explaining god to a 3 year old
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Following the source of the image in that article, led me quickly to the Biblical Archeology Review journal, who have recently published a new article regarding the relic described on that geocities hosted website. The person who found it, is currently being prosecuted by the Israel authorities for possibly faking it.
Whether the relic is real or not proves very little to me as I am entirely unsure about whether Jesus existed as a man (and believe it has very little to do with whether the proverbial "God" exists) however, I thought it best to post the link so as to keep the information trail accurate.
http://www.bib-arch.org/debates/antiquities-trial-01.asp
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You may like him to have a belief but can't make him have one. Explaining the Hebrew god should be fairly straightforward - just make sure you keep it simple I.e on a three year olde level.
At least you don't have to explain one of the many forms of Paganism. Most adults struggle understanding that.
Good find. I would be surprised if he didn't exist and the more we advance are technology the more we find that the bible is a good historical source for information. Like the great flood, destruction of Sodom and gomera. As some one else said I see it as a exaggeration based on real events.
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its probably best to explain it to him in a non matter of fact way.. like "some people like mummy and daddy think that someone made the world and we call him god"
telling him there is a god is either going to lead to a belief or non-belief.. rather than letting him figure it out in his own time.
telling him there is a god is either going to lead to a belief or non-belief.. rather than letting him figure it out in his own time.
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I dunno, i find paganism fairly easy to understand and i'm technically not an adult.
Of course i do have a few pagan freinds to explain it.
Also, what is so important about someone believing in god?
It doesn't add any moral fibre to their being, just a bit of blindness to their beliefs.
Divorce her.
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all you have to tell him is "believe in GOD and you will get presents at Christmas"
I was mulling over the question asked by the OP while I was watching some particularly tedious adverts on TV.
I have no memory of anyone ever telling me specifically about god but I do remember at the age of 4 or 5 getting introduced gradually to the idea.
My parents, particularly my mother, were very keen that I went to Sunday School. I hated it and often just went for a bit of a walk instead. I think my parents just wanted a few hours peace on a Sunday morning. Incidentally things were different then and it was no big deal for me and my brother to walk a couple of streets to get to the house where the Sunday school was held. Sunday school consisted of a singing a few hymns, doing a few few prayers and a bit of structured activity like stories and colouring in
When I started school we had a class and school assemblies. It was law then (don't know about now) that schools had to have collective acts of (Christian) worship I believe.
Radio used to broadcast religious services, and on sundays TV had a god spot. Although I didn't listen to them, over the years I was exposed to them in passing.
My point is that exposed to the words to hymns and prayers, and unlucky enough to catch a few words of sermons, attending the odd wedding and christening --- then over a period of time I subconsciously, some might say insidiously, built up a notion of god at at that very early age.
Three years old is too young though. Needs to played down and kept VERY simple at that age.
NB: I became a life long atheist at the age of seven
I just could not seriously take on board all the "fairy stories" the adults were trying to make me believe. Stubborn little monster that I was in those days.
I have no memory of anyone ever telling me specifically about god but I do remember at the age of 4 or 5 getting introduced gradually to the idea.
My parents, particularly my mother, were very keen that I went to Sunday School. I hated it and often just went for a bit of a walk instead. I think my parents just wanted a few hours peace on a Sunday morning. Incidentally things were different then and it was no big deal for me and my brother to walk a couple of streets to get to the house where the Sunday school was held. Sunday school consisted of a singing a few hymns, doing a few few prayers and a bit of structured activity like stories and colouring in
When I started school we had a class and school assemblies. It was law then (don't know about now) that schools had to have collective acts of (Christian) worship I believe.
Radio used to broadcast religious services, and on sundays TV had a god spot. Although I didn't listen to them, over the years I was exposed to them in passing.
My point is that exposed to the words to hymns and prayers, and unlucky enough to catch a few words of sermons, attending the odd wedding and christening --- then over a period of time I subconsciously, some might say insidiously, built up a notion of god at at that very early age.
Three years old is too young though. Needs to played down and kept VERY simple at that age.
NB: I became a life long atheist at the age of seven
I just could not seriously take on board all the "fairy stories" the adults were trying to make me believe. Stubborn little monster that I was in those days.
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Given that both are introduced to us by works of fiction Goldilocks is no more of a lie than anything else.
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Well at least my parents alway used to scare me with the police.
That's horrible of them, what songs did they use? "Roxanne" or "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"? They use any of Sting's solo work on you aswell?
I'm in the "not brain washing your child" section of the camp, if anyone's counting btw.
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Shameless, little Liam " There is as much proof of Spiderman as there is of GOD "
I haven't read this thread, as I can guess exactly how it has gone down. 95% of people shouting there is no God, a few people saying you can't prove that, your closed minded. Science getting involved, then the rebuttal of science can only predict what could happen etc etc, someone saying they're not religious but you can't prove it, so i'm all high and mighty because i'm sitting on the wall.
This has been done a million times before and will be done a million more time.
Sad.
In response to the OP, if you want him to believe, read him the bible and tell him its true. Whether you agree to this actually being conditioning, i suppose that depends on whether you believe it. Otherwise explain to him that some people believe this is the case, and no one will really know till they plop their cogs, and let him decide.
This has been done a million times before and will be done a million more time.
Sad.
In response to the OP, if you want him to believe, read him the bible and tell him its true. Whether you agree to this actually being conditioning, i suppose that depends on whether you believe it. Otherwise explain to him that some people believe this is the case, and no one will really know till they plop their cogs, and let him decide.
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Erm... there's a good reason for that
Teach him that there are a group of people called christians, and that this is what they believe. Not in any great detail, obviously, but the basics. They think god created everything, Jesus was his son etc.
just wait till you've got to explain the difference between the holy ghost and just a ghost,