ABSTRACT
Rudolf otto in The Idea of the Holy has explored view that primitive man found the deity both fascinating and fearful. It is often said that children are similar to the primitives in their approach to the holy. In evaluating the pupils’ replies to the question of why Moses would not look at God, some supplementary questions were asked later to clarify the assessment of their thinking. Pupils in the secondary schools appear to continue their Junior school religious concepts of the holy until about their twelfth year, when gradually physical ideas tend to give way from non-physical, material anomalies, to spiritualised ideas of a more consistent kind. A distinction begins to be made by the brighter and older adolescents, despite the literal authority of the Bible continuing, that a story such as Burning Bush is a subjective account of great religious leader's experience at a primitive time, when God was very partially revealed, or only dimly seen by men.
