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Totally Simple Faith - Part 1 : With Edwin

My little cousin was recently telling me a story of how a certain boy found God. It was a simple story, a boy of 12 years old who had not been given any prior information of the existence of God or any information of religion, or the thought of a deity was found kneeling down and murmuring by his father. To his father's question on who was he talking to, the boy replied " I realized that there must be someone who can make somethings that men cannot do. So, I was speaking to this person" . For today's post i have my little cousin doing the graphics.


I am starting a new series called Totally Simple Faith. Unlike many post this i hope would be different. I am planning to conduct some simple interviews and also tell stories of people i met in life (....24 years...)that tell about this faith. 

Jesus said "Don't push these children away. Don't ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in.(The Message). To get it first hand experience I interviewed a child of 12 year old. Here is some of the question i made him sweat. But it was wonderful to understand that his belief was blind, based on things he heard and read and believed in. Now the thing to realize here is not that the answer is theologically correct or can be used to battle mind. But this is my first attempt and i already feel sorry that i made the kid sweat a bit. 


Interview number: 1
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Name: Edwin
Age: 12
Age first introduced to Christian Belief: ~2 yrs

Questions and Answers

Q. How many human are there in the world?
A. Infinity : Many people are born every day

Q. Who is God?
A. God is one made earth, he made us, he is every where, he looks down to see what is happening.

Q. How does God look like?
A. I don't know; no one knows

Q. Is God loving?
A. Cain killed Abel, yet God protected Cain, so God loves

Q. Does care for you?
A. He protects us. He protects my father, i know this because God pushed the cars during an accident in Dubai from hitting my father.

Q. How do you talk to God?
A. Through Prayer

Q. What picture comes to your mind when i say Faith?
A. God is near me.




Q. Do you love God?
A. God gave me so many things and protected from danger, he gave my father a good job.

Q. How will you thank God?
A. Praise God in the morning, like pray

Q. What is a monkey?
A. A monkey gives medicine... hehe... ( by now the kid is gone mad)


Well that was my cousin Edwin, a little boy, who is in fact reading me type this passage and finding my spelling mistake. Edwin wants to be a priest when he grows up because he wants to find many things about God. He finds this necessary because he wants to do a lot for God, obey his commands and finally meet God one day. He does not want any wish from God, but really would God for the world to be happy, without pain or suffering.

He likes to eat Puri with Sambar. He likes all cartoons, but the favs are Tom and Jerry - The Movie cause Tom and Jerry can talk. Favorite song is " Romans 16: 19 " by Chris Tomlin and Favorite movie is Transformers. He wants his start an ecumenical prayer that even lets non believers join in worship, he would like to preach and tell about God. He wants to channel (media) and promote care for sick and needy like leapers. He want to own a channel, I asked him why did he want to be the owner, he said that he did not intend to be the real owner. So I asked him who was the real owner, and his answer was surprising , he said "GOD" .

We are so caught away without realizing the fact that God told us, like one of my friends said : Believe in the God of small things, See his hand work in the little things of time. God Bless you all. 

Subz
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