A Literal Genesis Entails An Evil God

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I did not concede

All these concessions are inferred by your position:

1) because the scriptures tell us God does not tempt, you want me to agree with you so bad you will lie, sad bud, very sad.

You concede that God created the tree of knowledge and forbid partaking, therefore, god created temptation.

Get with the program, dude.

I did not concede 2) God gave Adam and Eve knowledge of right and wrong, if He had not then he Could not have given them a rule, He is omniscient, you again tell a lie to make it seem I agree with you, sad.

The tree itself is the knowledge of good and evil. Right is good. Wrong is evil. Do you disagree?

The story itself woud have us believe that god's only desire for humans was that they remain ignorant of the difference between these elements forever.

I did not concede 3) God did allow Satan to come into the presence of Adam and Eve....

You are contradicting yourself. You are saying you didn't concede while admitting you conceded this point at the same time.

Being that I did not concede anything to you, then your conclusions are just as full of useless info as your comments are.

I never said you conceded them to me. I simply said that you made these concessions, and you did.

Further more, of course you conceded these points, because they are irrefutable.

God did:

1 Create temptation
2 Restrict his creation from knowing right from wrong
3 Place a harmful influence in his creations path

Irrefutable points. Simple as that.

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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...

It certainly is a myth, I'm merely addressing the dynamics of the myth.