re: Catholic/Protestant Debate

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fall of Adam

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Isn’t what you think it is. According to 1 Enoch, the most numerous scroll kept at the Qumran community of Essenes, and the most referenced book by New Testament authors, Eden was in heaven, and Adam fell to the earth when he was kicked out. It was a literal fall.

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This is where free will comes into play

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The Pharaoh have free will when Yahweh hardened his heart? Did the inhabitants of Jericho have free will when Yahweh gave them into the hand of Joshua so that he could kill all their children and babies? Did the Sodomites have free will? Did Saul’s wives have free will when Yahweh handed them over to David?

Why doesn’t Yahweh stop rapists? Does he value the free will of the rapist over the free will of the innocent victim?

I thought Yahweh has a plan and knows everything and can do anything. You can’t have both of those things with free will without having a logical fallacy. But we know he doesn’t have a plan, at least not a good one, and he isn’t all powerful, else he wouldn’t have had to kick Adam out of Eden, and he wouldn’t have had to hit the reset button due to his evil running amuck on earth (Noah’s flood). If he was all powerful, he wouldn’t have enemies or adversaries, but he does, right? The devil would be pretty dumb to oppose the all powerful god if opposing him was pointless.