theseeker wrote:Look, I'm fucked up and the next time I log in I'm probably going to be fucked up, so...... Can someone put that long shit raums talking about in english, 21st century english, instead of early, never been heard in a real long time anglo saxon....
Hey, he doesn't say things lightly, nor does he post lightly. Sure his words can seem quite dense at first, but that's because he puts A LOT into his words. It's a lot to process.
He does give a lot of analogies to help explain things.
Here.
God told Adam & Eve to NOT eat the fruit from the Tree of "Knowledge".
Yet, God PLANTED that tree.
So, if God didn't want Adam and Even to eat from it at all, why would he plant that tree?
Doesn't that contradict the situation?
Why would he create it at all, and put it in their presence?
There must be some reason why.........
He told them NOT to eat it, by that very fact, he gave them a choice. He gave them the choice to NOT eat from it.
Satan egged Eve (and through Eve, Adam) on to take the choice of eating from the tree.
That was the opposing choice.
Straight up, that sets up the idea of Evil being the opposite of Good.
And begins the idea of implications of one's actions. God WANTED Adam and Eve to face those implications. "Should I or shouldn't I?" It's like in cartoons where they have the good conscience and bad conscience, God & Satan, Good & Evil, each proposing what the person should decide. They both say what the implications are.
It's just that Adam & Eve jumped the gun, and got themselves stuck into facing implications a bit too early. But yet again, why didn't God just plant that tree later on?
Another thing- Killing is not exactly the same thing as murder.
A little kid doesn't intend to
murder a cricket when they pick its guts to pieces. Sure, they killed the creature, but they didn't intend to harm the life and soul, to diminish and destruct the well-being of it.
One day while driving on the road, I saw something bolt across the highway. It happened very quickly, and I accidentally run over it. I heard the SPLAT! and was horrified. I screamed "I MURDERED the animal!" I was devasted. I felt that just because I ceased the life of that animal, I was a murderer.
But afterwards, and when I examined the scene, I realised that I didn't at all intend to kill the animal. I did kill it (it was a rat). But I didn't MURDER it. I was not vindictive or malicious in my actions.
In another thread, I will bring up the topic and discuss why people are malicious and vindictive. Check out my "Shadow Dancers" thread.
That's why people are jailed for murder, even if they didn't actually kill anyone. They INTENDED to murder, and that itself is so sinister and evil, is prohibited by law.