06-12-2015, 08:50 PM
(06-12-2015, 07:32 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: At what point does/has God stepped in and physically stopped people, Christian or non, from doing wrong? Free will. Reap what you sow. etc etc.The Great Flood. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The sacrifice of Isaac. Just off the top of my head.
Quote:Giving guidelines for something that man chose to do isn't culpability. There are cut and dried, black and white "don'ts" that are ignored daily by believers and non alike. Is God culpable because someone chose to do wrong when they were explicitly told not to?God condoned slavery which means he accepted slavery. At the very least he is culpable. God commanded, "Thou shalt not kill." He didn't issue a series of rules regarding the who, what, where, when, why, and how rules for murder like he did for slavery. God didn't condone murder so He commanded don't do it.
Quote:Everyone loves to blame God for all the ills in the world when no one is forced, by Him, to do anything.He forced Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden for eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. You can't know the difference between right and wrong if you don't know the difference between good and evil. You can't understand disobeying God is wrong if you don't know what right and wrong are. God expelled Adam and Eve from Eden and he cursed the ground. The fall of man is due to original sin. Original sin is why all men are sinners and the world is full of sin. To summarize, all the ills of the world are because God is punishing all of humanity for Adam and Eve's original sin even though they couldn't yet understand right from wrong when they ate the forbidden fruit and God knew it would happen before He created Adam and Eve.
99.98% of religious denouncement is borne of laziness and ignorance.
