(January 11, 2017 at 9:58 am)Godschild Wrote: You are not thinking about man's sinful nature.God is calling man from his natural state and Satan sets up a way for man to remain in his natural state and separated from God.
Sin is our natural state? I was under the impression that the Christian belief is that perfection is our natural state, but that it was stripped from Adam and Eve and humanity inherited it as a result. In any case, if it is our fallen nature that places such a large obstacle in our path, then isn't God obligated to make it easier to find him? I didn't eat from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge; Eve did. If my inability to connect with God is due to this flaw --handed down to me as punishment for someone else's crime-- and God is not compensating for this flaw, he is leaving me in the hands of his arch-enemy, someone who wins a minor victory every time another soul is lost. If God wants us all to be saved, he is acting against his own desires.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
