The seven-year-old and I were watching a National Geo. program on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Kenny asked me why the Dead Sea Scrolls were such an important discovery.

I answered him the only things I know about the DSS: that the discovery gave us copies of the Jewish scriptures 1,000 years older than we had before, essentially erasing ten centuries of copists' mistakes and, yet, in some cases, the older manuscripts confirmed that our modern copies are accurate.

Kenny said that he'd never make any mistakes in copying a book and he wondered why it took God a thousand years to correct all the mistakes in His!