"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
"If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence."
You keep interpreting an ancient text as if it was set in concrete. It's not. You want to enforce a specific interpretation and I disagree with the view since, IMO, an all-merciful God doesn't condemn anyone. The people themselves choose to stay away from God/Grace/the Light/Goodness in favor of the darkness.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Cypress (01-31-2023)
You're playing word games. You say God doesn't condemn us and that we make our own choice to go toward light or dark, but that is only the case because Adam at the apple. Adam doesn't eat the apple if Satan doesn't exist and Satan doesn't exist unless God creates him.
I'll also add that God KNEW Adam would eat the apple because God knows everything.
"If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence."
Go look in a mirror, dumbass.
Another of your interpretations in which I disagree.
Agreed on that part. Of course God knew Adam would eat the apple. The story is more story than fact. It's to explain why mankind is different from the other animals. While some later assholes interpreted it as "the original sin"..and pin it on Eve, BTW, it's really mankind becoming self-aware. Also note that, even in the story, Satan is just a temptor and didn't force anything. Eve chose to bite the apple and then offered it to Adam.... who appears to be a lazy dumbass in comparison to Eve.
This is another interpretation:
God created the Garden and in the middle put the Tree of Knowledge. Then he created all the animals to live in the Garden along with humans. God let the humans have dominion over the Garden but warned that the Tree of Knowledge would make them forever unhappy if they ate from it since it would make them self-aware and overly curious.
Adam was a bit of a dumbass and meekly complied, but Eve was a take-charge kinda gal and was already curious. Eventually she was curious enough to taste from the Tree of Knowledge. Awareness flooded through her like a wave. It both saddened her and gladdened her. Wanting to share this with Adam, she offered him a taste too. Adam, being a bit of a dumbass, would eat anything Eve gave. He, too, became self-aware.
God didn't throw Adam and Eve out of the Garden, they left like fledgling birds leaving a nest. God smiled.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Last edited by ZenMode; 01-31-2023 at 03:07 PM.
"If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence."
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
There's no steawman. God orchestrated and/or condones every terrible thing that happens. He knew Adam would eat the apple and start a chain of events. He also knew that revealing his son to a tiny area in the middle east, a thousand years after other religions were established around the world, would mean that the poorest people, who live the most horrible of lives, would, best case scenario, be destroyed in a lake of fire or spend eternity being tortured in hell.
"If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence."
"If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence."
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