RE: Why is it okay when God kills people?
May 16, 2017 at 4:39 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2017 at 4:49 am by Fake Messiah.)
(May 14, 2017 at 12:30 pm)Lek Wrote: As far as I can tell the bible doesn't say that nothing had died yet at that time. Eve told told the serpent that God told her she would die if she ate of the tree.
So why did they need to eat? For pleasure? Ha? So it says there was death before the fall, because Adam and Eve had to ingest and digest living cells in order to survive. The only way around that was to eat of the fruit of the tree of eternal life. That tree wouldn't need to be there if they already had eternal life. That's why God kicked them out of the garden before they could eat of that tree too.
What if Adam never ate from either tree? Or from any tree? Would he eventually starve to death?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
