(May 12, 2013 at 1:16 pm)smax Wrote:(May 12, 2013 at 4:52 am)Godschild Wrote: No and I'm following Christ all the way to heaven, see you there or not.
Just asking.
The conditions laid out to the babies (Adam and Eve) were basically impossible to meet.
You concede that:
1. God created temptation
2. God didn't give Adam and Eve any knowledge of right from wrong
3. God placed a entity with superior intellect in their path. An entit that was known for his cunning (he talked a third of the angels into leaving heaven). An entity that had designs on thwarting god's plan and bringing about pain and suffering for man.
These concessions, on your part, can only lead to one of two conclusions:
Either god is incompetent and stupid or he intended for man to fall from grace.
Either way, he is ultimately responsbible for the fall.
There is no other reasonable conclusion. Well, at least no one has presented one as of yet.
The obvious conclusion is that the whole myth was conjured up by semi-nomadic inhabitants of a middle-eastern area somewhere between the Jordan and Mesopotamia.
The god was modeled on some king, the garden modeled on some great garden of the time... wasn't there such a thing in the list of the seven wonders of the ancient world?
The fall was modeled on the fall of someone who was made to dwell in that garden, perhaps...
