ABSTRACT
The Crossing of the Red Sea story is evocative of a variety of concepts of deity. It is ideal for testing out the pupil's concepts of historical perspective and whether or not what he knows about New Testament concepts of God, as taught or demonstrated by Christ, is transferable in making judgments about an Old Testament situation. Questions were designed to see what insight the pupils have into the nature of God's love. Questions about divine love inevitably involve questions of divine justice, which in the child's language and experience approximate to ideas of fairness. There is some discrepancy of the age at which distributive concepts prevail, Piaget's children appearing to achieve them a little earlier. For most pupils there is an intermediate stage before divine consistency is seen as a necessity.
