Originally posted by chaney3It's all a matter of perspective, I think the main reason God gave us a free will was for love, because without a free will we wouldn't be able to love.
The point of Darwin's quote is that we humans cannot comprehend God. He was not an atheist, and he had a point.
I question anyone who claims to know God through the Bible, because the Bible is littered with contradiction.
The primary contradiction is that God cares about humans, because the evidence shows otherwise.
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkThis does not have anything to do with God's glaring avoidance of human affairs.
It's all a matter of perspective, I think the main reason God gave us a free will was for love, because without a free will we wouldn't be able to love.
Adam ate the apple, so God sits back and watches mans depravity unfold.
The narrative no longer makes any sense!
Originally posted by chaney3Well if God didn't care about human affairs why did he provide a solution to the mess that man had made?
This does not have anything to do with God's glaring avoidance of human affairs.
Adam ate the apple, so God sits back and watches mans depravity unfold.
The narrative no longer makes any sense!
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkThe story does NOT make sense.
Well if God didn't care about human affairs why did he provide a solution to the mess that man had made?
I believe that God created us, as Darwin did, but thinking we can understand anything beyond that is futile.
The Adam and Eve story of original sin is a joke. And that we humans deserve to be punished because of it, is a joke.
Our God would be a child if the story were true.
Originally posted by chaney3How would you balance a loving a loving God with all the pain and suffering in this world. Really, how would you do it?
There is no way to balance a loving God with all of the pain and suffering in this life.
Blaming everything on Adam and Eve eating an apple is weak, and has removed God from everything.
Originally posted by leunammiIn the human mind, God is indifferent. He doesn't care.
How would you balance a loving a loving God with all the pain and suffering in this world. Really, how would you do it?
This may be false, but we won't know until we meet Him.
Unless, you tell me otherwise, as Bible thumpers do, that you know something, which is absurd.
Nobody knows God. Nobody!!!
Originally posted by chaney3Do you think anyone would have acted differently if you were in the same position as Adam and Eve?
The story does NOT make sense.
I believe that God created us, as Darwin did, but thinking we can understand anything beyond that is futile.
The Adam and Eve story of original sin is a joke. And that we humans deserve to be punished because of it, is a joke.
Our God would be a child if the story were true.
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkAdam and Eve is an excuse to blame mankind for everything. To remove God from liability.
Do you think anyone would have acted differently if you were in the same position as Adam and Eve?
It is weak, and false.
God is not present today, and we don't know why.
Originally posted by twhiteheadYou and I have agreed so rarely in this forum that it approaches the limit of zero, but I agree with this.
You are making two contradictory claims:
1. That you are capable of understanding enough to rule out the possibility that some people understand God.
2. That God is not understandable.
The reality is that you need significant understanding of something before you can declare that it is not understandable to anyone.