(September 5, 2014 at 5:00 am)Cato Wrote:(September 4, 2014 at 7:48 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: If you notice, knowledge came through the line of Cain, they were the inventors and scientists.
Well then, at least we now have motivation for the bizarre assertion that Cain wasn't the son of Adam; hatred for human achievement. What else can explain a passion for contriving a mechanism by which science, technology, and music are to be the responsibility of the Devil? It's one thing to be gullible enough to accept the Bible as the inerrant and infallible word of God; it's an altogether special brand of lunacy that allows someone to wield the Bible as some conspiratorial weapon of mass delusion. I suppose the author of Matthew was the first of this kind.
Playing hopscotch through the Bible stringing together unrelated passages in an attempt to demonstrate some otherwise untold story or manufacture a prognostication is not Biblical scholarship; it's meaningless drivel. It's almost as if people that do this, mostly evangelicals, have concluded that the Bible wasn't sufficient. If I were a literalist believer, I think I would reconsider effectively telling God that his literary claim to fame was an inadequate pile of shit.
Where do you get "hatred" from? I'm just showing the differences between the descendants of Adam and the descendants of Cain. The descendants of Adam have always been simple people. The descendants of Cain went on to found great civilizations. The antediluvian time period was a time of great technological achievement.
On the other hand look at the followers of Jesus, the Bible says that Peter was ignorant and unlearned, John the baptist lived in the wilderness like a wild man, eating locusts and honey.
This goes to show that theology is nonsense. And to be clear, I'm not against knowledge, if you could be highly educated and believe in God, then fine. But that's usually not the case.
The two most highly educated people in the Bible were Moses and Paul, Moses being educated by the Pharaoh, and Paul by the renowned teacher Gamaliel. Moses had to spend 40 years in exile before God could use him (he was around 80 years old at the time of the exodus) and Paul stated that he had to forget everything he learned.
