The boys, like most young children, starve for new information. So, where do they go for bedtime stories? The encyclopedia, naturally. Well, the other night they wanted to read about dinosaurs, T-Rex in particular. After reading together, the four of us (Blythe was already in bed) snuggled in Burke’s bottom bunk, Mark asked the boys, “So, why do you think the dinosaurs are extinct? Why did they all die?” To which Burke resolutely replied, “Jesus killed them all.” For Burke’s sake, Mark and I kept our internal raucous laughter to an external chuckle, but it was hard. In spite of our deperate attempts to have him expound, Burke wouldn’t say anything more about it.
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The humor wasn’t necessarily in what he was saying, rather the random, but confident manner in which he stated it, as if somehow Mark and I had both missed some major fact in natural history, and Burke was simply reminding us.
i meant, no reason to think Jesus could NOT lay waste to slimy dinosaurs. sometimes my typing needs redemption.
i don’t see what is so funny. in that carman song, Jesus beat satan at boxing. there is NO reason to think Jesus could lay waste to some slimy lizards. it’s good theology on burke’s part. on par with CCM.