Bill M wrote:
>
> "The_Sage" <The_Sage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> In the Garden of Eden, where God placed Adam on the sixth day, God had
>> also
>> planted a very special tree there which he called "The tree of
knowledge
>> of good
>> and EVIL". Where did God get His knowledge of evil when he created the
>> tree of
>> knowledge of good and evil -- from His heart or from His head? Why
didn't
>> God
>> have Satan create the tree of knowledge of evil instead? Maybe because
>> Satan
>> couldn't create a tree evil enough for God to look down on and declare
>> "and it
>> was good"? Which is more evil: the person who does an evil deed or the
>> accomplice who teaches that person how to do evil deeds? Where is the
>> justice in
>> that?
>>
>> One day Adam broke one of God's commandments by eating of the Tree of
>> Evil Knowledge. If Adam was born without knowledge of good and evil
(and
>> therefore
>> had no knowledge of what sin was), then how could Adam be blamed for
>> doing evil
>> when he ate of the forbidden tree? Where is the justice in that?
>>
>> Adam eventually died as a result that action, but did Adam gain
anything
>> by
>> dying? If Adam died and then continued to live afterwards in heaven,
then
>> sin
>> and the resultant death was not a curse, but a blessing because dying
is
>> a way
>> to go to Heaven. If Adam continued to live afterwards in Hell, then it
>> was dishonest and unjust for God to not give Adam a fair warning ahead
of
>> time, a
>> warning that if he sinned he would not just only die, but he would
>> continue to
>> live in a terrible place where he would be tortured forever and ever.
>> Where is
>> the justice in that?
>>
>> Adam supposedly was created with a body, soul, and spirit. When Adam
>> first sinned, which of these parts of Adam was responsible for the sin?
>> If it was the
>> body then why must our souls be saved and not our bodies? If it was
soul
>> or
>> spirit then why must the body suffer? When God spoke to Adam in Gen.
>> 3:17-19,
>> was he speaking to "Adam the body" or "Adam the soul" or "Adam the
>> spirit"? If
>> you say spirit or soul then why would God mislead Adam by saying from
>> dust YOU
>> were made and to dust YOU will return? Why didn't he truthfully say
from
>> dust
>> only your body was made and to dust only your body will return?
>> Eventually there
>> would come Jesus and he was to buy back what Adam lost. This brings us
to
>> the
>> question of what exactly did Adam lose? If Adam was already in Heaven,
>> then he
>> didn't need Jesus to die for him because he would already be where he
>> would want
>> to be. If Adam was in Hell then it was too late! He was already where
he
>> deserved to be. Wouldn't God have originally wanted Adam to have not
>> sinned? If
>> you believe in foreordaination, you would have to say no, because God
had
>> preplanned for Adam's failure, therefore God wanted Adam to sin. Where
is
>> the
>> justice in that?
>>
>> The Sage
>
> The Adam and Eve and "The tree of knowledge of good and EVIL". are all
> myths and
> fable just like Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Aesop's Fables
etc.
>
> Gods are all the creations of man's imagination. They were created to
> overcome man's panic
> fear of the finalty of death and the end of their lives.
That appears to be a quite broad generalization.
Do you have any evidence to sup****t it?
> There si NO objective verifiable evidence that they exist in reality!
That would depends on the frame of reference used.
How do you tell what is real in your scheme of things?
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