Religion just points the way so the further you proceed down the path the more you must filter out [the intellectual]. It's like math...once you add 1+1, you let it go and just take 2 with you.
He would have probably opened up a tattoo parlor instead of a clothing business. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e4/a8/8c/e4a88c0bc05ba035e3b38f7ead42642a.jpg
While I agree that this is a funny joke, it's notable that, according to the Bible, God gave clothing to Adam and Eve but later outlawed tattoos.
Yes. I'm glad you finally read up on it. According to the Bible, after Adam and Eve learned the difference between good and evil, they learned they were naked and then covered themselves up. God also helped them cover up. What is mixing you up? What are you confused about?
"Who told you that you were naked?" So who told Adam and Eve that they were naked Yardmeat? Your comprehension is on par with your comprehension of rocket surgery.
If you had read the text, and this is not the only time you've proven you haven't, you'd know that the indication is that knowing the difference between good and evil (from eating the fruit) is what caused them to know they were naked. God says as much in the text . . . which, again, this is at least the 3rd time you've proven you haven't read.
I am of the belief that all the religions of the earth are beginning to find more common ground....... partly due to the commonalities in near death experience accounts by members of the various religions..... as well as by Atheists. Mellen Benedict terms himself an Atheist at the time of his brush with death..... so he was able to ask very different questions of the beings or Beings of light who communicated with him during his near death experience back in 1982. https://near-death.com/mellen-thomas-benedict/
Then specify what you want a quote for that you didn't know before and I will gladly provide that quote.
Back up what you said already, what are you kidding me? You type a lot faster than you can think. But I don't see you quoting Genesis, Yardmeat. I eagerly await your bible quotes that back up any of your previous statements. Make sure your face is clean now.
Okay, let's try this out. If you remember from the previous post, I was trying to help you save some face. You appear to prefer the NIV. Though not my favorite, I will go with that and we'll go one at a time: Genesis 3:22 "And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil . . . "
Did not Adam and Eve know right (good) from wrong (evil) prior to the event of the fall? The "knowing" in the verse refers to the decision process, not the end result. Like God they took on themselves the act of deciding good from evil, thus declaring themselves godlike.
You are saying that Adam and Eve knew good from evil even before eating from the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil? Interesting take. How do you make sense of the "Now become . . . " part?
Of course they did. God told them what was good and evil, and the serpent got Eve to question God's instruction on what to stay away from.
Wash your face. You said- Back up that statement using quotes like you said you would. But you won't. It's not that you couldn't try. It's simply that you will not. You probably never even read Genesis.
In general I try to adhere to definitions that are standard English and not create my own definitions. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evil
That is certainly one possibility....... what he wrote was off the scale brilliant... that is true....... ..... but near death experiencers often experience a major increase in intelligence.... and many other abilities after they have a brush with death. I would tend to think that a decrease in IQ would be more probable???? Will near death experience accounts transform psychiatry and psychology?
From a Christian perspective, how can one not speak of God when God is the source of our existence, and the light and life of our lives. Or that it is he in whom we live, rather than in ourselves and this mortal life alone.
