my daughter has just started a small catholic school and alyhough we do not follow a religion within our family I am happy for her to learn new approaches to life.
She asked today how god created us and i started to explain that he created Adam & Eve first & then I realized I don't know how to explain it to her.
What do you think I should say?
2007-07-09 03:23:21 · 27 answers · asked by K W 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
HERE'S A SERIOUS ANSWER - Tell your daughter that God created "all things seen and unseen". This includes the universe, and everything in it.
As a matter of fact, the creation process is still going on, what with new people and other lifeforms still being created; and with the discovery of new lifeforms everyday.
If your daughter wants to know "how" God did all this, be honest and tell her we really don't know. We think the universe was created in something called the "Big Bang", we think the celestial objects in space were created by the coalesce of material over a period of billions of years.
The point is, there are people who think you have to choose between Intelligent Design (the Bible) or Evolution (science). Such a view is rather extreme and, as extremes go, they seldom resemble the Truth. More likely, the Truth is more moderate.
God did create everything and everyone. God's creative processes may very well have appeared (and worked) exactly the way certain scientific theories explain; such as the Big Bang and Evolution.
It's a mistake to assume it is beyond God's capability to employ the Big Bang and Evolution is His creative process. Skeptics will tell you that "forces of nature" determined the Bing Bang and Evolution.
Well, yeah - but even nature has a Divine Architect. Natural Law isn't what it is in spite of God. Natural Law is what it is because of God. As you can see, it is not only reasonable, it is probably that intelligent Design AND Evolution are co-existing with each other; working together, not against each other.
2007-07-10 01:35:14 · answer #1 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth is if you have sent her to a Catholic school they are going to teach your child God created the heaven and the earth and the first humans were Adam and Eve.
It actually sounds like it is you who has trouble believing this. And she will probably pick up on your confusion. However it may further confuse your child if your message is radically different from the one she gets at school.
To clarify the Catholic position, they do not insist on a literal seven day creation and allow for the teaching of the Big Bang etc as long as God is seen as the creator. They also are not opposed to the idea of evolution as long as it happen under God's guidance. What all Catholic do insist on though is the special creation by God of the human soul in the first humans.
If I were you I would buy a science book aimed at your daughter's age about the how the earth was formed etc. You will be much more comfortable with this, and it should ease your child's curiosity.
2007-07-09 04:31:38 · answer #2 · answered by Lucy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible was dictated by God, to man. Jesus's stories were allegories, and not meant to be taken literally. Was he giving a fishing seminar when he said "Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetieme?" The same God who said those things, also explained the creation of the world to man, a man who could not understand matters like physics, astronomy, geology, evolution. Not only could man not understand those concepts at the time, but they were irrelevent. God created and planned the events that created the Earth as we know it. Now, to explain that to your child, I suppose tell him the Bible is similar to fairy tales, in that it's message is true and real, and the morals are meant to be followed and learned from, but that a talking snake and an evil apple tree are no more real than Snow White or Jack and the Beanstalk.
2016-05-17 18:40:06 · answer #3 · answered by jaye 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 Year olds are very trusting and will take anything you say as the 'gospel' truth (there's a contradiction in terms if ever there was one). If you're happy with her thinking that a god created mankind then tell her the bible story. If you want her to believe that Santa brings her presents at christmas tell her that. If however you want her to have an open mind then get a simple science book and show her the wonders of the universe and how stars and planets are created. Take her outside at night and show her the stars and tell her what they are and how far away they are. That way you might kindle a spark of inquisitiveness that could lead to great things.
However if you want her to be another brainwashed 'sheep' then tell her about Adam and Eve.
2007-07-09 03:42:01 · answer #4 · answered by boojum 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Inspite of what people think is **cool** to say these days, Catholic schools do NOT actually teach creationism. The science lesson is independent of the RE lesson.
This is a myth brought about by people obsessed these small American cults in America and love to pretend it is also happening here.
2007-07-09 04:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by Abdul 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I first became a Christian I did not know anything. God brought me a set of children's bible stories. This is where I learned how to understand the old testament, because it did not make sense to me. She will love to read the stories of the Bible from a children's book and you will learn too.
2007-07-09 04:28:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Om the seed sound of creation vibrated into the densities of form. Genesis gives more of the story. Then the word was made flesh. We were sung into being and we are continually being sung.
2007-07-09 10:18:23 · answer #7 · answered by Holistic Mystic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look up the Big Bang. Yes, Something had to create what the Big Bang came from....but Adam and Eve is a little far-fetched. Even for a child.
2007-07-09 03:28:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
You're happy for her to learn a pack of lies?
Do you want to indoctrinate her with the idea that 2+2=3 ?
If you can't tell her the truth, don't tell her anything.
2007-07-10 00:37:41 · answer #9 · answered by David M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Using the forces of Nature and the Cosmos.
Also from personnel experience the world and universe are like clay in the hands of God.
God from my experience can manipulate nature to finesse associated with his name and nothing is beyond his (I know, i did believe in mother nature, but experience has shown me it is 'he' (again opinion formed from experiences)) powers, even ' time'.
2007-07-09 04:23:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋