re: Tell us something about God

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you don't understand the concept of original sin. god placed adam and eve in the garden of Eden and told them not to eat the forbidden fruit. well, they ate it. now thousands of generations later we are still being punished for that sin. See, it isn't gods fault that we are punished for something that we had nothing to do with. He is a fair and reasonable god! god is love!

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If you look at eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge as the consumption of a specific type of fruit from a specific tree or type of tree, it begs a set of secondary questions that will likely not yield any satisfactory answers.

If you look at partaking of that fruit as a re-alignment of perspective, it can mean something else. At the time of the event, Man existed, Good & Evil-- and knowledge of it-- existed (in the Tree, Serpent, etc.). What changed when that knowledge was consumed/internalized by man? Adam & Eve were naked before they ate the fruit, but their judgment was in harmony with God & the universe, and there was no need for shame... After they ate the fruit, the difference was a type of self-awareness. They now understood their nakedness differently and a self-centered form of judgment emerged in shame. It was a form of awakening, but also of making themselves the center of the universe, and thus cutting themselves off from Unity.

I won't spoon feed you what you should think about that. That's up to you. Some say it was bad. Some say it was necessary... it was, after all, a form of awakening. Even the Church has referred to this act as Felix Culpa (happy fault), in that it has given Man the awareness and opportunity to re-unite with God, not from compulsion, but through free will. Without forcing a religious perspective on it, this still makes sense as there is greater happiness and meaning in unity and greater misery in isolation and separation.

He's a righteous dude

lol. hate that..... not hate them.

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