Everlasting Life

This is our discussion in the van this morning:

Mary Frances: "Mommy, you know that if you love Jesus a bunch, you can live forever!?"
Me: "You're right. Jesus says that if we love him and obey him that we can live with him in Heaven forever - but not here in our world. We do all have to die someday."
Thomas: "Why?"
Me: "When God created Adam and Eve, he planned on people living forever. But when they disobeyed him, he told them that they would have to die one day. He couldn't spank them for disobeying like we do!"
Mary Frances:"Oh."
Thomas: "Well, good people love Jesus and bad people love the devil."
Me: "Not really Thomas. No one loves the devil."
Thomas: "Really?"
Me: "No. Bad people just don't understand how much God loves them."
Thomas: "Why not?"
Me: "Because a lot of bad people have been treated very mean by others, and they don't understand that God loves them even though other people haven't. They even might think that God made bad things happen to them! So, that's why God put us here - to tell everyone how much God loves them."
Thomas: "Well, God doesn't make bad things happen. The devil does."
Me: "Sometimes the devil does make bad things happen, but sometimes bad things just happen. Like car accidents - the people who don't pay attention where they are going are the ones who make the accident happen - not God or the devil."
Thomas: "Oh. Are we almost at Monkey Bizness?"
ME: "Almost." :)