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 Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:30 am
It's been awhile since I've revisited this post, and I haven't read all of the replies, however, I am intrigued by the poster who said that it was possible that God felt that ignorance might have been the best way to protect Adam and Eve...
and the poster above me, I certainly don't take EVERYTHING literally out of the Bible, sometimes I will interpret them literally for the sake of argument, depending on what kind of debate it is. To me, the majority, if not all, is just moral-stories like many other books that have been written.
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:15 am
its more than just moral bearing parables, it is full of symbolism. words that seem to have a mundane meaning but really have a subtle subjective meaning.
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:24 pm
Quote: It's been awhile since I've revisited this post, and I haven't read all of the replies, however, I am intrigued by the poster who said that it was possible that God felt that ignorance might have been the best way to protect Adam and Eve. Well, you know what they say, "ignorance is bliss." In which case an all knowing God would be the most depressed thing in the whole universe. Maybe he got too depressed and created humans so there would be some conscious beings that weren't all depressed. I call it the Goth God Hypothesis.
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:05 pm
I find God's existence to be highly improbable but if I were to think of him as a distinct possibility I would have to say that an omniscient god would not have placed the Tree of Knowledge in the garden of Eden if he didn't want Adam and Eve to take from it. In thinking of the Abrahamic God, I like to think of him as having a similar psychology to a human parent. When thinking of it in this way I see that God might have wanted and not wanted us to be 'ignorant'. Think of the fruit of knowledge as puberty or "growing up." Parents both want and don't want this to happen to their children. They contradict themselves in this way but most give in to the fact that their children must become men and women. Adam and Eve were but children. God wanted them to remain children but knew that they had to grow up. He told them not to eat the fruit of Knowledge but left a manifestation of his contradictory will, the serpent, to linger in the tree to later tempt Adam and Eve. Everything according to God's omniscient will. What must come to pass to reach an outcome a Supreme Being might want is set into motion but, in accordance with the bible, god made us in his image, therefore God is, at least partially, human, "Our Father." What he wishes and what must come to pass are sometimes at odds with each other but in the end the best choice is chosen. Our sin was necessary for a predetermined outcome outlined by God. So my logic goes. Naturally, this is only applicable to an existent God, and whatnot, but whatever. xp
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 12:56 pm
nightlight i haven't fully digested the posts above me, but while i work on a suitably... not retarded answer... what if in the original post, you switched the word 'ignorant' with 'innocent'. would that shed a different light on the subject? Unfortunately, this user types like a noob. But he does make sense.
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