And if I were to allow a known abuser to be with my young son, and my son was tricked by the abuser...?

Question

I should kick my son out of the house and not feel I am to blame in any way?

Sandy: No one said being the Devil's Advocate would encourage popularity. It is the cross I bear.

Sandy: lol. Given the answers from Christians, all too well, it seems. ;-)

Answer 1

Nice attempt at the garden. It's subtle, just not quite subtle enough.

Answer 2

Absolutely.
As an aside, young is relative to your age - and by no means implies
that your son is without knowledge and reason.

Sometimes you have to kick the bird out of the nest, so to speak.
Let it experience the world without all the blessings you provide.
Let it understand that it truly cannot live without your aid.
Maybe it could survive for a while, but not truly LIVE.

Then send an emissary to him, let him know that all will be forgiven if he just comes home, recognizes that he was wrong, and submits to your authority.

Then, after everyone involved is given enough time and experience to see what's really going on,destroy that known abuser outright - he failed his test as well.


Might the young son be a little egocentric to think that it's all about
him all of the time?

Tough love is tough, but it is still love.

:P

Answer 3

If you leave a KNOWN abuser to be with your young son, you are making an irresponsible and callous choice. Anything that happens to him is YOUR fault and the fault of the abuser- your pre-knowledge of the abuser's past is what would make such an act reprehensible.

Answer 4

If you were God, and if the son were Adam, and if the abuser were the Serpent, and if the house were the Garden of Eden, then no, you should not feel that you were to blame in any way.

If you were God the Son, would YOU have suffered a humiliating death on the Cross, at the hands of other sons and daughters of yours, in order to vanquish and pronounce a death sentence on that Abuser, and to give Adam's race the opportunity to have even the memory of that abuse wiped away?

So that the population of the eternal heaven would understand the gravity of rebellion, everything that happened in Genesis 3 demonstrates the wisdom, foresight, and LOVE of a Creator God who had given his children free will.

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Supporting details, if y'all are interested:

Adam was an adult, with a wife, and was accustomed to walking and talking with God in the cool of the day, before the Subtile Serpent showed up in the Garden of Eden. Being able to talk with snakes, and other animals, was really not so amazing by comparison. God had given Adam and his wife EXPLICIT instructions not to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Yes, God the right to kick Adam and Eve out of the Garden. And in His mercy, EVEN as He was pronouncing the punishment on Adam and Eve, God was indicating that he had a plan to bring the race of man back into the family home.

Genesis 3:15 is one of the earliest Messianic (seed of the woman) prophecies, and it is addressed to the Serpent. "I will put enmity between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

Also, immediately before expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden, God arranged for the first animal sacrifice. This foreshadowed the death of God's Only Begotten Son, the Christ, the Seed of the Woman, the Second Adam, whom God would send into the world, knowing that THIS Child would be abused, also. The skin of this sacrificed animal replaced the fig leaves with which Adam and Eve tried to cover themselves in their shame. (Incidentally, the sacrifice of this animal must have been horrible for Adam and Eve to watch, knowing that they were responsible for its death. Remember that God had made the animals as companions, not food, for Adam and Eve. This graphically illustrated to these former innocents the enormity of what they had just done.)

The bloodline of man had been tainted with original sin, so the race COULD not remain in this Paradise of Innocence. However, the blood sacrifice made it possible for the relationship between God and man to continue, outside the Garden. Within seven generations, Enoch's walk with God was so close, that, instead of letting him die at the end of his span, God took him straight back to Paradise, where, incidentally, the souls of the rest of the righteous dead found rest.

Mankind was expelled by God from the Garden of Eden, but the door back to Paradise was not closed forever, or even for very long.

Answer 5

You just love-a-love-a-love-a your logical fallacies, imperfect comparisons, and willfully ignorant for the sake of being inflammatory questions, don't you?

The devil doesn't need your advocacy. He does his job very well on his own. But it's good and kind and selfless of you to fight for him nonetheless.

Answer 6

If I have a grown son and he is tricked by a liar is it my fault? Or is it his freewill to choose to listen to a liar.

Answer 7

You could then claim to be all powerful, loving God.

Answer 8

no

Answer 9

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