Intermediate step to beginning of life uncovered

[Benton]

(06-15-2015, 03:02 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: 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.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by saying it's different and then using that example which is the same thing. One, a parent says "do/don't do" and the other a parent says "do/don't do."

Neither a 6 year old nor someone of innocence at an older age (we assume, anyway, Genesis doesn't state their ages as it's all allegory), understand good and evil, only do/don't.

Want a mulligan?