A Literal Genesis Entails An Evil God

[Ryantology]

Your argument is how you perceive your own truth, according your own opinion, of how you understand the narrative, but the actual truth in the narrative, is far greater and loveing than your biassed assumptions will permit you to understand. When it comes down to it, you are no differant than your two Christian freinds as neither of you really want to understand the narrative, as its your own opinions that drive you and not the truth !

To you, the 'truth' is nothing more than anything that makes God look good and righteous. Comrade Napoleon is always right.

When parents bring a child into the world are they being evil, they knowingly are exposing the child to all the dangers this world has to offer. Is this loving the child, or an evil act by allowing the child to have to experience all the world can throw at the child.
This is the reasoning you are using with God, so by your reasoning parents are evil by bring a child into this world.

When parents bring a child into the world, they are exposing the child to all the dangers of the world, but how does that make them evil? No parent can change the world so that those evils are not there. No parent makes the world full of evil so as to intentionally endanger their children. goodnews is far too dense to realize it, but he has provided the truth of the entire matter: "God did not need to make them sin, He just created the circumstances needed." Adam and Eve would never have sinned if God did not intentionally make it possible for them to have sinned. It is, therefore, his fault. He knew what would happen and did it anyway. Adam and Eve were victims of a God who quite cruelly tricked them into sinning. It makes Jesus' salvation a diabolically fraudulent gesture. Jesus is 'saving' mankind from a 'crime' nobody alive had anything to do with, and it was as Raven said: the world's first case of entrapment. I cannot imagine what sort of self-delusion is required to analyze this fable and come to the conclusion that God is just and merciful, but there's no doubt that a lot of people manage it. If you think you are a filthy sinner, it's because you inherited that from a God who made sure you did.