The Original Sin
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So that sounds as if the God and Satan of the Bible quibble like third-graders. How could we ever trust a God that would use us as pawns to take on a dare of Satan?
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Tried to give a long winded explanation, but that just isn't going to work. Had to remove them all. Bottom line: God did not cause us be born sinful. Adam and Eve, although physically perfect & immortal, made that choice on their own and doomed their offspring. To not have given them that choice would have been to create them as robots. We don't have the "choice" to be "perfect" now, but we do have to choice to worship God in truth. What choice are YOU making?
limiwa84 2 years ago
If God created humans in such a way that we would inherit sin from our parents (going all the way back to Adam), then how could you possibly say that God didn't cause us to be born sinful?
Is God not all-powerful? Did he have no choice in how He made us? Did he not decide that if Adam sinned, his descendants would inherit sinfulness? Was that a design flaw of which he wasn't aware until it was all over?
Then can't it be said that he forces us to sin?
nathanaelstacy1 2 years ago
Absolutely! My very thoughts exactly! How therefore does this reflect the actions of a loving God? And why put the tree of "Good and Evil" there in the first place? Especially if at that time, there was no such thing as "Evil" yet in the creation of man? A needless temptation, me thinks and a sense of God taunting and playing with his creation to see what they would do. Why should we pay for what our parents chose to do?
summersun2828 2 years ago
The Original Sin was one of the things that ultimately made it impossible for me to continue believing in the Bible. The creation account as a whole is so fraught with problems it's wild, but the whole 'God made humans perfect, yet 100% sinned when He purposely tempted them, and then he made them and their children die, but didn't want them to do, so needed to pay himself back a ransom...' just seems too far out. Thanks.
nathanaelstacy1 2 years ago