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[FONT="][FONT="]Well Adam’s and Eve’s minds were blocked from knowing good and evil, until they were unblocked by eating the forbidden fruit. Now we are born with an unblocked mind. I think something physical blocked their minds before the fruit, and that we are now born not having that thing. So it’s not like we inherit Adam’s personal sin, but the ability to sin. [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="][FONT="]Babies obviously do not know specifics like what a stop sign means, what the Ten Commandments say, what mom and dad’s rules are, etc. But I’ve been around enough newborns to recognize some are more patient than others. All babies cry to be fed or changed, but I recognized the good and bad in my children that is the same at age 14 and 27 that it was before they were even born. [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="][FONT="]My son would not let me sleep on my side, he would kick the bed and hurt my stomach. As long as I didn’t disturb him, he was laid back- that is true today. He’s very laid back unless you cross his line, then he is very bold until you get back over the line. The problem is it’s his line, not God’s line. [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="][FONT="]My daughter would let me sleep on my side, and interacted much with me. She knew the difference between the bed I was laying on, or if my hand was on my stomach. She would react to my hand wherever I put it on my stomach. She is more playful, and likes to talk to me a lot. We often get into really deep-thinking conversations, not just about the Bible, but like “Is a brain transplant possible, and if so, whose soul will be in that body?” [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="][FONT="]My granddaughter is still in the newborn stage. She is thee most patient newborn I’ve ever seen. She gives a little sound when she wants to be fed or changed, and if you pick her up she stops while you make her bottle. Her dad would scream until the moment you placed the bottle in his mouth. I’ll have to let you know how she turns out, but I can already tell her personality. [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="][FONT="]We are born with good qualities and bad qualities. Do they determine our fate? No, because we can conform to be like Christ, if we so choose. But we are born with a sense of right and wrong. And although babies can’t practice rules, and in that way are innocent, they can practice spiritual things like love and patience, or the opposite of those things- and in that way, they can have a guilty conscience. [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="][FONT="]“Even a child makes himself known by his actions, whether his conduct is pure and right.” Proverbs 20:11[/FONT][/FONT]