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Hmm. When I have heard preachers refer to some time before Genesis, I always had the feeling they had retreated into a corner. The so called bible support for such a position is weak I would think.
Ever heard about the plan of Salvation? How eternal life was promised before the world began? And How the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the earth, etc? Here is a question for those that imagine a long mysterious history for earth before creation week--Why was Jesus our Messiah and savior from the very beginning planning for our salvation if we are just some after the fact Johnny come lately thing?
Actually the verse reads 'foundation of the world' or age, not the earth (Rev. 13:8). The lamb slain by God to hide the sins of Adam and Eve is that symbolic Christ/lamb. The 'age' referred to began with Adam and Eve, specifically their sin.
Well, since all the cool kids are hanging out in this thread, I have a few simple questions. Why would God, fully knowing what would happen, put a tree in the garden that Adam and Even weren't supposed to eat from? And why the serpent? It's like putting your 3 year old kids in a room full of exposed electrical wires, telling them "don't touch the wires", and then leaving the room.
Neither Adam nor Eve died when they ate the fruit, why did God lie?
Why did God create the serpent fully knowing what it would do?
Why did this "perfect creation" sinned the first chance they had? This was the only wrong thing they could do at the garden, and they did it almost immediately after creation.
Why does God act like he didn't know what Adam and Eve had done? Didn't he know that all along?
Uh-huh ... we'll just see how 'simple' they are, when you get responses.Well, since all the cool kids are hanging out in this thread, I have a few simple questions.
Where should He have put it? on Mars?Why would God, fully knowing what would happen, put a tree in the garden that Adam and Even weren't supposed to eat from?
You mean dragon?And why the serpent?
No, it's not.It's like putting your 3 year old kids in a room full of exposed electrical wires, telling them "don't touch the wires", and then leaving the room.
It's not that God lied, it's that you don't understand the tripartite nature of mankind.Neither Adam nor Eve died when they ate the fruit, why did God lie?
Why did Lee Iacocca make cars, knowing that some would die in them?Why did God create the serpent fully knowing what it would do?
You make your questions hard to answer, since you append them with ignorant verbage.Why did this "perfect creation" sinned the first chance they had?
Actually, if you think about it [for once], you would realize that, if they were going to sin, the sooner the better.This was the only wrong thing they could do at the garden, and they did it almost immediately after creation.
Oh, please.Why does God act like he didn't know what Adam and Eve had done? Didn't he know that all along?
I don't mind the question at all.You may not like the question AV, but these philosophical issues are the biggest things which keep me far away from Christianity.
I don't mind the question at all.
And as I have shown in my previous post, if this keeps you 'far away from Christianity,' then may I assume you don't drive?
As I said, Lee Iacocca made cars, knowing people would die in them.
Thanks for the forewarning.Error
You're right -- error.Anything and everything can be used by religious people to keep themselves believing, which ever way the wind blows
that's the way they go.
Well, since all the cool kids are hanging out in this thread, I have a few simple questions. Why would God, fully knowing what would happen, put a tree in the garden that Adam and Even weren't supposed to eat from? And why the serpent? It's like putting your 3 year old kids in a room full of exposed electrical wires, telling them "don't touch the wires", and then leaving the room.
Neither Adam nor Eve died when they ate the fruit, why did God lie?
Why did God create the serpent fully knowing what it would do?
Why did this "perfect creation" sinned the first chance they had? This was the only wrong thing they could do at the garden, and they did it almost immediately after creation.
Why does God act like he didn't know what Adam and Eve had done? Didn't he know that all along?
The answer to all your questions lies in what happened before Genesis One. The creation of mortal man is the beginning of the 'restitution of all things', not the beginning of the earth and universe. Restitution means to restore or repair that which was damaged or destroyed.
Consider that sin and the knowledge of evil existed prior to the creation of man. So the sin of Adam and Eve wasn't the first sin, as most suppose. God orchestrated the reinactment of the very first sin using Adam and Eve. It is the reinactment of a previous 'Paradise Lost'. It is God's plan to restore that paradise, but with different 'loved ones', that will remain ever faithful to Him. Adam and Eve had no choice in the matter, but followed the 'script' written for them by God.
And in which Bible can I find that information?
And in which Bible can I find that information?
And why is that not attached to the Bible or taught in churches?
It might be in the same one as the secret life of Jesus before His ministry?And in which Bible can I find that information?
Please, point out the verses.
Genesis 3 reveals that evil (sin) existed (thus the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) before Eve and Adam sinned. The serpent lied to Eve, thus 'bearing false witness' existed before the 'fall'. Sin came into the human age with the fall of Adam and Eve, but originated with the fall of (the one known as) Lucifer.
I don't mind the question at all.
And as I have shown in my previous post, if this keeps you 'far away from Christianity,' then may I assume you don't drive?
As I said, Lee Iacocca made cars, knowing people would die in them.
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