So, my kids go to a children's ministry at church called Promiseland. It's where they learn about God and the Bible in a way that is relevant to their age group (i.e. not so boring you're forced to bring a pillow and a blanket). She also has a 'My First Bible' of some sort. The kind where they have lots of cartoon-ish pictures and tell the major Bible stories in a very abbreviated way.
Sophia, who's at that age where just about everything that comes out of her mouth is funny, comes up to me one day, saying, "Mommy, I learned that God and Jesus went into the bushes and died..." My response was to look at her with my mouth opened for a bit.
Me, thinking I've perhaps misheard her: "What, Honey? What was that you said?"
Sophia, with all the confidence of a three year old who knows everything: "Yup, God and Jesus, they went into the bushes. And died."
Me: "Wow, really? I don't remember that story from my Bible..."
Sophia went around for a while repeating her story about how God and Jesus kicked the can in the bushes. I went around scouring my brain, trying to remember WHERE she had heard or learned that. Now, I was pretty sure that she never learned that in Promiseland, because they are, if anything, Biblically correct. So is her baby Bible. WHERE did she learn that Jesus and God were walking around, turned into the bushes and died?
My theory is this, since Sophia isn't telling her sources: she looks at her baby Bible, and not being able to read yet, makes up stories to go with the pictures. I think she found the story of Moses and the burning bush maybe and mistook Moses for Jesus or God and figured that the person in the story burst into flames too... Yes, I know that it was MOSES, ONE person standing there, and not two, (i.e. Jesus AND God), but maybe she figured it was.... I don't know. God was in 'Jesus's' heart? And they both jumped into the burning bush? I'm not going to worry too much, because Promiseland is awesome, and maybe someday they'll teach about Moses and the burning bush and she'll learn that a) Moses didn't burn to a crisp because of the bush and b) God was IN the bush, talking to Moses, not being burned up in the bush. Also, she'll eventually learn to read.
Now, if only I could figure out where the spiders that come out of her window at night and tickle her in the butt and back come from... "And they say, tickle tickle tickle!"
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