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An open mind is a good thing....it means not making assumptions about what others believe until you check. I ditched Christendom decades ago.....it was the best thing I have ever done.
No, life wasn't bland for them. They knew God face to face. Life is bland for you.
Well, knowing god face to face wasn't enough for them to follow his will I guess.
Nope, it wasn't. But they could have chosen otherwise, they chose not to. That doesn't keep God away from humanity though. After all, God is present everywhere. I think that most Christians might be wrong about hell, it doesn't make sense for King David to say that God is in Sheol if hell is separation from God. Were you ever a Christian?
Well, the Bible says that the punishment for the Devil and his angels is forever. I believe is says that in Revelation. So maybe it's just that the Devil's punishment is eternal and human beings suffer temporarily. I don't know.
Everything has to refer back to exactly what Scripture says.
I am writing a book about the "Council of El", as it were. I hope to finish it by the end of the year.
But it can't be, because that's like comparing a fruit fly with a great white shark.
If He were truly secure, he wouldn't kowtow to a stupid bet. He would've told Satan to go to hell, so to speak. That He even entertained this is nonsense and cruel.
There is no such thing as free will. There is such a thing as will, but it costs plenty. "In God's image" is a vague phrase. Jesus died for nothing because he still has to come back to clean up what should've been cleaned up the first time, right? Nothing is more depressing than realizing you have to accomplish something.
The manufacturers of self-driving cars will still be held responsible when it crashes. The car chose badly. Still the manufacturer's fault for not putting in better AI.
Exactly, kind of like the current administration. Our country got spoiled and we have to be reminded what evil looks like.
Prove that Adam could internalize rationally any command.
Being a role model would make the point better than "do as I say, not as I do".
It is often said that God's ways are not our ways and are mysterious, so, no, He doesn't want us to get it all and then blame us for our ignorance.
What difference does it make if the location is eternal? Only the time you spend there matters.
He had a brain.
There's a hole in that illustration. Adam wasn't a sinner before the fruit. Therefore there was no pull toward sin like there is now with people.
Except the principle that you shouldn't torture a person just to prove a point. What's wrong with you?
So what? I don't see any evidence he was intelligent enough to write an ethics thesis or anything.
God doesn't know what His creations are capable of? He wrote their DNA, after all. Adam could not sin as, again, that kind of rational ability necessitated eating the fruit. However, he could be impulsive and thoughtless like a child.
Do we normally kill bratty kids? I mean, I know the bible demands it, but breaking the neck of a kindergartner for putting paint on the classmate's hair is a bit mean, don't you think?
Even Children understand that they should obey their superiors, ma'am.
I've answered above adequately I think.
