The Cow

This is a funny essay by a ten year old.

"The cow is a mammal. It has six sides. Right, left, an upper and below. At the back it has a tail on which hangs a brush. With this it sends the flies away so that they do not fall into the milk. The head is for the purpose of growing horns and so that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are to butt with and the mouth is to moo with...

Under the cow hangs the milk. It is arranged for milking. When people milk the milk comes and there is never an end to the supply. How the cow does it, I have not yet realised. But it makes more and more. The man cow is called an ox. It is not a mammal. The cow does not eat much, but what it eats, it eats twice so that it gets enough. When it is hungry it moos, and when it says nothing it is because its inside is all filled up with grass."

This was used as an example of correct/incorrect observation and interpretation. When we look at the Bible we need to get both of them right. We need God's help to understand what his word is saying and how it particularly was (and is) meant to apply to the lives of the readers.