Kids and God/Allah

My son of 8 years ask me out of the blue one day: " Dad, is Santa real?"

I once promised myself not to ever lie to my kids as my parents had lied to me, so my answer came easy.
I told him, "No. Saint Nicolas is real but the story of Santa climbing down chimneys delivering presents is not real." I explained to him that people make up these stories like fairy tales and they are nice to listen to and create joy and happiness.
I asked him to keep this truth to himself. Unfortunately he did not keep this promise and we had another lesson in trust and promises a few weeks later.
No harm was done as most of the kids did not believe him, except the older kids who do not believe in Santa anyway he said.

The same happened to the Tooth fairy question. The question about sex ended up with the explanation that it is an act of love between husband and wife and that he must not ask me for anymore details until he is a teenager. I told him straight that I can not tell him everything about life as too much knowledge will rob him from his childhood and that will not be good.

He was happy and satisfied with my answers.

But how do you explain the concept of God with out lying?

I explain to him that God is the biggest and the most powerful. He agreed. I explained that in order for God to be the biggest and most powerful God must be everything, because without everything God will not be everything.
He understood that too.

I explain to him that in that case himself, the cat, the chair and everything else is part of God. He nodded.

I explained to him that God can not be a he or a father but has to be all gender and thus can not be called a he. God is God.

He understood that too but now he raised the question about why the school that he is in, an institution that is responsible for his educating and preparation of life, differs with me.
I explained to him that different people have different views on things and that he must listen to everything and then when he is ready make his own choice.
He was happy with that too as he did not have to make a choice between me and his teacher.

While searching the web for viewpoints as I always do I came across this http://www.holyspiritinteractive.net/kids/bible stories/68.asp web site.

I wonder if people really believe all the lies that they write, probably.

Let's analyze the passage on this web site and please email me your views and debate (which I will, with your permission, add to this web page ), otherwise agree or sue me.

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Lots of people say they believe in God, but they don’t really know who he is.

 

Suppose one day a little girl named Abbey walked past the place where you live.

“Someone must live there,” she thinks to herself.

And she would be right - YOU live there! But then suppose she thought you had long, pointy ears, and yellow teeth, and furry feet; and that you hated dogs; and all you did was sit around all day eating ice cream and playing video games.

That wouldn't’t be you at all!

....except maybe for the video games part.

That is sort of God’s problem. [Seeing that God is Almighty, God can not have problems unless he (sic) created them himself (sic)]

People see the moon and the stars and they think, “Someone must live there!” And they would be right. God does.

But then they get all kinds of different ideas about who God is.

And most of those ideas arn't really who God is at all. [How do you know? Assumption]

Abbey and her friends might sit around at lunch and talk about the person who lives in the place where you live, and in one way they all are right. Someone DOES live there. But if Abbey thinks you have furry feet, and one of her friends thinks you are just a kid who likes to play basketball, they aren’t really talking about the same person at all.

That’s how it is for God. [How do you know, did God tell you?]

People say they believe in God. But what if one person thinks that God is the all-loving, all-powerful person who created everything there is. Then another person thinks that God is an old man with a white beard sitting up in a cloud somewhere. And then another person thinks that God is the statue of a cat he has sitting on his dresser. They aren’t really talking about the same person at all. [no but they are talking about the same concept, the same concept in different forms and all these different forms are part of the same universal form called God]

God had to find a way [you mean there was a time that God did not have a way?] to let us know who he [he? where is the she of God?]really is.

That’s why God chose Abraham. [Could God not do this himself (sic) ?]

God TOLD Abraham who he was. [ this reminds me of a game, where you would whisper a sentence in someone's ear and they would pass it on to someone else and so on. The last sentence were never the same as the last. Why would God do this? God would not be so stupid.]

Abraham and his family became God’s “Chosen People.” [I did not realize that some people are special and others not in the eyes of God]

It’s not that they were better than anyone else. No, God chose them not because they were so great, but because God is so great. [..?..and this explains why God saw them as special and not others? Why are you treating us like kids? Oh, yes sorry we are kids.]

God chose Abraham and his family to show us who he really is. [Could God not just tell us who he is himself(sic)?]

When God blessed them with good things, we see that God is good.[and if God does nothing, what does that make God then?]

When God punished them, we learn what God thinks [ Are you telling me that God is not too sure about what is right or wrong and that he (sic)has to think about it?] is right and what he thinks is wrong.

When we hear the stories of the things God has done, that’s how we know that God is real. That’s how we know who God is. [We also hear of stories of a lost civilization called Atlantis and visits from aliens, Gods called Krishna, Allah, Ostara and Mahatma but we do not believe that is real, or do we?]

But even more important than that, through all the stories of Abraham and his family we come to know Jesus. [Does this mean that Jesus is more important than God?]

We come to know that Jesus really IS God's son [only because the bible tell us so,], and that he came to earth to make a way for us to live with God forever [God could not do this himself [sic]?]. And that's what everything in heaven and earth is all about. [Tell us about Hell. My sister says that the church told her that people burn in there forever and ever]

It's all about just how much God loves us!

[No, it is all about how much we can lie and brainwash our children. And what do we achieve by this? Rebellion]

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Some answers to questions and lies can be found in other religions.

 

About Allah - http://www.batkhela.com/islam/who-is-allah.shtml

"It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not the case with Allah.
Allah is the personal name of the One true God. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no plural or gender.
This shows its uniqueness when compared with the word God which can be made plural, Gods, or feminine, Goddess. It is interesting to notice that Allah is the personal name of God in Aramaic, the language of Jesus and a sister language of Arabic."

So now there is proof that God or Allah is not male or female, this makes more sense now. Let's become a Muslim.

Luckily we read some more.

He is Allaah

The First: Nothing is before Him.
The Last: Nothing is After Him.
The Most High: Nothing is Above Him.
The Most Near: Nothing is beyond His Reach.
He Begets Not, Nor was He Begotten.
The Creator, Provider, and All-Rich.
The All-Seer, The All-Knower.
He is One and Self-Sufficient.
He is not Nature, or any part of it. [what? Still not the biggest then.]
He ascended above His Throne, High above the Seven Skies. [what?]
No Vision can encompass Him, but
His Grasp is over all vision...
http://www.turntoislam.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2432

-- And religion makes sense to some people.....
~h