eThneoLgrRnae
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It's not like God flooded the world specifically to kill babies. Their deaths were just incidental. Let's say God did somehow protect them from being judged along with everyone else; would it then be any better that they die a much slower death by starving to death or dying from thirst?
Yeah, well... that "talking snake" was described as being the most cunning of all creatures in the book of Genesis. And, as I said earlier, it was easy to trick Eve not because she was dumb, but because she never actually saw God create anything with her own eyes. She only had God's word that He was, in fact, God. As you know, it doesn't take much to be a skeptic. Satan planted a seed of doubt in her mind and that was apparently all that was needed.
I've already answered that I believe Adam did what he did because he was scared of what God would do to his wife. He wasn't created with that sinful nature already being in him. He willingly chose to take on that sinful nature when he bit into the apple.
God has not condemned every single person in existence, Surtur. He has offered them an easy way out in His Son, Jesus Christ (who is sometimes referred to as "the second Adam"). It is a free gift of Salvation. All you have to do is accept it. Don't let the catholics fool you into thinking you have to do good works in order to be saved. That is a false gospel.
That is not even close to being the same thing. As Adam is the father of us all, when he willingly chose to take on the sinful nature, we all inherited it from him. Not only that, the Bible says that the entire creation (not just humans) suffers as a result of the fall of man (Adam's disobedience). You see, the good book tells us that God put Adam in charge of tending to His creation and thus, when he made the choice he did, the entire creation suffers as a result. It was a chain reaction of sorts.
Those concepts would've still existed to God, Himself, that's why. It wasn't necessary for A & E to know about good and evil in order to live a fulfilling life.
Yes, He absolutely knew what would happen before it happened. As you say, He is omniscient. Imo, I think the problem is how we, as humans, view time vs how God does. You see, to Him, time is not linear as it is to us. He is not trapped in time as we are... He created it and thus is the master of it.
Not sure. It may've been because, as I said earlier, it was part of the test of A & E. It's also possible he may not have been officially designated as a "bad guy" yet... still not quite sure whether he was still 'Lucifer' at that point or if he had become 'Satan' yet.
No doubt you'll probably reply with something like "But God is omniscient! He should've known Lucifer would turn bad at some point."
To which I would again come back to how we view and experience time vs how God does.
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Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
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