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I could not vote for either of the 2 choices.
I think we are born with a connection to God, natural, like breathing even, so natural. We don't have any abstractions, ideas, thoughts about it, except perhaps a kind of without-words feeling(?) akin to 'you are with me' or 'you are'.
The world impinges on us, often rather intensely.
And more, role models above us, in the world, they show us stuff of mixed character.
We take it in.
But just like Adam and Eve, we would each and all fall, in time, eventually, thinking to 'become just like God', to replace Him. That path leads downhill. Of course, a wonderful thing is that He gave us a spirit that is able to suddenly turn and change direction.
I don't mind if someone needs it put into theological language instead, and wants it to be 'original sin' that we are stained by. Ok. That's the same meaning, in different wording, to me, as best I can understand. We are like Adam and Eve, susceptible. This stuff works on us -->"Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
I think we are born with a connection to God, natural, like breathing even, so natural. We don't have any abstractions, ideas, thoughts about it, except perhaps a kind of without-words feeling(?) akin to 'you are with me' or 'you are'.
The world impinges on us, often rather intensely.
And more, role models above us, in the world, they show us stuff of mixed character.
We take it in.
But just like Adam and Eve, we would each and all fall, in time, eventually, thinking to 'become just like God', to replace Him. That path leads downhill. Of course, a wonderful thing is that He gave us a spirit that is able to suddenly turn and change direction.
I don't mind if someone needs it put into theological language instead, and wants it to be 'original sin' that we are stained by. Ok. That's the same meaning, in different wording, to me, as best I can understand. We are like Adam and Eve, susceptible. This stuff works on us -->"Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
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