Mark

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Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like a child, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven”.



When I look at this quote the first thing I realize is the part about becoming like a child. And when I think of children I think of purity, innocence and how simple minded they can be. I think what he is trying to say is that before you enter the gates of heaven you must be pure of sin like a child is at birth. When a child is born their souls are pure of sin. I think in order to enter a place like heaven you must first clean yourself of sin. The other aspect I see in becoming like a child is that children are simple minded. When a child is first introduced to God they do not question his existence yet just believe in him. As we age we find more and more reasons to loose faith in him. I think that before you enter heaven you must be simple minded in order to truly believe in the place you are going to. If you were to think heaven did not exist then you could never get there. Seeing isn’t always believing. Being simple-minded does not mean you are dumb yet it allows you to believe in something that you have never seen like God when you are born and Heaven when you die. This quote to me makes perfect sense for the simple fact that children are more susceptible to believe in things like Santa, Easter Bunny, and more seriously God and heaven. After childhood people want proof of thing in order to believe in them as for a child tell them something once that interest them and you got them believing....