(October 24, 2011 at 6:58 am)lucent Wrote:(October 23, 2011 at 3:35 pm)IATIA Wrote: Why did god create the 'talking snake'? Did he not know what would happen?
How did the 'talking snake' get into the garden? Was god not watching?
This god must have known the 'talking snake' was more powerful than Eve and that Eve had no chance. So this must have been a setup from the get go.
God didn't create evil. If you check the bible, there is only one place that God is creating anything, which is at the beginning of Genesis. When God finished creation, it was "very good".
What he did create were creatures capable of choosing good or evil. I think this video explains the concept pretty well:
The talking snake was Satan, and yes God knew he was in the garden. God had allowed Satan to test Adam and Eve to see if they would keep His command. To say Eve had no chance isn't true. She knew what she was doing was wrong but she did it anyway. Because of that, death entered the world through their sin and the creation fell.
The world started out perfect and became corrupted because of sin. Because of sin, the world is fallen and human nature is corrupted. God has been, at every step, working to restore and reconcile creation back to Himself, which culminated when Jesus broke the powers of sin and death at calvary.
Why even predispose them to this temptation? You know how I know that's some bullshit, lucent?
Because I love my children, so I wouldn't sit a loaded gun on the coffee table, tell them not to play with it, and then go stand in the kitchen and peek in on them to see if they are going to be obedient or not. That's fucked up, and if you don't think it's fucked up, you're fucked up.
It's not love if your love for them, and desire for their well-being is contingent upon their submission to your will. You create beings capable of free will, and then punish them when their will doesn't please you? God is a dumbass!
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