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(06-20-2022, 04:31 PM)fredtoast Wrote: You obviously did not understand the question.

Why are innocent children (as well as everyone else who has lived over the past few thousand years) being punished for something they did not do?

Isn't the entire theory of "punishment" meant to be doing something bad to someone who did something bad?  Can you even define it as "punishment" when it is enforced on people who did nothing wrong?  Seems to me "cruelty" is a better term in this case.

I think the Adam and Eve story opened up the door for free will. It wasn't really punishment by God, but free will that was exposed. God didn't want to take away that free will so he gave humans the opportunity to explore it - which lead to sin, suffering, etc. 

I don't really take the Old Testament literally, but this is what I gather from it none the less.