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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Meggy, meggy, meggy... WE, functional modern humans, are responsible for our actions, because WE know the difference between right and wrong. The Bible clearly states that Adam and Eve had to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil BEFORE they knew the difference between right and wrong. Therefore, before they ate, they couldn't have been responsible for their own actions any more than a child who hasn't developed mentally enough to understand 'right' and 'wrong' could. Essentially, they had a mental (or moral, more accurately) age of two to four. Adam and Eve were guilty of gullibility, perhaps, but NOT wrongdoing. They couldn't be. They had no concept of 'wrong.' What the Bible states God did was essentially equivalent to: Putting a 4-year-old child in a room with a toy Or a lot of toys. **(God places Adam, & The Tree of Knowledge in Eden) Telling the child not to play with one toy in particular (thus making it 'special' and a focus of curiosity for the child, as any parent can tell you). **(God's command to Adam: do not eat from the Tree of Knowledge) Leaving the room. **(God departed from Eden, or at least he was away while the whole apple thing happened) WATCHING, from the other room, as an adult you KNOW does not have the best intentions of the child at heart enters, and tells the kid that you were only kidding, and its okay to play with the toy. **(God allowed Satan to enter the garden and tempt Adam, since, as we know, nothing can happen without God's knowing about it.) I put it to you that only a very stupid and unfit parent could actually bring themselves justify being angry with that child under those circumstances. Pissed at the other ADULT, sure. But the kid? No. It's unjustifiable. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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