RE: Question about two possible attributes of God
June 5, 2013 at 2:04 am
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2013 at 2:05 am by littleendian.)
(June 5, 2013 at 1:59 am)fr0d0 Wrote: "The tree of knowledge of good and evil". You think that's a regular tree?That's how it was described, like a regular old tree with a regular old apple and a regular old serpent on it. Regular!
(June 5, 2013 at 1:59 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The story is descriptive, not prescriptive. It describes the nature of humanity.Yes, one can bend over backwards and try to see it that way, possible, but I could do the same thing with any cheap old Tom Clancy novel, or The Hobbit, or whatever. Where there's a will there's a way.
(June 5, 2013 at 1:59 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Sacrifice is the human answer to his shortfall. He cannot be perfect, but he can make a sacrifice to try to atone for his imperfections.Ah, okay, makes perfect sense. NOT. I'm not trying to hijack this to another animal-rights thread but killing someone else is not atonement, now killing oneself, that's better and it also ends those "imperfections" you were talking about. But that's just me, your milage may worry (sic).
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
