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@denali-Christianson

im glad you resurrected it! I kinda want to hear yours and @obrian-of-the-surface-worlds opinions on the Predestination/freewill argument before I go, cause I may or may not have a very very long paragraph on it. Regarding that topic tho I think David Clotfelters Sinners in the Hands of a Good God makes a remarkable argument for the sovereignty of God in salvation.

Ooh, war violence? I think it’s an interesting question. Personally I feel it depends on the point you’re trying to get across. For a YA fantasy focused on youthful adventure, it may not be such a priority, or it may not even be helpful. But if you’re writing a historical fiction portraying the futility of war, it would be essential to have war violence or at least the consequences thereof to accurately communicate your point.

About innocence without ignorance, I think not. In a perfect world, or a perfect person, yes, but as our world is fallen and we are sinful, we cannot resist sinning, thus we lose our innocence. I think the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a good example. It gave Adam and Eve knowledge of evil, as well as good. But as they were in a fallen world, as fallen humans, without divine aid they could not retain innocence.

that’s just my twopence