When I was seven years old I was OBSESSED with dinosaurs. I wanted to be a palientologist when I grew up. One night my mom and I were reading the Bible (we would read a little every night) and I realized that the creation story didn't mention dinosaurs. My dinosaur books said the world was billions of years old and dinosaurs came millions of years before people and this was just not making sense in my seven year old head. So I asked my mom "what about dinosaurs?" and my mom told me that maybe Satan put the dinosaur bones in the ground to test out faith. I kinda lost interest in dinoasaurs after that, ya know, since they were tools of the devil and all.
That's funny - I asked my mom (a former nun) the same thing about dinosaurs, and she told me that not everything in the Bible was LITERALLY true - that it was a book of parables to teach ethics, that the Garden of Eden was just one of many Creation stories, and that Science was how we understand the Earth, but the Bible is how we understand Faith and God. It's funny, but that's what they actually taught her in the convent.
Really, that's a pretty elaborate ruse, even for Satan, don't you think? I'll bet that, given an eternity, I could think of dozens of better ways to test faith than sprinkling dinosaur bones all over South Dakota and waiting for a few people dig them up.
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Really, that's a pretty elaborate ruse, even for Satan, don't you think? I'll bet that, given an eternity, I could think of dozens of better ways to test faith than sprinkling dinosaur bones all over South Dakota and waiting for a few people dig them up.
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I was raised to never underestimate the power of Satan for he will stop at nothing to get your soul.
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Best. Day. Evah.
I'm just sayin'...
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Wow. I really DO have icons for everything. :)
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