(November 25, 2012 at 7:47 pm)Daniel Wrote: Who's to say that 40,000 years ago God didn't choose all people? The Isralites represented an unbroken lineage of being in covenant with God going back to "Adam" ie the first man, that would be around 40,000 years ago or more. That's a long time to allow for the other nations to fall away from God.
Unbroken lineage? How could it be broken if everyone were descended from Adam? Not to mention that no one has yet explained the whole garden of Eden thing.
That would point to another reason why god is not good. God didn't give Adam or Eve the ability to distingush right from wrong. In fact, the fruit was 'knowledge of good and evil', therefore Adam and Eve didn't even know there was such a thing as wrong. God let Satan tempt them, knowing how it would end, and rather than allowing them to know the difference between right and wrong, he lets them fail, and them punishes them heavily.
