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Originally posted by shaunybaby
Did god really make such a violent planet?
Originally posted by shaunybaby
and you people say satan is the evil one!
Originally posted by saint4God
God made the planet, we made it violent.
He likes evil and gave us the idea of going against God...which we gladly took. And some are still taking.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
We didn't make it violent. I wasn't on about us killing each other,
Originally posted by shaunybaby
which happens in the animal kingdom anyways.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
I was on about earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and other natural disasters...why make a 'PLANET' so violent?
Originally posted by shaunybaby
Ultimately according to you not only did god create us (people who supposedly have made the planet violent) but also satan,
Originally posted by shaunybaby
and also a planet that is also violent...so god creates people who do violent thing, creates a being/angel/turned satan who likes evil and turns people against god and creates a world which is imperfect and full of death...
Originally posted by saint4God
Yes, but we have the ability to reason. What good reason do we have for killing?
The weather seems not to discriminate among people, their beliefs, etc. Does God micro-manage the weather?
Ooh whoa, I never said satan had creative powers.
Recall that the Garden of Eden had no ill weather patterns, nor death, nor destruction. What you've described is the state of the world as is exists today, however, I believe what He created originally, was the ability to choose. The course of mankind has been the exercise of this gift.
Yes, but we have the ability to reason. What good reason do we have for killing?
Originally posted by shaunybaby
because ultimately that's all we are 'intelligent animals'. sure we might be intelligent, have the ability to reason, but we're still prone to mistakes and wrongful doing.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
why a person would murder another for no reason is beyond me.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
whether god gave us free will to choose the world to be like this, he didn't give me it, he gave adam it, and well i shouldn't be held responsible for that, thus even if god were real i wouldn't agree.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
either way god created 'hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornados' etc. he made wind which if hot meets cold in certain circumstances creates deadly tornados, wind also creates hurricanes, tectonic plates create earthquake, thus causing tsunamis...god 'chose' to create these things according to you.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
the reason i believe we have this weather and natural disasters is through billions of years of changes.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
nor did i, i said god created satan. that's your god? the god who created evil and satan? by god standards that's a pretty lame thing to do.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
so the concept of a hurricane, or hot air meeting cold air to create a tornado, tectonic plates didn't exist, magma didn't flow underneth the earth's crust to make volcanoes etc...none of this existed??
Originally posted by shaunybaby
god just made all of this after adam and eve's sin? yeah, that doesn't sound stupid.
Originally posted by saint4God
We make 'justifications' for those actions, but as you said before we're prone to mistakes and wrongful doing, which is why we cannot save ourselves.
Each of us are an Adam and Eve in the sense that being put in the same position, we'd make the same decision. As you said, we're prone to wrongful doing.
If you're saying you'd not make that decision, my first question would be why you don't believe in God at the moment? One would have to believe in God before listening and obeying his instruction to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, I'd think.
God apparently created angels with also a will. This is apparent not only with Satan but also with many other angels in the early Old Testament. It wasn't a pointless move. After mankind did his/her move, there had to be some form of justice set up it seems for these wrongful doings. Else, it seems there would be no way for mankind to distinguish the difference.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
do you think this 'not being able to save ourselves' could be somehow relate to the creation of a higher power. hence, we create this super being that we say created us, and thus we are saved...it would be nice if we were to be saved, but i don't believe this to be the case.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
as god gave us free will, is he not then partly responsible for the downfall of adam and eve. surely that was inevitable if he created a species that was likely to do wrong and prone to making mistakes?
Originally posted by shaunybaby
firstly if a talking snake approached me, i'd be more worried about my mental health than whether or not to eat a piece of fruit.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
also we wouldn't have the knowledge of good and evil, so adam & eve didn't know wrong(evil) from right(good), thus did god actually want them to disobey him?
Originally posted by shaunybaby
'why don't i believe in god' could take up many pages of answers, but in short, it's just not 'real' to me.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
the fact that 'death' was introduced to humans after adam and eve's sin, and pain during labour for women, was that not punishment enough?
Originally posted by shaunybaby
the idea of heaven and hell is to let people today make a choice between good and evil, yet it doesn't literally mean there is a heaven and hell. it's just that we have that same choice adam and eve had to be good or evil.
Originally posted by saint4God
Originally posted by shaunybaby
firstly if a talking snake approached me, i'd be more worried about my mental health than whether or not to eat a piece of fruit.
Me too, but only because we have stronger frames of reference to know that's not normal.
Originally posted by saint4God
Originally posted by shaunybaby
also we wouldn't have the knowledge of good and evil, so adam & eve didn't know wrong(evil) from right(good), thus did god actually want them to disobey him?
I'd say He gave them the option and hoped they would not.
Originally posted by I_AM_that_I_AM
Actually, many "origin" stories/myths(no offfense) have talking animals in them. And no one seems to think there odd.
Originally posted by I_AM_that_I_AM
Originally posted by saint4God
Originally posted by shaunybaby
also we wouldn't have the knowledge of good and evil, so adam & eve didn't know wrong(evil) from right(good), thus did god actually want them to disobey him?
I'd say He gave them the option and hoped they would not.
Really?
Read Genesis 3:22, the Serpent told the truth.
Originally posted by saint4God
Originally posted by I_AM_that_I_AM
Actually, many "origin" stories/myths(no offfense) have talking animals in them. And no one seems to think there odd.
If Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, where you do you think the myths of talking animals came from?
Originally posted by spamandham
You're kidding right? Are you actually trying to claim that Adam and Eve wrote Genesis?
Originally posted by shaunybaby
the fact is that when we are young we believe these stories. the only difference is when we grow up we know santa, the tooth fairy, and trolls don't exist. however, in the case of this talking serpent, adam and eve, noah's ark, when children are told these stories at a young age...for some reason they carry on believing them right through adulthood. does this not strike anyone as strange?
Originally posted by spamandham
For some reason, believing fantastic stories on scant or nonexistent evidence becomes acceptable as long as you use the word "faith". I don't know why those of me/us without faith tend to just shake our heads and bite our tongues toward that which is no more plausible than Santa, especially considering that we are called fools, lovers of sin, hellbound, etc. by these same individuals who demand that we treat their childish and silly brain washed delusions as if they were not a form of insanity for which meds and treatment are appropriate.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
the fact is that when we are young we believe these stories. the only difference is when we grow up we know santa, the tooth fairy, and trolls don't exist. however, in the case of this talking serpent, adam and eve, noah's ark, when children are told these stories at a young age...for some reason they carry on believing them right through adulthood. does this not strike anyone as strange?
Originally posted by spamandham
by these same individuals who demand that we treat their childish and silly brain washed delusions as if they were not a form of insanity for which meds and treatment are appropriate.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
even thought adults know that santa doesn't exist, it doesn't stop them from creating the illusion that he does, by writing on presents saying 'from santa'.
Originally posted by shaunybaby
so yeah, it would be nice if a christian would tell me why they believe one thing and not another,
Originally posted by shaunybaby
even though they are the same, as they are both 'myths and/or legends'.