(February 4, 2016 at 8:36 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(February 4, 2016 at 7:35 pm)Brian37 Wrote: [hide]All religions teach one doctrine: Believe and obey without exception.
Critical thinking and questions are to be avoided. Do as you're told to do and how you're told to do it. And if you do that you will go to heaven and not end up in hell (or the volcano).
Ezekiel changed the rules to where every person is only responsible for his own sins. Jesus reinforced that and Mohammed adopted that line of thinking. So no one has to worry over what Adam & Eve did. He only has to worry about what he does himself, under the revised rules. Of course some governments continue to punish the sons for their fathers' crimes. And in America we all like to blame the entire group for the crimes of the individual.
No, sorry, it is based on "sins of the father" otherwise there would be no need for the Adam and Eve story at all, there would be no "fall of man" which getting kicked out of the garden did for all future generations. If I am responsible for myself and they are not to blame, then every generation should be set in the garden not perpetuate the repetition of being put on a crappy planet with all sorts of imperfections like disease and natural disasters and crime and war.
Not that I would want to be in that garden. I would simply be a dumb robot following commands without any say and also not knowing I was a pawn in a bet between God and Lucifer
"Revised the rules" wow, all powerful god "poofs" the universe and planet into existence but needs humans to right a book for him, takes over 1,000 years to complete and 40 authors with books left out and needs humans to vote on a final version, only for more humans later to write competing versions like NIV and book of Mormon.
