Do you believe; and why?

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(05-08-2019, 08:57 PM)Lucidus Wrote: He created a scenario in which the knowledge of good and evil would be accessible, yet he made that access forbidden. If he did not want them to be exposed to, or curious about, said knowledge -- then it seems to be rather capricious to tempt them with it in the first place. 

As for our quest for knowledge motivating people to prove that God does not exist; I would propose that its more the case that the accumulation of knowledge has often eliminated God as a plausible or relevant explanation. For instance, people once thought lightning and thunder were the result of an angry super being. We now know what cause lighting and thunder, which eliminates the need to insert a god as the cause. As the knowledge of how our universe actually works continues to bottleneck, there is less and less need and opportunity for supernatural explanation.

Yes he did create the scenario and I've never suggested he didn't want them to be curious; he wanted them to be obedient. He couldn't do that without a temptation. Not only did he tempt them by putting the tree there and saying "off limits" he further tempted them by allowing the serpent to coerce them. 

As to folks learning: Folks used to say the earth was flat but the bible always referred to it as round.