(November 10, 2017 at 11:49 am)Khemikal Wrote:(November 10, 2017 at 11:18 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: if Adam was created immortal, why did he need a tree to give him what he already had?
Are you asking within the context of the story, or as an expression of earlier and globally common human religious traditions?
The only reason for the former..is the latter. Essentially, the tree of life was there for the same reason that the damsel is in distress. Just-so.
I was asking within the context of the story. But you're right, so far I haven't heard anything approaching a reasonable explanation that doesn't add stuff that's not there.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
