treeplanter
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Yes, we have already been over this - there is nothing remotely immoral in the infliction of needed/needful harm
The problem is that God consciously and purposefully inflicts NEEDLESS harm
A bizarre definition of morality from the guy who loves to tell us he's more moral than the God whom he supposedly doesn't believe exists
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The problem is that God consciously and purposefully inflicts NEEDLESS harm
4thrite
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Starvation and rape are aspects of a godless world. They are proof positive that the godless world is a violent world of degredation that has no right to exist. But one cannot say that the godless world has no right to exist until it reveals its true nature.
Scripturally speaking this godless world is going to be allowed to exist until it reveals its true nature. Jesus gave us a clue as to what that means at Matthew 24:22 wherein he speaks of a time to come when "no flesh will be saved" except that the "days will be cut short".
What does that mean? It means that this godless world will bring us to the brink of total annilahation but that the days will be cut short before that happens. Two questions: who brings us to the brink of destruction and who cuts short the days?
The godless world of starvation and rape is the world that determines to destroy us all; the God who created us is the One who saves us from them.
He will allow this godless world of starvation and rape to exist up to the point where all life is imperilled and then he will step in and bring it to an end. And no one will be able to argue with it. And all of the victims of the world that he allowed to exist will be healed of all that they have experienced.
john
4thrite
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And again, that is not what scripture says. It says that God has allowed us to be subjected to pain and suffering so that we will be set free from corruption.
john
4thrite
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The serpent said to Eve: you can be like God in knowing good and bad. If Eve had never heard of good or bad up until this point then we might expect Eve to ask of the serpent, what do you mean by good and bad?
I think that his use of the terms good and bad in his argument with Eve means that they weren't unknown to her.
john
treeplanter
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Having heard words like "good" and "bad" is not the same thing as knowing what they mean
Gloopfartskin
There, you have now seen/heard the word 'gloopfartskin'
So tell me what it means...
treeplanter
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There is plenty of scripture detailing God consciously and purposefully inflicting needless pain and suffering upon us
For example, in Deuteronomy 13:6-10 God commands His followers to kill anyone
{even one's own child}
if he/she suggests following another god
4thrite
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You use an unknown word in order to make your point. It is the unknowness of the word that makes your point.
The serpent used the words good and bad to make his point. His point being: eat from the tree and know good and bad just like God does. I will give you that neither Adam nor Eve knew what it was to know good and bad as God did. But they must have had some knowledge of good and bad for it to be an argument. Or else it would have just been so much gloopfartskin to them.
john
4thrite
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The purpose of capital punishment is to remove sources of needless pain and suffering.
john
treeplanter
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I used a word unknown to you
Just like the serpent used words unknown to Adam and Eve
It's not knowledge of good and evil that A&E pursued, so much as it is the idea, in and of itself, of being like God
Alas, there was no way for them to know that 'being like God' was 'evil' because they had zero concept of good and evil
treeplanter
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Belief in other gods is not a crime - much less a capital offense
4thrite
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You don't know that.
They didn't pursue anything. The idea of eating was presented to Eve by a third party who presented eating as a way to be like God in knowing good and bad. You want to abbreviate it to "being like God" but the full statement was; being like God in knowing good and bad. What would "being like God" mean to them? The statement is: being like God in knowing good and bad. It all meant something to Eve.
That is not even relevant. They knew they weren't God and they knew that they ought not to eat of the tree.
john
4thrite
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treeplanter
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Sure, I do
Christianity teaches that Adam and Eve had no concept of good and evil until having eaten of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Sure, they did
Christianity teaches that Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit precisely because they desired to be like gods, themselves
Is not pride the root of all sin?
The same thing it means to me - it means knowing what I do not currently know
Sure, they knew who they were and they knew the meaning of the word 'no'
What they did not know, however, is that it is 'evil' to disobey God
{nor could they have known that it is 'good' to obey God}
treeplanter
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And that was morally wrong
4thrite
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It teaches us that they were sinless up until the time they sinned. But even sinless people can grasp the concepts of good and evil.
No it does not, it teaches us that Eve ate because she was deceived.
After eating Adam and Eve came to know what they did not know prior to eating: that they were naked and they felt afraid because they were naked.
They knew that the God who had created them and everything that they had said of one tree: do not touch.
john
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Eightcrackers
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No - Adam and Eve could not have grasped the concept of good and evil if, in the Garden, there was a Tree of said knowledge.
It's like an unstoppable force and an immovable object: you can't have both.
It's knowledge, or the Tree.
treeplanter
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This seems an overly simplistic exegesis...
treeplanter
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To the contrary, it was immoral ESPECIALLY if there is a 'true' God
Lighthearted Atheist
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Posting here. Asking God aloud to reveal himself to me. Going to Christian church. Asking you to pray for me.
If God does not see then then I really question the whole omniscience thing.
This is a repeated straw man and lie.