Welcome to Curiously Caitlin, a podcast where we try to make theology make sense.

I'm Caitlin Chess, and every week on this show you will hear a kids' question about God, theology, or the Bible,

and then I'll talk with a scholar who will try to answer it.

Some of the questions are silly, some are more serious, but all of them will help us learn more about God.

And hopefully along the way, us grownups will learn from these kids and scholars how to be more

curious, ask more questions, and learn from each other.

I don't know.

That doesn't make any sense.

Curiously. Yeah.

Dr. Hill, thank you for joining me today.

I really appreciate you being willing to be grilled by the kid question I have for you.

I'm excited about it. This is a hopefully I can knock

some rust off. I used to teach, you know, middle schoolers and be in elementary school principal,

so I should be better at this than I will be. We'll see. We'll see. This is Dr. Daniel Hill. He's an

assistant professor of Christian theology at Baylor's George W. Truitt Theological Seminary. He studies Theological

Anthropology, in other words, how we think theologically about what it means to be human.

He's the author of the book gathered on the road to Zion, and a forthcoming book about how

19th century abolitionists can help us think about a theology of public life.

And fun fact, he was one of my seminary professors.

All right, so this is our kid question today.

How come no one is perfect and how come Jesus is it perfect even though humans are not supposed to be perfect?

A very good question, a very smart question.

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