(April 26, 2010 at 4:38 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: That is what I have been told by too many Christians to count for too many years to mention. Not all, of course, but yes... I have been told again and again that the 'apple' represented 'sex' and that once Adam and Eve... 'ate the apple'... that was the original sin. We are all born of 'original sin'. Hence a lifetime of atonement.
Paul you should not take the words of a christisan as the truth without researching their statements first. Many christians repeat what they've heard from parents and others because they believe that as figures of authority they can't be wrong. I question things my pastor preaches and we'll discuss and study the question. I always go back and study what nonbelievers say about scripture.
Read Genesis 1:27-31 God instructs them to populate the earth before the fall.
Genesis 2:8-17 God tells Adam not to eat from the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" before He created Eve.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
