Every morning before my daughter heads to kindergarten I read her a Bible story. This morning I read something Jesus said and asked her if there was anything she didn’t understand.
“Well.… where was Jesus when he said this?”
“In Israel. Why?”
“I was wondering if he was on earth or in heaven when he said it.”
“He was on earth, honey.”
And then my three-year old son said, “Or on fire.”
That’s almost certainly not as funny to you as it was to me, but I present it here for your consideration. Whenever Jesus said something, he was either in heaven, on earth, or on fire.
It may have been completely random, OR it might be because he has a vivid recollection that Jesus (if he’s been taught that it was Jesus) came and helped out Rack, Shack, and Benny. It doesn’t take hearing that story more than once to remember that Jesus was on fire.
Otherwise, I’m stumped. Did you find out where he got that from?
I think it was just word association. He heard “on earth” and so he thought “what are other things you can be on?” And then he realized “you can be on fire.”