My older brother and I were supposed to be working in the garden ...and a very small part of that included picking tomatoes. We were to pick the good ripe ones, but we were also to pick the rotten ones ...and feed them to the cows, which would always graze near, waiting for a treat.
But, we had an extra treat in store for them ...or you could say, we viewed it as a treat for us. We began making sport of throwing the tomatoes at the cows, watching them splatter all over our eager company.
The comment was made, with full knowledge that Dad may not exactly approve of our method of disposing of the rotten ones, "If you see Dad, holler, so we can get back to work!"
We may be able to get away with a few stunts in our youth, but how absurd is it to think that our Heavenly Father doesn't see? We may hide things from our families, our friends, and our best friend ...our spouse, but God sees it all.
Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and they hid.
How could they possibly believe they could hide? Well, it seems that part of the knowledge of good and evil ...involves the understanding of this. The good, is knowing that we do wrong. But, the evil involves the deception of thinking we can hide, or convincingly rationalize it ...and maybe even blame others. And the more we entertain this deception, the more absurd it gets.
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