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The fruit was enough temptation because it looked and smelled good. And I'm stating it seems like Adam and Eve were already exercising their free will by not eating the fruit. If it's temptation enough Satan shouldn't have been needed or allowed in the garden. They had no concept of death or...

OK, so the setup as I've been taught: -Adam and Eve were recently created -fruit has been created for the express purpose of not being eaten with no details of punishment given -This is for "free will" -They decided not to eat the fruit They exercised their free will to obey God, why did God...

This is why you don't mix religious nonsense with politics. Keep religious symbols off of public property and you won't have to deal with people doing stuff like this.

It's apologetics. I didn't read anywhere about asking the victim's opinion in verses, but that's not the only issue.

That's why so much importance on virginity. Women were stoned for noth being virgins. Like I said ceremonies were for celebtation and transfer of property. Local laws made them contracts. If two people in love crashed on a deserted island, would you expect them to go without because some...

No, "marriage" as defined in the bible is when two virgins have sex and become "one flesh". The ceremony was mostly for celebration and public display that property exchange was taking place between the husband and wife's father in the old days. You don't even need a preacher. The state views...

No, the words do a pretty good job of speaking for themselves. Especially if asked to follow the law today (and not just cherry-picked parts)

No... the law is pretty awful. Deuteronomy 22:28-29 If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. Deuteronomy...

The earth only has so much space on it, but when life was created, God made everything that was living immortal and vegetarian, and the only plant life that existed being fruit bearing varieties... so with no animals (including insects) and humans dying and only told to reproduce, wouldn't the...

Every generation as sworn it was the last, sworn it knew the anti-christ, sworn it was getting the mark of the beast, sworn it was the end times and every time they were wrong. Stop worrying. If you really think it'll happen, you know there's nothing that can stop it and there's nothing you can...

Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours John 14:12-14 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father...

So God won't let us leave earth and will kill people or sabotage every effort at interstellar exploration and settlement just so everyone is present when he decides to raise and kill everyone for the last time before destroying the planet. Is that it? If all this assumption makes God sound like...

Any problems christians have is what we bring upon ourselves. Have you taken a look at Africa lately? Ever since missionaries were in a rush to convert instead of educate, they've let loose a fundamentalism monster. Kenyans are burning witches right now, and the evangelicals managed to get...

Christians as a whole haven't agreed on anything. Even before the bible was put together gnostic sects were slaughtering each other over who had the right books. Why do you think there's so many denominations to begin with? The only time there was one church is when it was held together by fear...

The Catholics co-opted pagan holidays to convert them. There's nothing holy about any christian holidays. It was all politics. Believe it or not, the only thing Christian in origin about christmas is Santa Claus, based on a real man who threw bags of gold into poor womens' windows so they could...

If I were to be honest... I didn't ask to be born, I didn't have anything to do with the "one slip-up dooms a whole species" rule that required God to sacrifice himself to himself to create a loophole in that rule, I didn't ask for an emotionally crippling childhood, I didn't ask for cancer, and...

Well there is... Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours John 14:12-14 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to...

If only certain families were taken, then would gave made certain species go extinct, and we'd see the species change as they moved outward from the arc. However, a few thousand years is not enough time to allow for all those species to develop and return to their ecosystem of origin. Your post...

If it's not ment to be a moral story, you guys still aren't mentioning the earth's races, who were distributed much beyond egypt and Isreal at that time. And collecting millions of species onto a 400 foot long boat.

From personal experience I can tell you repression and self-loathing will only harm you in the long run. You might shove those feelings down there so deep you'll say you're straight, and convince yourself by getting married, but you can end up addicted to alcohol or drugs, feel depressed, maybe...