#4 Burnt Fingers
[Pryer 1.14] Let me be honest here. If your father, and I'm sure yours did, tell you not to put your finger on a hot burner or through a fire, and then you did, would you blame your father for telling you and so putting the idea into your head or do you blame yourself for testing his advice and seeing indeed what would happen? So too, Adam who operated contrary to the Will of God merely for the Sake of some new-fancy operated from his own voluntary Act, decided to test what God has told him knowing fulling well that the punishment would be the lost of his heavenly life; did so anyways, somewhat like a rogue child that gives you the finger and figures that he will get away with it because you do not have the heart to really take him to task. [Pryer 1.15] ] Well, that is a simple, but clear Representation of the Case, how Matters stood Pietro della Vecchia, St Dominic and the Devil c. 1630 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art betwixt God ...