AGuest	Your 'point' is great! May I ask you, though...
	As a father, were your children BORN knowing good and bad? Would you not have done everything you could to keep them from EVER knowing bad... if you could? What if all you needed to do was warn them of a danger... and all they needed to do was listen to you? Would you still say, "Yeah, but I want them to be <i>experienced</i>, well-rounded, so I think they NEED to know what sickness, pain, and death is. I mean, I know bad... and they should, too." Would you not, PARTICULARLY having known bad... Death... yourself, and what it COULD do to them and cause them... at least TRY to warn them? The 'voice' I hear IS 'reason', Daddy-O. As a mom, I PROMISE you that if there had been ANY way I could have saved either of my children a single day of pain, if there was ANY way I could have ensured their utter bliss and happiness, and if that assurance was simply a warning... you bet I would have warned them. Trust me, my kids KNOW my 'motto': You don't HAVE to make mistakes to learn; you can, instead, learn by OTHER'S mistakes. I have always told them... and would tell them if we were in the garden... wait... and watch what happens. You think I would have said, "Yeah, go ahead, eat?!" Nope, not me. I would have said, "Well, let's wait a 'day' and see what happens to those two. THEN if nothings happens, perhaps we'll take a bite. But NOT before the 'day' is over." And of course, we would have known the LENGTH of a 'day' back then, yes? LOLOLOL! Even my Lord wasn't born KNOWING good and bad, Daddy-O. He had to LEARN it. And he did, because he LISTENED to his Father. Promise. <B>Isaiah 7:16</B> I love you, too, as wide as the seas. All the way to Unk's house, even. Your servant, friend and slave of Christ, SJ (who wonders why my 'castles in the sky' are such a bother to some... I mean, as long as I don't ask you to JOIN something... or donate to it, right? LOL!!)
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