My Four-Year-Old, the Skeptic

F: Why would God make us so we have to die?

Me: [Brief synopsis of the story of Adam and Eve.]

F: But why would them doing that make everybody have to die. That’s not fair.

Me: Good question. I guess when they made their big mistake it changed them so that the babies they had were changed, too.

F: Oh.

Me: And all the babies that were ever born came from them, so.

F: Oh.

Me: But it’s okay, because God loves us even though we make mistakes, so he sent us Jesus to make a way that we could live forever after we die. So we don’t really die.

F: Well, how does that work?

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