RE: Why was Adam exempt from the transgression when the transgression was disobedience?
September 24, 2014 at 11:16 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2014 at 11:21 am by Greatest I am.)
(September 24, 2014 at 2:53 am)ronedee Wrote:(September 17, 2014 at 10:19 am)Greatest I am Wrote: There is no way to answer for one who believes in real talking serpents. Those people are not quite sane.
Regards
DL
Obviously the story is a metaphor....
To painfully put it in a nutshell... The nature of man is to be godlike. Unfortunately, we went about it the wrong way; through disobedience.
And the snake? The first experiment in [free will] that went totally wrong.... for the snake that is! But there needs to be a fall guy for a happy ending. And he'll have plenty of company someday.
Are you saying A & E should have followed the command that basically says, stay stupid forever?
Should they have wallowed in ignorant bliss even too stupid to realize they were naked?
No adding to scriptures now.
Regards
DL
(September 24, 2014 at 8:06 am)Brakeman Wrote:(September 24, 2014 at 2:53 am)ronedee Wrote: But there needs to be a fall guy for a happy ending. And he'll have plenty of company someday.
Kinda like there has to be a little bulled kid for the class to have a good laugh.
There is no basis for that assertion. The ideal best ending is when everyone wins.
Imagine the garden of Eden story where Eve shows love and compassion to the snake and convinces him and or Satan that their conflict with god was just an misunderstanding. Then God, Satan, and Adam and Eve all forgive and forget and live happily ever after. The End.
But god, being the little shit he is, wasn't powerful or knowing enough to mend the fences with Satan, and because of his social issues we get caught up in the middle of it.
You make a good point on all getting out of Eden as winners and not the losers that Christianity has made of both us and a prick of a God.
The Jews had written and interpreted the fall as their elevation before Christianity reversed the moral and intent of the story.
Have a look at how they saw it as our elevation.
"Instead of the Fall of man (in the sense of humanity as a whole), Judaism preaches the Rise of man: and instead of Original Sin, it stresses Original Virtue "
http://www.mrrena.com/misc/judaism2.php
Regards
DL
