From: (Anonymous)	Date: November 20th, 2003 10:32 pm (UTC)		(Link)
Your views are convicing

Your views are convincing. However:
1)You may have felt pain and suffering as a baby,a fetus, or as far back we begin to exist, but just don't remember.
2)God may not be perfect or completely all knowing. God could be a force although I personally think it is more so.
3)God really may not admit everyone into heaven according to what we do here in this "world".
3)I'm 36. I used to always think that God may or may not exist, but there have been too many "things" happening in the last 7 years or so to chalk up to coincidence or science (actually they have probably been happening all my life, but I haven't been noticing them)
4)I am a firm believer in Science, Mathematics, and evolution. But I think that something is behind all of it, whether a "Heaven" or "Hell" exists or not.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: December 18th, 2004 06:31 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I am a sailor. I have a friend who wanted to learn how to sail. He told me he'd read a dozen books and watched several videos on sailing.

When I finally got him on board, I asked him if it was what he thought it was going to be. He said no, he really thought it would be better than it was. He never went again.

The point is, that knowledge is never enough. It cannot replace experience. Your statement that we could have had knowledge of evil without the experience is true, but it would be shallow. One is with the head, the other the heart. Now, the question, did we need to experience evil is another matter. Well, if we want to experience the opposite,love and goodness, it's a good comparison.