How does one explain the concept of God to a six year old?

Any Jehovah witness would be happy to help you with this. We have no difficulty explaining God to our children. We have special books for them to enjoy and learn from which we would be glad to share with you at no cost. We have children as young as 6 who go from door to door with us and

actually have bible studies with their schoolmates, explaining God and his purposes for mankind to them.

God gives us instructions in the bible on how to raise a child successfully and one of His commands is to have our children with us at all meetings from birth. Best wishes.

Here are some quotes from a publication, 'Learn from the Great teacher'.

This book is designed to teach even very small children about God and Jesus.

Look at your hand. Bend your fingers. Now pick something up. Your hand can do many things, and it can do them well. Do you know who made the hand?— It was God.

But if you cannot see God, how do you know that there really is a God?— Think about this. Can you see the wind?— No. Nobody can see the wind. But you can see the things the wind does. You can see the leaves move when the wind blows through the branches of a tree. So you believe that there is wind.

You can see the things God has done too. When you see a living flower or a bird, you see something God has made. So you believe that there really is a God.

This book is wonderful. It also promotes communication between parents and children.

You can obtain one from www.jw.org.

The basics of the Gospel are easy enough for a child to understand. The concept of a spiritual realm is not as easy. It should simply be explained using analogies, like, "You know dad is at work, even though you cannot see or hear him, right?"

"We can't go there now because it's God's will that we give glory to him while we are all in these bodies, that he desires to have more saved people to reside with him in heaven, and also to give people more time to repent."

It is not rocket science.

"Where is Heaven?

Why can't we go there now?"

I think I had heard of heaven and hell by the time I was six, but I don't recall enquiring after their location. The only thing I can remember worrying about is that there didn't seem to be any possibility of buying a return ticket to heaven - it was strictly one way only.

It all depends on the maturity level of your 6 year old. My brother who is now 7 but only recently turned, understood those two questions from a young age. He knows that you go to Heaven after you die, and he thinks that Heaven is up ",very very high in the sky, even above Space." He understands the concept of dying, and it doesn't bother him at all. If your 6 year old is having a difficult time with death, just still say that it happens, but only when God wants to bring that person to that very very special place. this will make it seem less scary and maybe interesting to her. Hope I helped!

P.S. Don't listen to all these non-believers. We need to spread the word of God!

When God made Adam and Eve, He told them to have the animals under their subjection and he also told them to fill the eartth. (Genesis) God never told them about death or going to heaven. Adam and Eve were supposed to live in paradise earth forever. -Psalm 37:29.

So humans were not made to go to heaven. They were made to live forever in paradise earth. -Proverbs 2:21-22.

After Adam and Eve´s rebellion against their heavenly father, God saw it fit to set a secondary governmental kingdom as an expression of His Sovereignty. Since the first century C.E., He has been selecting 144,000 humans to rule with Christ in heaven over a great crowd who will remain on the earth with the prospect of eternal life on an earthly paradise. -Revelation 7:1-4, 9-16; 14:1-4; 5:9, 10.

Solomon, the constructor of the temple at Jerusalem, stated that the “heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens” cannot contain God. (1Ki 8:27) As the Creator of the heavens, Jehovah’s position is far above them all, and “his name alone is unreachably high. His dignity is above earth and heaven.” (Ps 148:13) Jehovah measures the physical heavens as easily as a man would measure an object by spreading his fingers so that the object lies between the tips of the thumb and the little finger. (Isa 40:12) Solomon’s statement does not mean that God has no specific place of residence. Nor does it mean that he is omnipresent in the sense of being literally everywhere and in everything. This can be seen from the fact that Solomon also spoke of Jehovah as hearing “from the heavens, your established place of dwelling,” that is, the heavens of the spirit realm.—1Ki 8:30, 39.

Thus, in the physical sense, the term “heavens” covers a wide range. While it may refer to the farthest reaches of universal space, it may also refer to something that is simply high, or lofty, to a degree beyond the ordinary. Thus, those aboard storm-tossed ships are said to “go up to the heavens, . . . down to the bottoms.” (Ps 107:26) So, too, the builders of the Tower of Babel intended to put up a structure with its “top in the heavens,” a “skyscraper,” as it were. (Ge 11:4; compare Jer 51:53.) And the prophecy at Amos 9:2 speaks of men as ‘going up to the heavens’ in a vain effort to elude Jehovah’s judgments, evidently meaning that they would try to find escape in the high mountainous regions.

Spiritual Heavens.

The same original-language words used for the physical heavens are also applied to the spiritual heavens. As has been seen, Jehovah God does not reside in the physical heavens, being a Spirit. However, since he is “the High and Lofty One” who resides in “the height” (Isa 57:15), the basic sense of that which is “lifted up” or “lofty” expressed in the Hebrew-language word makes it appropriate to describe God’s “lofty abode of holiness and beauty.” (Isa 63:15; Ps 33:13, 14; 115:3) As the Maker of the physical heavens (Ge 14:19; Ps 33:6), Jehovah is also their Owner. (Ps 115:15, 16) Whatever is his pleasure to do in them, he does, including miraculous acts.—Ps 135:6.

In many texts, therefore, the “heavens” stand for God himself and his sovereign position. His throne is in the heavens, that is, in the spirit realm over which he also rules. (Ps 103:19-21; 2Ch 20:6; Mt 23:22; Ac 7:49) From his supreme or ultimate position, Jehovah, in effect, ‘looks down’ upon the physical heavens and earth (Ps 14:2; 102:19; 113:6), and from this lofty position also speaks, answers petitions, and renders judgment. (1Ki 8:49; Ps 2:4-6; 76:8; Mt 3:17) So we read that Hezekiah and Isaiah, in the face of a grave threat, “kept praying . . . and crying to the heavens for aid.” (2Ch 32:20; compare 2Ch 30:27.) Jesus, too, used the heavens as representing God when asking the religious leaders whether the source of John’s baptism was “from heaven or from men.” (Mt 21:25; compare Joh 3:27.) The prodigal son confessed to having sinned “against heaven” as well as against his own father. (Lu 15:18, 21) “The kingdom of the heavens,” then, means not merely that it is based in and rules from the spiritual heavens but also that it is “the kingdom of God.”—Da 2:44; Mt 4:17; 21:43; 2Ti 4:18.

Kids are way more open to God and some of the ones in hospitals are quite aware of not only God's existence but their guardian angels. That is because there is no illusions in hospitals, adults are ususally at a loss on how to make them better try going to a childrens ward one day

Heaven is a place where people go when they die. Its a beautiful place with sining angels and all your friends and family will be there!

We aren't ready yet! God wants us to live all our life before going to heaven.

Sir, your man made religion does NOT have the answer. But We Muslims have the answer that you seek.

Who is GOD/Allah?

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

1. Say: He is Allah, the One and Only;

2. Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;

3. He begetteth not, nor is He begotten;

4. And there is none like unto Him.

This is a 4 line definition of God Almighty, self explanatory.

" Allah - there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence. Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, and they encompass not a thing of His knowledge except for what He wills. His throne extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation tires Him not. And He is the Most High, the Most Great. Quran 2:255

" And say, "Praise to Allah , who has not taken a son and has had no partner in [His] dominion and has no [need of a] protector out of weakness; and glorify Him with [great] glorification." Quran 17:111

God! There is no god but HE, the Living, the Everlasting.

Slumber seizes Him not, neither sleep;

to HIM belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth.

Who is there that shall intercede with HIM save by His leave?

He knows what lies before them and what is after them,

and they comprehend not anything of His knowledge save such as HE wills.

His Throne comprises the heavens and earth;

the preserving of them oppresses Him not;

He is the All-high, the All-glorious.

—The "Throne Verse", 2:255, revealed in Medina[98]

Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth.

The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp:

the Lamp enclosed in Glass:

the glass as it were a brilliant star:

Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive,

neither of the east nor of the west,

whose oil is well-nigh luminous,

though fire scarce touched it:

Light upon Light!

Allah doth guide whom He will to HIS Light:

Allah doth set forth Parables for men:

and Allah doth know all things.

The famous "Light Verse", part of the sura An-Nur, 24:35

Why should you. Children often have imaginary friends by themselves. You must not tell them about another.