(October 22, 2014 at 7:03 pm)Lek Wrote:(October 22, 2014 at 4:50 pm)Beccs Wrote: I don't know about natural events, but viruses, etc, are supposed to be a direct consequence of our "fall".
I'm amused when it comes to "original sin" that a loving god would punish everyone for the sins of their many-generations-removed ancestors.
It would be like my great-great-great grandfather committing a murder and all of his descendants being imprisoned because of it.
We all share in the sin of Adam when we sin. If you're grandfather set off a bunch of nuclear bombs, you and everyone else would have to live with the effects of the radiation. Adam screwed up the world and now we all have to live in it.
(October 22, 2014 at 4:46 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Man caused: famine; volcanoes, earthquakes, disease, hunger, cancer, carnivorous animals. . . Really? Maybe if I eat an apple and spit it back out?
I tried it already. It didn't work.
There's a big difference between an all powerful being creating the entire universe and then placing the one thing humanity was banned from knowing smack in the middle of the garden with two curious humans and a distant relation committing war crimes.
If my great-whatever-grandfather set off nukes I wouldn't be held responsible for it.
The concept of generational punishment is absurd and cruel.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
