RE: Is becoming like God good or evil?
July 26, 2012 at 1:16 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2012 at 1:38 am by Godscreated.)
(July 25, 2012 at 4:19 pm)Ryantology Wrote: I didn't eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
If there's a God and he condemns mankind to pain, sickness, poverty and death because he essentially played mind games with his first two humans, then you who worship this God worship a real bastard. Because a) I would never bait anyone (especially my own children, at a point in their development when they have no wisdom to speak of) into such a trap, and b) even if I felt inclined to punish them for springing the trap, that punishment, or any I would hand out for any reason, would affect only the specific individuals responsible for the offense.
You'd be better off worshiping me. I'm not a god, but I'm also not a sociopathic jackass.
What part of scripture says God did not give them complete understanding as adult people? I seemed to have miss that part that said they were child like. Who lied to you?
(July 25, 2012 at 6:47 pm)Faith No More Wrote:Godschild Wrote:The plan could not have been made fool proof or any other proof, this would have eliminated choice, the choice to obey, this was God's plan, to give man freedom to choose. God did not want it to happen the way it did, He allowed man through choice to set the future.(Bolding mine)
So, are you saying that even though God did not want it to happen that way, he allowed the actions of two people to condemn the billions to come, because the ability to choose was what he cherished most? Don't Christians say that God gives us free-will, so we can make the decision to love him? Doesn't that mean that God prioritizes love from his creation over its suffering?
And what about the idea that God could have tested A&E's loyalty without condemning the rest of the human race?
Your choices show your love for God, without the choices you have no way of showing your love for God. You actually answered your own question in the bold above. Choosing to love, bet you didn't see that one coming, hey.
God allowed man to chose the future, it was not a loyalty test, that's a ridiculous assumption, it was a choice of love and they chose to disobey and allow sin to enter a perfect creation.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.