(February 11, 2014 at 4:21 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Did anyone take up Jesus offer to cast the first stone? Would you? You're 100% completely perfect in every way imaginable? But if we're talking about normal human beings then not sinning isn't going to be on the agenda.Right, you're saying there's no choice. God made us sinners so that he could go through with his grand plan. He could've simply made the plan unnecessary.
Quote:It's not possible for humans to not sin if they aren't flawless.Whew! Lucky for god that we're flawed, then!
Quote:What it means is you don't have to try desperately to be flawless and Holy in order to get in Gods favor, so it's easier this way.It would've been even easier not to infect all of humanity with the sin virus and then offer a laughably complex and silly cure. Better to have simply extended the original offer to those who came afterwards, but then the Bible would only be about half a paragraph long.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
