Well, since all the cool kids are hanging out in this thread, I have a few simple questions.
Uh-huh ... we'll just see how 'simple' they are, when you get responses.
Why would God, fully knowing what would happen, put a tree in the garden that Adam and Even weren't supposed to eat from?
Where should He have put it? on Mars?
That tree was there on the earth for a reason.
Probably as the place where angels came to congregate for whatever reason; and served as refreshment for them.
Thus Adam & Eve were not allowed to eat of it, as it contained fruit for the angels.
You mean dragon?
And why not the dragon?
Would you have preferred a horse or cow or something else, for Heaven knows why?
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.
No, it's not.
Your comparison shows a severe lack in understanding who was involved.
Try, instead of 3 year old siblings, a fully-mature (remember Embedded Age? maturity without history?) man and his wife.
Neither Adam nor Eve died when they ate the fruit, why did God lie?
It's not that God lied, it's that you don't understand the tripartite nature of mankind.
Why did God create the serpent fully knowing what it would do?
Why did Lee Iacocca make cars, knowing that some would die in them?
Why did this "perfect creation" sinned the first chance they had?
You make your questions hard to answer, since you append them with ignorant verbage.
Who said they 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.
Actually, if you think about it [for once], you would realize that, if they were going to sin, the sooner the better.
Had Eve had children before she sinned, then the earth would be in a mess, as there would have been a line of progeny born without the sin nature, and a line born with the sin nature.
But I expect ridicule is coming, so I won't bother to elucidate.
Why does God act like he didn't know what Adam and Eve had done? Didn't he know that all along?
Oh, please.
All you're doing here is using the question mark to ridicule, and it's sickening.
You're the one acting like these are innocent questions, but they're anything but...
--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?
