Post by midcan5 on Jul 5, 2010 7:29:13 GMT -5
Emrys Westacott asks a probing question.
"Imagine that right after briefing Adam about which fruit was allowed and which forbidden, God had installed a closed-circuit television camera in the garden of Eden, trained on the tree of knowledge. Think how this might have changed things for the better. The serpent sidles up to Eve and urges her to try the forbidden fruit. Eve reaches her hand out...."
Does it? Imagine Bernie Madoff had a Jiminy Cricket looking over his shoulder....
www.philosophynow.org/issue79/79westacott.htm