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[Serious] Trying close to my best to rationalize Christianity
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RE: Trying close to my best to rationalize Christianity
Welcome to the forums, sausagerock. It's an interesting analogy but stretching it too far seems unavoidable because of the immense differences between our characteristics and those ascribed to God. Adam and Eve may be reasonably analogous to the first pair of sapient devices, but we are not reasonably analogous to God and his angels.

It might be better to take Genesis as an allegory where the fall of Adam and Eve represents humanity becoming conscious of good and evil. That's the Baha'i interpretation. Not taking the account so literally resolves many issues, such as punishing people for doing something wrong when they did it before they knew what right and wrong were.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: Trying close to my best to rationalize Christianity - by Mister Agenda - January 15, 2020 at 10:45 am

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