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And how do you know god gave adam the mind of a toddler and not a mind of an adult?
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Imagine you're just born and days later you're fucking your clone. Next thing you know God curses you and your offspring for a thousand generations because you ate the wrong fruit. >

The fruit thing feels like a setup anyway. It's like you left out a bowl of candy for a kid and told him to never eat one certain kind in the bowl. >

That is explicitly how theology proposes this works.
The crime wasn’t in the action (eating fruit) but in disobeying god.
The issue with this is.... the fruit they ate was that of knowledge of good and evil.
How the hell were Adam and Eve supposed to know that disobeying god was wrong if they don’t have a concept of right or wrong prior to eating the fruit? 
Rhetorical question. Of fucking course, they couldn’t. So they and their offspring would suffer for committing a crime they didn’t possess the capacity to knowingly commit until the moment they’d committed said crime. 
God is a scumbag. >

I thought they got kicked out because they broke obedience to God. Obeying an order doesn't require you to consider if said order is good or evil. >

The issue is they couldn’t have known that disobedience was wrong in the first place.
God said don’t do it, satan said they should. How should they know who to listen to?
Answer is they can’t. Because they literally don’t understand right from wrong until after eating the fruit.
This is the equivalent of punishing a baby who’s drawn on the walls with crayon after telling them they can’t by chucking them out of the house. >

There is no God and no one was actually kicked out of a mythical garden, I believe the point of this parable was to obey the word of God (that we made up) without question or thought.
Saying God is a scumbag for kicking them out is missing the point of the tale. Blind obedience is considered a virtue. Listening to others and then making your own moral judgments (right or wrong) contrary to the word of God is a sin. >


There is no God and no one was actually kicked out of a mythical garden, I believe the point of this parable was to obey the word of God (that we made up) without question or thought.
Saying God is a scumbag for kicking them out is missing the point of the tale. Blind obedience is considered a virtue. Listening to others and then making your own moral judgments (right or wrong) contrary to the word of God is a sin.

I'm sorry, but this is an incorrect take.
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And He entered the synagogue again, and a man was there who had a withered hand. So they watched Him closely, whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. And He said to the man who had the withered hand, “Step forward.” Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they kept silent. And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
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The entire point of Jesus' coming was to free us from a set of rules. "Don't be self-serving," basically. Don't mix Republicanism with Christianity. >

Did you really just tell someone with an Atheistic stance on God that they were wrong by quoting scripture at them? You really don't get it do you? Blind faith above all else, lest ye admit thy hath been duped from the start. >

The second part, not the first. Listening to others and then making moral judgements is literally the point. >

The Bible has Adam grow to something like 930 or so years old.
Where's the assumption that he had anything close to the same maturation process as normal humans coming from? >

I read ancient jewish people used the moon to track time so adam would bn about 30.
They count phases of the moon not years. >

That wouldn't explain why the lifespan every generation gradually went down until Moses who died an old man at the age of 120. Not to mention Adam had a child at the age of 130, which by that calendar would make him too young. Genesis 5: 

3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

130/900 is 14.4% of Adam's life, so if he died at the age of 30 that means he had a son at age 4. If he lived to a ripe old 80, his son would be born when he was 11. I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that you're supposed to understand it as Adam lived for actual centuries. >

Methusla died during the flood and was the oldest if were talking bible lore. Supposedly only 1656 passed from the time between adam and moses but adam lived for 1000 years.  The time doesn't make any sense because they were nomadic tribes back then. They didnt keep books and records they told storie. Remember playing telephone in school.
Also considering not one date was written down. How did adam track time at all? Why would he? >

I obviously don't believe in those fairy tales but iirc Exodus is supposed to happen ~1500 BCE, and the year now is 5782, so by quick maths that means around 2200 years between Adam and Moses. >

I just looked it up and that's going by their time. They think the worlds 5000 year old. 
Still even 2200 years and adam lived a 1000 methusala lived to the flood and was a 1000 none of it adds up.
I think old people like to lie about their age lol. Guess wants your so old and everybody died you can just wing it. >

Methuselah didn't wait for Adam to die before he was born... Adam was 190 when Methuselah was born. I'm not saying it's true, but it's internally consistent. You can look up biblical timelines if you want, they have ones with years and everything
But anyway that's a creation myth, like this appears in the book before the invention of different languages so clearly it's not eyewitness accounts >

Yeah thats my point. Hell it like jesus never writing any books most of it makes no sense or logic that adds up. >

Right? He had the body of an adult but he had the mind of a toddler really.
Imagine getting so mad and outraged because your toddler son misbehaved!