RE: Why I'm Still a Christian
March 4, 2015 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2015 at 1:54 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 4, 2015 at 12:41 pm)Lek Wrote:(March 3, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Genesis 3:19 makes it pretty clear that death was given to humans for the "sin" of eating an apple.
The bible doesn't say that they ate an apple. It says that they ate of the fruit of the tree. "Fruit" has more meanings than just something that is harvested from a literal tree and consumed. Fruit can refer to the effect of something. Their sin was disobeying God.
Pretty sure you missed my point, which was that you worship a god who dooms to death all humans who ever lived in history, for the "sin" of the first two.
I just use that word "apple" because it underlines exactly how ridiculous this entire story is.
(March 4, 2015 at 1:48 pm)Lek Wrote: Do you believe that there is no good reason for anything to happen that causes suffering?
Justify Auschwitz, then. Go on. Justify the Cambodian genocide. Leukemia. Chattel slavery -- oh, wait, that's Drich's gig, sorry.
Point is, your faith prefers to justify evil rather than correct it.
