(February 4, 2016 at 9:17 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 4, 2016 at 8:36 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: 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.
According to the fairy tale Ezekiel changed the rules and everyone else, including Jesus and Mohammed, obeyed.
As it says in Ezekiel chapter 18 you only have to worry about your own butt. What the other guy did doesn't affect you.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...EV;NIV;NLV
Of course if a man has sex with a woman who is on her period he shall die. God doesn't like that! It's off to the lake of fire.
Ezekiel 18:14-20 (CEV) = "14 But suppose this evil man has a son who sees his father do these things and refuses to act like him. 15 He doesn’t eat meat at local shrines or worship Israel’s idols, and he doesn’t have sex with someone else’s wife. 16 He never cheats or robs anyone and doesn’t even demand security for a loan. He gives food and clothes to the poor 17 and refuses to do anything evil[a] or to charge interest. And he obeys all my laws and teachings. Such a man will live. His own father sinned, but this good man will not be put to death for the sins of his father. 18 It is his father who will die for cheating and robbing and doing evil.
19 You may wonder why a son isn’t punished for the sins of his father. It is because the son does what is right and obeys my laws. 20 Only those who sin will be put to death. Children won’t suffer for the sins of their parents, and parents won’t suffer for the sins of their children. Good people will be rewarded for what they do, and evil people will be punished for what they do."
