The following is a transcipt of a conversation with my five year old before bed tonight:

Me: Who is Jesus?

Daughter: the true spirit.

Me: (bewildered) are you sure?

Daughter: He’s really hard for me to describe.

Me: that’s true.  What else do you know about him?

Daughter: He is a man… He has a beard… He always obeys.

Me: Do you always obey?

Daughter: (tentatively) No

Me: Do I always obey?

Daughter: (enthusiastically) No

Me: Does Mommy obey?

Daughter: She disobeyed when she was little.

Me: Goodnight.

What I take from this interaction is that she might understand the basics about Jesus and sin as clearly as I do… maybe clearer.  But, can she explain “substitutionary atonement” or,”hypostatic union?”

Metanoia,
Aaron