"Why do people choose the substitute over God himself? Probably the most important reason is that it obviates accountability to God. We can meet idols on our own terms because they are our own creations. They are safe, predictable, and controllable; they are, in Jeremiah's colorful language, the 'scarecrows in a cornfield' (10:5). They are portable and completely under the user's control. They offer nothing like the threat of a God who thunders from Sinai and whose providence in this world so often appears to us to be incomprehensible and dangerous . . . [People] need face only themselves. That is the appeal of idolatry."
- David F. Wells
Friday, September 26, 2008
Grace (5): How old is God?
Dada: He doesn't have an age. He existed before the world was made and anyone was ever born.
Grace: So he's 100 years old?
Dada: No, he's infinite. He's been around since forever, but he doesn't age like we do.
Macy (7): He's God.
Grace: I know that!
Dada: He's not a person.
Grace: Yes he is. He is a person.
Dada: Well, he's a Person, but not like us. He's not a human being.
(long pause)
Grace: I'm not a bean.
Macy: BEE-ing! Not bean.
Grace: I'm not a bee either.
Macy: That's not what I said!
Grace: I'm glad I'm not a bean or a bee 'cause I'd get eaten up or I'd get stung and then I'd die.
Macy: A BEING!
Grace: What's a bing?
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Comments on "What's a Bing?":
2. Bill
- 09/26/2008 6:22 pm CDT
No kidding, Jared. Funny stuff.
I love your girls - they're so cute and you can tell they are going to be real wits.
Heh - "What's a bing?"
7. Milly
- 09/27/2008 4:24 pm CDT
What until those girls are teens and look'n at the boys. You are so in trouble. ;-} They can out talk you.
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That's twice as funny as any 'comedy' writing for television these days.