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What is God?
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. For a written class assignment, a third grade teacher asked her
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students to explain "God". This is one perspicacious response from
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Danny Dutton, who attends the First Christian Church of Chula Vista.
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Danny is eight years old.
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. "One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes these to put
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in place of the ones that die so there will be enough people to take
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care of things here on earth. He doesn't make grownups. Just babies.
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I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way He
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doesn't have to take up His valuable time teaching them to talk and
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walk. He can just leave that up to the mothers and fathers. I think
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it works out pretty good.
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. God's second most important job is listening to prayers. An
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awful lot of this goes on, as some people, like preachers and things,
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pray other times besides bedtime. God doesn't have time to listen to
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the radio or T.V. on account of this. As He hears everything, not
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only prayers, there must be a terrible lot of noise going into His
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ears unless He has thought of a way to turn it off.
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. God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere.
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Which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting His time by
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going over your parents head and ask for something they said you
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couldn't have.
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. Atheists are people who don't believe in God. I don't think
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there are any in Chula Vista. At least there aren't any who come to
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our church.
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. Jesus is God's Son. He used to do all the hard work like walking
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on water and doing miracles and trying to teach people about God who
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didn't want to learn. They finally got tired of Him preaching to them
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and they crucified Him. But He was good and kind like His Father and
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He told His Father that they didn't know what they were doing and to
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forgive them and God said ok. His Dad (God) appreciated everything He
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had done and all His hard work on earth, so He told Him He didn't have
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to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So He did.
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And now He helps His Dad out by listening to prayers and seeing which
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things are important for God to take care of and which ones He can
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take care of Himself without having to bother God with. Like a
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secretary, only more important, of course. You can pray anytime you
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want and they are sure to hear you because they've got it worked out
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so one of them is on duty all the time.
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. You should always go to Sunday School because it makes God happy,
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and if anybody you want to make happy, it's God. Don't skip Sunday
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School to do something you think will be more fun like going to the
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beach. That is wrong. And beside the sun doesn't come out at the
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beach until noon anyway.
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. If you don't believe in God, besides being an Atheist, you will
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be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you like
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to camp, but God can. It's good to know He's around when you're
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scared of the dark or when you can't swim very good and you get thrown
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in real deep water by big kids. But you shouldn't think always of
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what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and He can take me
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back anytime He pleases. And that's why I believe in God."
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. Taken from a paper published by the First Christian Church. 305
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W. California Ave. Vista, CA 92083-3595
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