A boy was sitting on a park bench with one hand
resting on an open Bible. He was loudly exclaiming his praise to
God.
"Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God is great!" he yelled
without worrying whether anyone heard him or not.
Shortly after, along came a man who had recently
completed some studies at a local university. Feeling
himself very enlightened in the ways of truth and very eager to show this enlightenment, he asked the boy about the source of his joy.
"Hey" asked the boy in return with a bright laugh,
"Don't you have any idea what God is able to do? I
just read that God opened up the waves of the Red Sea and
led the whole nation of Israel right through the
middle."
The enlightened man laughed lightly, sat down next to
the boy and began to try to open his eyes to the
'realities' of the miracles of the Bible. "That can
all be very easily explained. Modern scholarship has shown
that the Red Sea in that area was only 10-inches deep
at that time. It was no problem for the Israelites to
wade across."
The boy was stumped. His eyes wandered from the man
back to the Bible laying open in his lap. The man,
content that he had enlightened a poor, naive young
person to the finer points of scientific insight, turned to
go. Scarcely had he taken two steps when the boy began to rejoice and praise louder than before. The man turned to ask the reason for this resumed jubilation.
"Wow!" exclaimed the boy happily, "God is greater than
I thought! Not only did He lead the whole nation of
Israel through the Red Sea, He topped it off by
drowning the whole Egyptian army in 10 inches of water!"
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