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God and Good Parenting

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mike the wiz
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01-10-2004 4:41 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by sidelined
01-10-2004 3:52 PM

Is the tree of knowledge of good and evil not like a loaded gun? A weapon is a definition given to describe that which can cause harm is it not?
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Just a quick point. They were told by God to not touch the tree. They understood language, and they understood the commandment of God. It's not like Adam and Eve were young children. Remember, Eve knew that God had told them not to touch it - when the serpent was talking her into it.
So the warning was there, unlike a loaded gun a child has not been told about. I suppose you could say it was a waiting loaded gun that an adult WAS warned about.
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01-14-2004 10:53 AM 		Reply to: Message 34 by apostolos
01-14-2004 10:43 AM

Sorry, I made the error of saying "to not touch the tree". Ofcourse you are correct, I should have scrutineered more, he said to "not eat of..."
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01-14-2004 11:09 AM 		Reply to: Message 36 by Silent H
01-14-2004 11:01 AM

Oops, sorry Sherlock, you daredevil scrutineer of mass intelligence, billowing your thoughts of Atheistic potential
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(I stood up for Xians).
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Well boil my heart in Jimmy Johnson over revs, how did I miss this supreme intelligent response from the Sherlock ....blow me Ralph will the wiz ever bother to read any posts but his own.
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