I’m always trying to exegete our current culture—both the good and the bad—to get an idea what effect it is having on the children and teenagers I and our small group leaders interact with on a weekly basis. Culture is always a moving target than I’m trying to understand.
So I wondered where our children are at with their questions about God and the Bible.
Instead of assuming I know what their questions are, I wanted to ask the students what questions they actually have about God and the Bible.
Here is a list of questions from 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students on March 3, 2014:
- How did Jesus rise on the third day?
- Why aren’t unicorns alive anymore?
- What if Jesus didn’t die?
- Why aren’t dinosaurs in the bible?
- Is Jesus in all the Bible stories?
- What if Jesus decided not to die?
- Why are there Bibles?
- Why is Jesus powerful?
- Why is Jesus important?
- Why is the devil evil?
- Who made God?
- How did Jesus come back to life?
- Why does Jesus hang out with bad people?
- Why did Steven get stoned?
- I don’t understand if Jesus & God are the same person.
- Why do all people have to die?
- Why don’t people live 9 lives like a cat?
- Who created God?
- How did Jesus survive when he died?
- How old is Jesus today?
- How is Jesus so cool & we are not?
- Who’s idea was it to make the Bible?
- Who was the first prophet?
- Who was the first person to die in the Bible?
- Why are you invisible?
- Why does my sister fight with me?
- How did God make the Holy Bible?
- Why were there no dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark?
- If Jesus didn’t die would people still sin?
- Is Jesus in all the stories in the Bible?
- I wonder what you look like as a person.
- Why did they invent women?
- Why were people surprised when you weren’t in the grave?
- Why are people mean?
- Why was the world invented?
- Where did women come from?
- Did Jesus rise from the dead?
- Why did Jesus make the Bible?
- What was it like back then?
- Why don’t my parents let me do what I want?
- What did your clothes look like?
- What was God’s first friend?
- Who made you?
- What is God?
- Are they going to make another Bible?
- How high up is the sky?
- Why does my mom have to be so mean?
- Who are your parents?
- Why did you have a tree with bad fruit?
- How are you doing?
- If you can tell the future why did you not stop Eve from eating the apple?
- Who were the people that killed you?
- Why did you create mosquitos?
- Why do good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people?
- I pray to God sometimes but he doesn’t answer.
- Is God a secret?
- Why is there 12 special people?
- Why does God frown upon gay people?
- Did God make all the galaxies?
- How did Jesus come back from the dead?
- Why did God not save Him when he was dying on the cross?
- How did You make all animals in 7 days?
- How did God make us?
- How does God make rain, snow & hot?
- How was God made?
- Do you have a last name?
- Why are there different kinds of Bibles?
- How many sisters & brothers do you have?
- Why are dinosaurs extinct?
- Why did God keep the people from recognizing Jesus?
- What color was His eyes?
- What was his friends?
- Is this really happening?
- How old was Jesus when He died?
- Does Heaven look like a huge Kingdom?
- Do you have a mom and dad?
- Why is the devil bad?
- Why is Jesus powerful?
- Why does He like bad people?
- Why did He make bad things?
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