(via cherrytooth)
A woman bakes a batch of cookies for a party. She warns her twins, aged 3, to not eat any. She explained to them, deceitfully, that If they did, then she would kill them. Not thinking things through carefully, she placed the cookies on a table, easily accessible to the twins. A brother who was older, wiser and more mature that the twins asked whether their mother had forbidden them to eat anything in the house. The girl twin, Edna, said that mother had only forbidden them to eat the cookies — on pain of death. The older brother chuckled and told his sister that parents did that a lot. He said: “Of course she wouldn’t kill you. She simply wants to deny you the pleasure of munching on the cookies. She doesn’t want to share the cookies. She wants to keep them all to herself.” Edna does exactly what any adult could predict: she eats one. Then, she persuades her twin brother Albert to eat another.
The mother returns, not aware of the twin’s disobedience. She notices crumbs on the table and on the twins’ lips. She correctly concludes that the twins have eaten cookies. She flies into a rage, beats them, and throws them out of the house to fend for themselves. She cuts them out of her will. She does all she can to make the lives of any future descendents of the twins miserable.
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- “Imputation - The connection of humanity to Adam and Eve,” ChristianBeliefs.org, at:http://christianbeliefs.org/articles/impute.html
- Paul Laughlin, “Remedial Christianity: What every believer should know about the faith, and probably doesn’t,” Polebridge Press, (2000), Page 153. Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store.
