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How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?
RE: How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?
(October 24, 2016 at 10:27 pm)FallentoReason Wrote:
(October 24, 2016 at 10:00 pm)Lek Wrote: Aren't we the ones who sinned and the ones who need to be freed from death?  The atonement was all for us.  God never sinned, so there was no need to atone for himself.

"We" didn't sin. God created the conditions for A&E to eventually sin without knowing what they had done, because only through the tree could they hold the ability to know. It's like being accused of breaking a law without being taught what the legal system is. Once again, that's God's slip up.

Of course Adam and Eve knew that they would be offending God if they ate of the fruit of that tree. It's not that they didn't have the ability to know that they should obey God. You have to give the writer of Genesis credit for having some smarts. Do really think that the story is portraying God as setting up Adam and Eve? He made it clear. "Read my lips. Don't eat from the fruit of that tree." I can picture Adam saying to Eve: "Duh. God said not to eat this, but he didn't teach us to know evil, so I guess it's alright." When they disobeyed God, then they obtained knowledge of the effects of evil. You need to consider what the writer was trying to relate through the story.
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RE: How can a Christian reject - by Minimalist - February 14, 2014 at 8:46 pm
RE: How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian? - by Lek - October 25, 2016 at 12:20 pm
RE: - by Fake Messiah - October 25, 2016 at 3:23 pm
RE: How can a Christian reject... - by FallentoReason - October 26, 2016 at 12:51 am

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