Monday, May 10, 2010

A Fable: A Nine-Year-Old's Questions

Why was there a long wait of thousands of years between Adam and Jesus before people could be saved? Why did all those people in between have to go to hell?
Why was sin automatically conferred from Adam and Eve to every other person in history, even though only Adam and Eve were involved in the original transgression?
Why does every church on the corner seem to preach that only its parishioners are saved, and members of every other church are damned?
Why is Christianity so fragmented if there is only one Jesus?
What about people in other areas and other times who never heard of Jesus?
What about people in other religions? What are all those other religions about?
Why would someone have to burn in hell for eternity for failing to get saved on Earth?
If you knew of a certainty that choosing Jesus was the only way to avoid going to Hell, why would you choose otherwise? So what would make that a free choice? How could God be that dumb?
Why would Jesus go to hell for three days?
How could Jesus be physically resurrected and then go to some physical heaven? Is heaven a physical place? If so, where is it? Up in the sky?
If Jesus is good, why would he come back like a thief?

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