang! I never thought about that.His main concern is that he'll be bored if eternity is for eternity!
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LOL... that little guy can sure mess with your head!
Maitreya
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The boy is wonderful. I love him, just like I love all children, but this child also makes me laugh. He has humor but a cheeky kind of humor. Ha ha ha.
Aussie Thoughts
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Most of us struggle to get our kids to think. Here's one that gets the adults to think and he doesn't even break a sweat doing it!LOL... that little guy can sure mess with your head!
I don't know... I find kids think quite a bit....it is often that adults don't listen....
Or they shut down creative thinking and contemplation...
Or they shut down creative thinking and contemplation...
Aussie Thoughts
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Aussie, you made a comment on another threat that reminded me of something my grandnephew said when he was in the 3rd or 4th grade. He came home from school all frustrated and began spouting off. "As if God didn't have enough names already, they have to go and throw in 3 more!" His mother asked him who [they] were and what that had to do with God. "School mom. They keep calling God biology, evolution and science." Mind you, God was never mentioned directly in any of his classes. He drew that inference completely on his own.
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Aussie Thoughts
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LOL... I'm starting to like that kid more and more!
Good news. My grandnephew is no longer concerned about being bored in eternity. His reasoning? Well, he figures boredom is what led God to make us in the first place. So in his way of thinking, God would not allow us to become bored in eternity, because he doesn't want to be bored again.Dang! I never thought about that.
BigJoeNobody
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Now that sounds like my son's reasoning. Although he says God is going to let him play with real dinosaurs...
Aussie Thoughts
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Can't argue with that logic.
Now that's interesting. Take a look at this link I found.
http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml
Check out the way Behemoth is described in Job 40:15-24
"It “eats grass like an ox.”
It “moves his tail like a cedar.”
(In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”)
Its “bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.”
“He is the first of the ways of God.”
“He lies under the lotus trees,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.”
Check out the way Behemoth is described in Job 40:15-24
"It “eats grass like an ox.”
It “moves his tail like a cedar.”
(In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”)
Its “bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.”
“He is the first of the ways of God.”
“He lies under the lotus trees,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.”
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BigJoeNobody
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Heard this theory before. His comes from playing video games and reading Dinosaur books (like Nat Geo... He HATES kiddie dino books because he says they are fake.)
Aussie Thoughts
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Sounds like a smart kid. What's his age? Mine's grown now, nearly 17, but I don't think he had much of an interest in dinos when he was a lad. Living down here, there's too many other strange creatures to ponder.
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BigJoeNobody
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His answer is usually 5 3/4 ... which is now getting changed to "almost 6". He's certainly smart, and ambitious. So far he's declared he will be a Zoologist, Paleantologist, Veterinarian (SP?), "Explorer", Professional Soccer player (in US, Turkey and Europe... his idea in that order), and "If I have time an Astronaut"... He is currently studying arabic in Sunday School and already knows more than me. He knows some Turkish (mostly stuff he wants from his grandparents like Juice and Dinosaurs). And he can read at about a 3rd grade level. I think he'll outsmart me by Middle School.
My grandnephew hears things like any other kid, but his interpretations are strictly his own.
Aussie Thoughts
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LOL... I can see it now. Flash forward 30 years... "Captain Nobody, it's time to suit up for the Mars mission. Maybe later. I still have to feed my Brontosaurus. Then I've got that soccer match at 3 and...."
Don't look now, but my grandnephew is questioning evolution again. Oh, he still believes it's God's work, he's just gotten hung-up on the notion being taught at his school, that all life began as the same single cell organism. His thinking is, if evolution by itself is true and we all started the same way, then we'd all have ended up the same way. So far, he's successfully shot down every nonspiritual explanation thrown at him. His science teacher says his level of inquiry has become quite a disruption.
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NJ I don't want to diss on your grandnephew - I know you are very proud of him. So I'm uncomfortable with this answer; feel it needs to be addresses though. His comment that I quoted shows an extreme lack of understanding on how life evolves. Has anyone explained to him how environmental and other factors cause changes in creatures great and small. His statement is simply false.
He knows what the text book says and why. He also knows that the 'A' he earns in this class is based on that material. However, he simply doesn't buy it.
His science teacher has explained evolutionary theory to the class in great detail. Which on one occasion prompted him to ask, if the environment caused fish to become amphibians, how come fish and frogs live in the same pond? He simply will not be convinced there was no divine influence.
Is it? I'm quite sure he could put up an argument that would have you chasing your own tail... had evolution not taken it away that is!
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