The seven-year-old asked, "When is God coming? It's been a long time."
I answered, "It has been a long time to us, but the Bible says that a thousand days to us is like one day to God.1 So it hasn't been a long time to God.
"And, besides, the Bible also says that God wants to give everyone time to come to believe in him. So he's being patient."2
"Yeah, but every day, more babies are born and we'll have to wait for them to grow up and believe in God ... do you think God's coming again?"
"Well, yes, I do. And when we pray the 'Our Father,' we ask God to come when we say 'thy kingdom come.'"
"I don't get that, his 'kingdom.' ... Jesus came already! Now it's God's turn to come!"
He sounded so excited that I let that concluding error go unchecked especially since it's Christ's divinity that's easy to grasp! His sinless humanity is difficult!
1 2 Peter 3:8
2 2 Peter 3:9
See this footnote.
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