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Did Adam and eve really have a choice?

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09-23-2005 2:21 PM 		Reply to: Message 6 by gene90
09-23-2005 1:58 PM

How do we know how clearly Adam and Eve could have understood the consequences?
I think the answer is clear from the creation story itself:
Before they ate the forbidden fruit, they had no knowledge of good and evil. Therefore they could not understand the consequences. Nor could they even understand the idea that it was wrong.
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After they had partaken of the fruit, they then knew good and evil, and so were then able to understand. But it was too late.
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09-24-2005 9:53 AM 		Reply to: Message 18 by Brian
09-24-2005 9:08 AM

Re: Bad God!
Anyone who can kill a child for accidently bumping into him is not a nice person.
Hi, Brian.
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Can you give us the source of the quote you used to make this point. Inquiring minds want to know.
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