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Mostly in all mythologies, animals would come and 'talk' to
humans in understandable human language. Such a case happens in Bible too! In
Genesis, a serpent comes and talks to Eve. I don’t know in what language! Who or
what is this serpent? Is it any allegory, a serpent representing the devil? But whatever
it could be, it was quite efficient and very tricky.( I wonder how do you
believe this story, a kid stuff, just like that. God's word??)
Genesis
2:9,: "And out of the ground made the LORD
God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good
and evil."
So there were two types of trees in the midst
of the garden; one was good and the other was a tree of knowledge of good and
evil. If fruits of the latter tree were eaten, they would leave behind their
blissful state of innocence.
God forbids Adam and Eve
to eat the 'fruit' of the second tree. But everything goes awry! God becomes very angry and goes in search of Adam. Genesis 3:8 "… Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” So the almighty god could not even find him
in the garden of Eden! Another part of the kid stuff!! Then god's curse is followed. So god did not
know earlier that Adam would disobey his orders.
"… Adam's
decision to disobey God originated with Adam and not with God eluded by the
claim that God foreknew from eternity that just that eternity that decision
would bemade. The ruse here is the insistence that God foreknew from eternity
that Adam would freely choose to disoney God. But the very notion of freedom as
originative casualty loses loses its meaning in such an
interpretation". -- Reason and
religion: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Rem B. Edwards
(pp180)
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Why is god
against knowledge?
- · Proverbs 1:7: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
- ·
Proverbs 9:10 --
The fear of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom,…
- ·
Corinthians
1:19 -- “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will
frustrate.
- · Corinthians 3:20 -- “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.
Have two doubts on the above quotes. Firstly, why should god be
so against knowledge, wisdom, intelligence? Does it now show my contention -
that no religion can stand against rationality - is quite correct? Faith, if rationally
questioned, might develop a week knee.
Secondly, christianiy is always proclaimed by the believers that
it is a religion of love. They say their god is so merciful and their god loves
us all. But this quote - Proverbs 1:7 --
" The
fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise
wisdom and instruction. -- says that
"fear" is the essential
and only from fear knowledge grows.
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