06-15-2015, 03:02 PM
(06-15-2015, 01:05 PM)Benton Wrote: My daughter is 6. She hates to clean her room. I always give her an option – clean your room, get a prize (usually a Blizzard), or don't clean your room and don't get a pick on TV all weekend.
She doesn't watch much TV on weekends. I know she's not going to clean her room. I don't emphatically know, no, but I know like a parent knows my daughter is not going to clean her room. That doesn't stop me from throwing out option A, option B.
And He doesn't create evil beings. He creates life. Life chooses its own path, its own option A, option B. That's actually a big part of Christianity, accepting that your choices are your own and they lead you to where you end up.
By the age of 6, you have instilled a sense of right and wrong in your daughter. Her conscience isn't fully developed, but she has a rudimentary understanding. I'm sure she knows if she doesn't do what Dad tells her that is bad.
Adam and Eve didn't have that understanding. They couldn't understand wrong until after they did wrong by eating the forbidden fruit. God told Eve she would die if she ate the forbidden fruit. The serpent told her she wouldn't die if she ate the forbidden fruit. Eve was like, "Oh, okay. " She didn't have the ability to know what the snake was suggesting was wrong because she didn't know what "wrong" was.
