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The official story is that he had to give them a chance. You don't just trust cosmetics to be safe, you rub them into the eyes of defensless little bunnies to see if it blinds them and then market it to consumers anyway.
He "risked" it to give humans the chance to prove their love, I guess.


God is only the God of Earth, actually Jehovah is only the God of people of Jewish descent. Other people were around before Adam and Eve, it says so in the 2nd chapter of genesis. The god of the Christians is only a face or aspect of the divine/cosmic energy/etc Jewish people actually made him in their image to make him easier to understand and communicate with. We can't think in enough dimensions to fully comprehend "god".
In other words, you're right, very good.


Haha, it sounds strange because it's part of the truth that clergy of various religions try to obscure. You should check out subforum #39 spirituality. You would fit in well there, there would be answers to your questions and a lot of people who think like this.
Actually, feel free to PM me. You sound like you also have begun to question and most intelligently.

No, I don't, though sometimes I have wished that there was, when I was very sad or very happy and wanted so badly for there to be 'something else' to.. join in to.

I've researched the history of religions at uni, in-depth. Imagine that you're living in an early (typically small) human clan-group. One year, all is joy. The next year, most of the infants and the elderly die. The following year, they're all well.. The harvest is good for 2 years, then eg locusts/grasshoppers invade and eat it to the ground for four years in a row. One day, it's been raining, then the sun comes out, and suddenly, after the nightmare, you see a rainbow.. this is how religions start. The basic 'WHY?' and the 'how'. The imperative in humans to understand their world. With no science, no history.. what would you do? This is how the early religions started, with angry, 'jealous' gods such as Jehovah (yes, Jesus' father), who would happily kill all the children in a 'tribe'; who'd carry the punishment for a crime over 7 generations (explains the droughts/insect devastations/over-farming of animals in a pre-science era). Times were too hard, and when you are trying to understand what is happening, you evolve the concept of gods.. angry gods. It's in the Bible. The rainbow becomes a covenant from 'God' with a capital 'G': after the flood, it's a promise that he won't mass-slaughter all living beings again.

Then, gradually, slowly, humans developed the idea of living together: creating a society. There began to be a concept of 'safety'. Life was still brutal, but.. in a town or city, you had neighbours at worst: law, justice, and HELP IN RETURN FOR TAXES at best. When famine hit, there was seed crop. When illness hit, there was rudimentary medicine. Most importantly, you were no longer isolated, and you could see that there was something at work which wasn't the arbitrary will of a 'god'. That's when humans began to reject the early, vicious gods.. their understanding of their world was expanding, so those gods were.. immature. That's when the "sons of" began appearing: god-like beings, connected to the God, who reflected the newer, safer vision of humanity. Less life and death, smite and kill, more.. love and obey, sublimate and (endure shite but) prosper. Eg Jesus, Mohammed.. kinder.

These days.. I recommend that anyone who thinks that Christianity is fluffy, finds a full, proper version of the ten commandments. It's not easy reading.



This is just one of the commandments which Jesus told Peter were essential to follow, to be loved by God his father and get a place in heaven. Given my life, my great-grandchildren are going to be wretched, because I was once in love with the ancient Greek gods/wicca. Elsewhere, a commandment insists that one works for 6 days a week, and rests on the seventh: you, your family and your male or female slaves. Slaves? 6 days? You see?? This is OF IT'S TIME. It explains society as people were living it then. That's what a religion is: it's a way for desperate humans, with the brain we have, but none of the knowledge that we have now, to try to make sense of life. And to understand the rainbow.

Sure, I believe in God, but i also believe that little magical fairies make the TVs run. No, really, if my parents didn't force me to be catholic, I would be agnostic. One who doesn't believe it is possible to have absolute or certain knowledge of God or gods; or, alternatively, that while certainty may be possible, they personally have no knowledge. I think religion sucks, and that there are to many "God" figures out there to determine the "real" one. All I think of life is that we live to die, so do whatever you can/want to make what little time you have the best.

I'm an Animist- the Native American belief that basically everything has a spirit and we're all connected by life and nature.

It's okay to have your religion and everything...But I can't stand people who treat me like the scum of the Earth because I don't go to church or anything. They just call me a sinner and be done with it. Honestly, just because I'm not religious doesn't mean I have no morals!

You know, a majority of the troublemakers I knew back in school- the kids who smoked in front of the library, the ones who broke open the window at the gas station and broke the pizza parlor door, the ones who pushed a kid in front of a moving car (thankfully, he wasn't hurt), the ones who had lost their virginity by seventh grade- were religious. Now, I'm not saying religion makes you a bad person- I'm just saying that not having it doesn't make you one, either.

The worst part is, some people take it farther, using it as excuses for all kinds of uneccessary tripe, like violence and racism. You know, like that one guy who shot three homosexual people becuase apparently 'God wanted him to', or the fact that the war is right because 'the Middle Easterners deserve to burn in hell'. They take religion and use it as a basis for any kind of discrimination or stupidity they please.

I'm sick of being pressured to become Orthodox. I get so many preachings, and one guy tried to pressure me by showing me this chain letter about the grisly deaths of about thirty billion people (oddly all either homosexual or of other races/religions) who weren't Christian. I'm happy the way I am, and my life is fine.

Now, if you're religious and a nice person who doesn't use it as an excuse for violence/discrimination, doesn't make it the focus of everything in your life, and doesn't try to shove your religion down other peoples' throats, then that's okay.

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im not a christian and i need to understand a few things
the tree that adam and eve ate from
a point was made earlier that by eating from the tree, adam and eve were rejecting god
ok
imma compare it to this
Have you ever been told not to do something by a parent, but wanted to know what its like and tried it anyways?(if you say no to this question, then ur an idiotic liar)(and i know that there was no point to the question it was rhetorical)
Thats what I think happened.
Curiosity killed the cat and eve ate the fruit of the tree. She saw no harm from eating it so she told adam, its ok to eat. They were curious and were simply trying to satisfy their curiosity. Puppies and children do the same thing.
Another adam and eve question.
how on earth are their so many people if there were only 2 people to begin with and they only had 2 children, both boys? it makes no sense to me.

I once read a quote about how an all-knowing and all-powerful being created imperfect humans and blames us for his mistake!

You should check out this site: http://www.godchecker.com/

How many of these thousands of gods would you say might exist? If you keep an open mind about one god, then you need to keep an open mind about them all, for they all have the same amount of evidence - that is zero. I'd worry that keeping my mind that open would allow my brains to fall out!!