Quote:It's crazy how so mean people see this story as more than it is, the story starts out with God's love for man and all He wanted was for man to love Him. To show that love it was to come through obedience. God walked with them through the garden every evening, they understood that God expected them to obey this one simple rule through the free will He gave them. They lived in a harmonious and loving relationship until Adam and Eve messed up. God knew what they had done the minute they disobeyed, yet when He came to them He was not raging as many seem to believe. God called out to them as a father to His children, asking where they were, even though He knew. Up until this point the relationship was based on absolute love, then the fall and the end ie. death of a perfect loving relationship.
Maybe its me but what's crazy is that this doesn't strike you as utterly weird, storywise.
We have God - all powerful, knowing etc. etc. wants a playmate that doesn't understand good from bad but will obey his every command without question or hesitation so that the dumbass playmate can earn God's "love."
This love lasts precisely as long as the total obedience lasts the second the "child" commits a single infraction he chucks them out.
Why are Christians unable to tell the difference between a perfect loving relationship and the total obedience demanded of a slave from his master?
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
