(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 authors of the bible say so. The Bible is supposed to be the complete word of god, of which we are not to add nor subtract from. Unless, like me, you think this is silly superstition.
(November 25, 2012 at 9:56 pm)Darkstar Wrote: 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.
Not just that Darkstar, Adam did not pick from the tree himself if I remember the story correctly. He was led to eat of the fruit by the evil temptress eve, of which he was powerless to resist because he had not yet been taught right from wrong. He could not have imagined that Eve had not been directed of god to change the rules. So why was Adam punished?
Eve had been misled by a serpent, some say that this was Satan. If this is true, then she was outwitted by a supernatural being that surpassed the seductive qualities of a billion Madison Avenue Ad agencies and a billion teen age peers. It was a completely unfair advantage over a poor woman who did not know right from wrong nor had experienced any contact with evil.
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