There is no doubt that we are born into an evil and tragic world and a tragedy in Idaho illustrates this — “The details are shatteringly ordinary. A 2-year-old toddler, sitting in a shopping cart in a Walmart, his mother’s purse unattended and within reach as she shopped. Three girls, all under age 11 — relatives of the boy and his mother, the police said — tagging along. A frosty morning in the northern Idaho panhandle, the temperature in the teens. Holiday break. The clothing aisles near electronics, back of the store.
Then, shortly before 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, as the st
ore video cameras recorded the scene, the little boy found a gun in his mother’s purse and it discharged once at near point-blank range from where she stood, less than arm’s length away, said Lt. Stu Miller, a spokesman for the Kootenai County sheriff’s office. She died at the scene, he said, her death appearing to be accidental.
“He probably still doesn’t even know what has happened,” Lieutenant Miller said of the boy.”
Evil is not our condemnation requiring us to be sprinkled to be saved but when we come to reasoning age then we have a choice whether or not to participate in evil or not.
John 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
John 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
Jesus plainly tells us when knowledge meets reason and becomes available to us and moral choices begin at an early age, it is this power of choice by which we shall be judged. Evil exists for it is an evil world but the choice to participate in evil when knowledge and reason is made available to us is our condemnation.
A terrible thing happened in Idaho that was present because of it being an evil world, and a life was taken innocently, but God will not condemn but if this boy was of reasoning age and took the life of his mother he would be guilty of his mothers blood and held accountable for this on the day of judgment.