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What is it to be human?

What is it to be human?

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Because your interpretation is arbitrary.

All the other trees are literal fruit bearing trees. So why should the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil be any different?

There's no indication in the text that they are anything other than literal trees. What's more, there is no text of scripture that indicates a metaphorical link between Jesus and the tree of life.

You have no proof texts to base that interpretation on. It's merely your misguided opinion.

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@fmf said
You haven't said anything to contradict or counter the content of my post.
I did, but like most things you don't see anything that doesn't fit into your world view, regardless of how often it is told to you.

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@fmf said
Is what Grampy Bobby believed the same as what you believe?
Do you ever tire of your obsession of asking someone about someone else' beliefs or statements?

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@kellyjay said
I did, but like most things you don't see anything that doesn't fit into your world view, regardless of how often it is told to you.
You trotted out your Christian beliefs again. The only message you have for atheists is that we are going to be tortured for not sharing your beliefs. If we shared your beliefs maybe we wouldn't get tortured. Merely trotting out your Christian beliefs again and again and again isn't changing the simple straightforward message that you have for atheists.

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@kellyjay said
Do you ever tire of your obsession of asking someone about someone else' beliefs or statements?
Do you agree with Grampy Bobby's Christian ideas about the difference between being "human" and "fully human"?

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@fmf said
Do you agree with Grampy Bobby's Christian ideas about the difference between being "human" and "fully human"?
Your funny!

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@philokalia said
It is interesting how he ascribes will and agency to the cosmos.

I was always under the impression that he was a hard materialist.

Would he admit he was just waxing poetic in this statement?
We are part of the Cosmos; if we have will and agency, so does it.

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@kellyjay said
That tree was our down fall, God knows about the knowledge of good and evil, man didn't until they ate of it. Now we are experiencing good and evil, and the evil experiences are by both the things we see, and the things we do. Now we spend a lot of time trying to call this good or that, and we act as if we are the absolute in this realm of deciding what is and isn't good tod ...[text shortened]... ustify what we do and say in our own eyes, no matter what it is we think we are calling good or bad.
But could we really help but eat from such a tree? I don't see how.

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What is it to be human ?

Jesus Christ is what God meant by normal human being.

The point is that we have all fallen so far below the normal level of what God meant by men and women. - to be people thoroughly united with God.

Many of you don't get it yet, do you ?

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@bigdoggproblem said
But could we really help but eat from such a tree? I don't see how.
Don't you resist urges today you know are bad and evil? I'd be willing to bet you do, and are a better person for it. Having an urge doesn't mean it has to be followed, being tempted doesn't mean we have to yield.

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