why would God not want adam and eve to have knowledge?
was God scared that knowledge would give adam and eve power to threaten him? is God an overprotective parent?
I don't know.
in fact, i have a hard time believing that a just and fair God would desire his creations to not have knowledge.
or is that what he does want?
the devil has knowledge, and the devil is certainly unwanted by God.
adam and eve ate from the tree of knowledge, so He punished them.
i don't understand why God wouldn't want his creations not to have knowledge. if it is to maintain control over us, and prevent us from threatening His power, then He is a God who doesn't believe in justice. Or, at least, He believes in justice on his own terms.
is it because adam and eve disobeyed him? is that the problem?
adam and eve disobeyed God....but God created adam and eve. So he must have instilled some sort of rebellious characteristic in adam and eve that would lead them to eat from the tree.
why would God do that?
should i trust His plan?
that's ridiculous. i believe in God, but not the god that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam create.
i believe in a God of objective justice. the words "objective justice" mean only that every atom had the same chance at anything as any other atom.
with this in mind, the big bang could make sense, i guess. every atom would be contained in the same spot, so would have had just as much chance as every other atom to do anything else.
but does this imply that God is no longer relevant?
i guess so.
well, "i guess so" is the easy way out. i can't understand any other argument to imply that God is not done with existence.
Thank God we're alive.
life is a nice thing, albeit basically meaningless.
"nice", in this context, means simply "pleasurable," where pleasure can be intellectual or sensual.
i've always sensed a great debate between sensual and intellectual pleasures, but that is a different story for a different time.
what i understand of the bible doesn't make sense. the bases of my previous statements come from christians who consider themselves learned enough to pass on what they have learned.
why do humans have such a hard time accepting the idea of nothing?
one last thing:
jesus was born to pay for our sins because God loves us and knows that we can't pay for our sins ourselves. why is it not possible to accept the fact that we can't pay for our sins ourselves, and simply deal with the consequences? would that not be more honorable than accepting God's pity? why can't we respect ourselves?
