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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.
You should
always go to Church on Sunday because it
makes God happy, and if there's anybody
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."
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