by AGuest 71 Replies latest watchtower bible
The sh*t's gettin' deep in here!
Why did God put the "tree of knowledge" there in the first place if he didn't want them to eat from it? He creates humans with free will and brains that they only use about 10% of, says "don't eat from that tree over there, it's the tree of knowledge", and also puts a "tree of life" in the same area.
Either he didn't think things through very well or he was anticipating a C-F from the get-go.
Or the whole story is fiction.
Mike.
I'm still think about the titty twister and rubbing my chest....
Well my nipples are none functional, does that mean I don't have any? Maybe a decoration? Now how in the world (that explains it) did this get in this thread anyways????[ponder ponder].
Getting to the subject at hand
Deuteronomy 30:15-18
Look, today I am offering you life and prosperity, death and disaster. 16 If you obey the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am laying down for you today, if you love Yahweh your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws and his customs, you will live and grow numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the country which you are about to enter and make your own. 17 But if your heart turns away, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods and serving them, 18 I tell you today, you will most certainly perish; you will not live for long in the country which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and posses.
Why did God put the "tree of knowledge" there in the first place if he didn't want them to eat from it?
Good question! I wondered that myself - I've never heard a response that really made sense to me.
Why did God put the "tree of knowledge" there in the first place if he didn't want them to eat from it?
So that they had a choice. Remember they didn't have to eat from the tree of Death.
Why did God put the "tree of knowledge" there in the first place if he didn't want them to eat from it?
God is a big jokester. Seeing as how he is all knowing. He knew that if he didn't give A&E an avenue to sin, he wouldn't have any fun. So, he placed the tree there, knowing exactly what they'd do before they even knew. And he said: Let the game's begin!
Oh, and BTW, Adam was given the comman to "be fruitful and multiply" BEFORE he ate, which would suggest he knew HOW. Now, why he DELAYED... is unknown to me. Perhaps he had some... ummmm... "animal" tendencies we aren't aware of. For my Father DID say, "It is NOT good... for man to continue by himself." Gives reason for thought...
Ok., Shelby.... Adam was into beastiality now and your lord is the hymen who is also the spirit who is also the semen. I think I have your teachings straight now.
No no no, you're all not thinking like God.
See, if Adam had made it to the tree and eaten, then his sins would have been forgiven right? Presumably by the tree. But you see, God couldn't have that. He'd said Adam was going to die, and He can't change his mind even though He's God and can give the universe's biggest titty twist to anyone who objects.
So instead, it was much better for there to be thousands of years of death, war, rapine and butchery so that man really really got to think about how much of a screw up the whole eating-the-tasty-looking-fruit-that-just-happens-to-be-growing-around thing was. Then of course, it's a snip for God to send his own Son to Earth to wander around the desert like a looney for three years and then get nailed to a tree. This obviously means that God just might decide to forgive someone and not be accused of changing His mind.
Course, you need another few thousand years of war, rapine etc etc for everyone to figure that out. Then along comes God's Son, who's obviously pretty pissed with having hands that disqualify him from games of hide and seek, and he kills just about everyone because God has decided that He really can't be arsed to forgive them after all.
It all makes perfect sense when you think like God.
Expatbrit
Of course, Adam couldn't eat Tree-of-Life, or he would have turned in to a Pak Protector and wreaked havoc on our world.
Oops. Wrong Book.
Forget I typed anything.
Christ, however, died. How can that be? If he was "without sin"... how could he have died? HE... didn't. His FLESH... did. His flesh that held sin IN it... our sins. Christ died... or "fell asleep" (which he didn't really do, either, as rather than "sleeping" or "resting", he went an preached to spirits in Hades)... because of OUR sins... not his... which sins... he carried... or bore... in his FLESH.
Why would he go and preach to someone who is doomed already? Was he hoping to convert some wicked spirits? WDid some of those spirits listen? If they didn't....did he go there to condemn them some more.....to you know......rub it in a bit? Besides....I thought he told the evildoer next to him when he died they were going to paradise together? He did say that didn't he? Did he drop him off first in paradise......THEN go to hades? Do you call hades paradise? Why would he take the evildoer to paradise in hades?
This isn't for just you Shelby.....this is for anyone to see the stupidity of the entire story.
The evildoer gets to go to heaven and adam can't eat of a tree but has to die instead. I guess adam knew better than the evildoer. I'll bet the evildoer knew of consequences more than Adam did.......don't you?
Gumby.........(the thorn in the side)
