(May 16, 2010 at 10:00 pm)Shell B Wrote:(May 16, 2010 at 9:52 pm)Watson Wrote: Shell B, where that child commits an act they are not aware is bad or good is where forgiveness comes in to play with Christianity. "Forgive them, Father...they know not what they do.
Why didn't he just show them before they brutally murdered an innocent child?
Wait, I thought the hypothetical scenario was that a child killed some one before they had had time to learn that doing so was wrong? Is the pypothetical story different, or am I just confused here?
In any case, it could be that in killing that person, the child will have learned that killing is wrong and why. Understanding can come from experience, though it need not to in this case. Perhaps there is some other reason for thsi event. Who is to say?
