Tough Questions From A Six-Year-Old
(Image courtesy of www.stock.adobe.com.) "Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming" (2 Peter 3:11-12). My six-year-old son asked some difficult questions the other night. We were sitting in the living room after supper reading the Bible together. After our reading, our discussion turned one way and then another. Eventually we were discussing good and evil. Reading the Bible and simply existing in this world reveal this battle plainly, even to kids. There is good and there is evil, and it's seen almost everywhere. My son, however, was puzzled by something: why did God destroy the evil people in the Old Testament Bible stories? Are we supposed to kill the evil people today? If David could kill his enemies with the sword, can we today? He was confused.