Sam really likes these educational books that I bought from one of those door-to-door salesmen that you are supposed to make leave. He loves to read through all of the science and history information. Last night, he was heading to bed early, so I told him we could read the entire thing. (LONG! BORING!) He chose the history one (Who lived in castles?). Towards the end, I read something about a native American tribe worshipping the sun god in a festival of some kind (you can see how much attention I pay to the details…).
"They're making fun of God," Sam said very matter-of-factly.
"What?"
"Well, they are making fun of God because of the sun god and our God says not to do that because there should be no other gods but our God," he said.
Whoa. That just blew my mind. That's not a scripture I've beaten into him, nor have we ever had a conversation about that. He just came up with it on his own. We've read the story about the children of God wandering in the desert, the calf, and those kind of things, but I had no idea he could piece it all together like that.
At the same time, I was thinking that I don't want him judging people that lived hundreds of years ago based upon our beliefs, right? So I said, "That's true. God wants us to only worship Him. These people didn't know about God though."
"Well, we do," he said. And that was that.
It is simultaneously thrilling and frightening that he is absorbing so much information and processing it like that. But it is good to know that reading all of those non-fiction books might be sinking in something for future use.
1 comment:
Joshua is totally into
"having no other gods before you." We've talked about the Israelites and the 10 Commandments before, and that is just one thing he's focused on. He thinks that all statues are idols and should be broken or "killed" as he puts it. :o)
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