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[quote=Anonymous]My child had books of Bible stories, and Veggietales movies that people gave him.  I'd read the books to him, as well as books I purchased that portrayed stories from other religions, and told him "These are stories that some people believe are true, and some people believe are just stories.  You can think for yourself and decide what you believe"  of course he asked what I believed and I told him "I believe that they are stories, wonderful stories, stories we can learn from because they have important messages but not something that actually happened.  Your Nana believes something different, she believes that these stories come from God, but they aren't literally true (I'm thinking Old Testament stories here such as creation, my mom is a Christian but not a Creationist), they are stories God told men so that we could learn.  Your Grandma (DH's husband who is an Evangelical Christian and a Creationist) believes that these stories are true, that these things happened exactly the way they are written here."

My kid wasn't confused, he developed his own theology which was a little interesting, and it's changed as he's grown, but he was never particularly confused, or rather, he was no more confused than he was by other adult things like taxes and elections and why the Dr. gave him shots that he didn't want.  All things I tried to explain to him but where his understanding is still pretty incomplete.[/quote]

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