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Curiously Kaitlyn

Where is the Garden of Eden? Plus Other Mailbag Questions!

Curiously Kaitlyn

Phil Vischer

Religion & Spirituality

5759 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Kaitlyn and Producer Mike takcle not one, but four kid questions in this week's episode! They explore what it means to be made in God’s image, why creation itself longs for redemption, how Christians have understood original sin, whether the serpent in Genesis was really Satan, and why Jesus calls even grown-ups “little children.”

0:00 - Theme Song

 

1:04 - Can Really Smart Animals Become Christians?

 

9:48 - Why Do We Not Get to Go to the Garden of Eden?

 

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19:17 - Where’s the Flaming Sword Guarding Eden?

 

22:04 - How Can Satan Turn Into a Snake?

 

37:20 - End Credits

Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't know.

0:05.0

That doesn't make any sense.

0:10.2

Curiously, Caitlin.

0:14.4

Welcome to Curiously Caitlin.

0:16.6

Today I have special guest, producer Mike, with me for a very special episode where we will

0:23.6

have not one kid question about God theology or the Bible to answer, but many questions

0:29.9

from kids about God theology or the Bible.

0:32.5

Sometimes we get questions and we're like, oh, that's a good question, but we're not

0:35.8

sure we can do a full episode on this. So here's a chance for us to go through a few and see. And I'm excited, Caitlin, because there's a couple tricky ones in here. I feel like I picked ones that I feel confident to answer, but you've been a little bit too excited about them. So now I'm kind of nervous. I know, it's my job to play the role of the child and to ask, I'm really good at it.

0:37.8

It doesn't take very much. about them, so now I'm kind of nervous. I know, it's my job to play the role of the child and to ask,

0:55.4

I'm really good at it. It doesn't take very much. And so, you know, I'm going to, I've got some

1:00.7

follow-up questions. Great. All right. Here is our first one. Can really smart animals become

1:06.4

Christians if you teach them about God? For example, apes and orcas, if we learn to talk to them.

1:13.1

Then could we have animals at church?

1:17.2

Can you repeat the question in case our listeners that I didn't quite get it?

1:21.7

So the question was, can we teach animals to be smart enough?

1:27.0

Or can we teach really smart animals enough

1:29.7

that they can become Christians? My favorite thing about this question though is that

1:33.6

it's a long question with an explanation in the middle of like, okay, there's some smarter

1:37.1

animals than the average animal. Maybe we could teach them. But I love that the point at the end

1:42.0

is not this abstract question of like, can animals become

1:45.0

Christians?

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