And God very specifically ruled on that. Sins of the father, and all
that. So why is the Catholic Church trying to overrule God?
>>>>I mean, if some schmuck in a garden ate some fruit he wasn't supposed
>>>>to, and that damns all of humanity to hell automatically for all
>>>>eternity
>>>
>>> Well, you see, actually it doesn't.
>>
>>Sure it does. That's what "original sin" is. Are you THAT unaware of your
>>own theology?
>
> Original sin is telling God we are his equal. You did't understand this?
OK, so, since God has already ruled conclusively on the "sins of the father"
thing, why not do what he says?
You're making a lot of noise, but still not providing a rationalization.
>>> Firstly, fruit was just a prop. The sin was man's natural propensity to put
>>> self first above all else.
>
>>Which, of course, God knowingly put there, as he created them "after his own
>>image", and coupled with his own omnipotence, should have known WAS there.
>
> Doesn't matter who put it there. God said "do not...." and A&E said they'd
> decide and not God.
But God:
1) Gave them the propensity to say "We'll decide"
2) Should have known ahead of time what the result would be.
I'm not exactly prescient myself, but I do have a fairly good grasp of
how the world operates. If I try to perform the "plate spinning trick"
on the end of poles with my good china, and the plates fall off and
break, I can hardly be pissed off at the situation; I knew that there
was a risk that would happen when I started. God's in an even worse
situation; he supposedly MADE Adam and Eve how they were, and according
to Catholic doctrine, he can see the future. He KNEW how things
were going to turn out.
So, again, why the punishment?
>
>>If you believe the stories in the Bible, God created us broken, then commands
>>us to fix ourselves.
>>> God said "do not ....", and A&E said they would
>>> decide and not God.
>>As God supposedly knew they would.
>
> And he also knows our own final decision, but WE don't know our final decision.
> Stay alert.
I am alert; I've studied the whole thing and think it's bullshit.
>>If you set up someone for failure, and they fail, how can you hold them
>>responsible for it?
>
> Good judgment which also comes from God..
That's not an answer. It's barely a parsable sentence. Whassa matta?
Cognitive dissonance kicking in?
>>> Secondly, as the first of the human species of which we too are human, what they
>>> were is what we are. Hence is it our natural pattern as human to put ourselves
>>> first before all else also just as they did.
>
>>That is *not* what the bible says.
>
> Yes it is. Exactly. They decided it was their right to decide and not God's
> decision. That's exactly what human beings do every day and so they will pay.
> Live carefully.
Question: before they ate the fruit, which gave them the knowledge of good and
evil, it can be assumed that they didn't have the knowledge of good and evil,
right? So, how can they be held accountable for deciding to find out for
themselves? They wouldn't have known disobeying God was an evil act.
>> It's not simply a case of "so they were, so
>>we are". God very *specifically* curses them. Please don't make me quote the
>>relevant passages at you; it will make you look incredibly ignorant of your own
>>fairy tale.
>
> No, he does no such thing. He allows us our final decision, with him in heaven
> or with satan in the flames. Choose carefully.
He certainly does.
Genesis 3:17-19:
17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the
tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,'
"Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return."
You might actually want to try *reading* that book you beleive in.
>>> Thirdly, as is evident, we overcome this problem by our **elective** desire to
>>> follow God rather than ourselves.
>
>>So, answer me this question: according to your theology, what is the fate of a
>>devout Hindu who devotedly follows the tennants of Hinduism his entire life?
>
> God says his kingdom has many mansions. A hindu that doesn't know God but lives
> a live of love towards his fellow human beings will live in one of them. Unlike
> you atheists, a hindu doesn't know better.
You and I both know that's not what the RCC says on such matters.
>
>>> Fourthly, it all starts when we undergo Christian cleansing (baptism) via our
>>> parents who promise to lead us properly, and then in our own promises to do so
>>> when we then reach the age of young adult reason.
>
>>Again, I ask the above question; Hindus are not Baptized. According to your
>>theology, what is the everlasting fate of someone who does not receive the
>>Catholic Sacraments?
>
> Nor do they know of it like you do.
I don't know of it either; in all my years, God never appeared to me. And I've
never received the Catholic sacraments.
>
> In the end, it's all boils down to "love one another as I have loved you". John
> 13:34.
>
>>>>, and that's considered *just*, then there's no problem
>>>>with aborting the kid, who by extention, is not only guilty of
>>>>original sin, but also guilty of rape.
>
>>> Abortion = still haven't got the message from God.
>
>>No, it's an inconsistency in your idiotic myth. Your religion preaches that
>>offspring inherit the sins of the father, but you're unwilling to carry this
>>to it's logical conclusion.
>
> The obvious conclusion is that one receives the Christian Sacrament of Baptism
> and is thus cleansed of original sin. But like unbaptized babies that die
> without baptism, we can't answer except to profess our belief that God cares for
> the dead infants in his own way, and the hindu if they lived a lifestyle as
> called for that Christians are intimately familiar with.
His own way, of course, is Hell. According to your faith.
>
>>>>So I really don't understand why the Holy Roman Catholic Church
>>>>has got it's panties in a twist over abortion.
>
>>> It's murder of one's own unborn for one's own physical comfort and convenience.
>>> Now how disgusting and unGodly can that be.
>
>>No, it's visiting the sins of the father on the children.
>
> But in your case, it's mommie "visiting those sins" on them.
Oh, Mommie does the abortion herself?
>>You haven't addressed, IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM, the fundamental point of my
>>argument, to whit:
>
>>Why is it acceptable that the sins of the father are visited on the offspring
>>IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES, but not in this particular case? What makes this case
>>a special exception?
>
> I can't possibly explain what God hasn't made known to me. But God in the NT
> did make it clear that we are seen in accordance with our individual faiths.
>
>>> Jesus himself gave us a new command
>>> (actually somewhat of a new wording) that we love one another as he loved us.
>>> John 13:34.
>
>>He loved us in such a manner that he supposedly invested us with original sin,
>
> Any way you put it, it's still a) a natural sinfulness in all men, and b)
> extraordinarily easy to overcome in Christian baptism which, after all, a simple
> decision on our part.
>
>>automatically damning *all* of us to hell unless we actively take steps to
>>avoid it. He loves us in such a way that he clearly enunciates that the sins
>>of the father will be visited unto the children. So again, I ask, why does
>>the Holy Roman Catholic Church have a problem with abortion in the case of
>>rape?
>
> Not automatic. Becuase you have the opportunity to be baptized. It's you that
> can say no.
Oh? Newborn babies can say no? Or has the Catholic church started putting off
baptisms until the age of 18 when I wasn't looking?
>>>>The kid deserves it.
>>>>I'd love to hear some kind of rationalizaton to the contrary.
>>>>Check with your Bishop and let us all know what he says.
>>>
>>> Now you too know.
>>
>>I already know; it's you who's still fumbling in the dark.
>
> I rest my case.
You haven't made one yet. But according to quantum theory, "nothing"
does have a rest state, so technically, you're not incorrect.