Both Job and Jesus proved Satan a liar by remaining faithful under adverse conditions.
Job cursed the day he was born. Not cursing Job shows that Job was unwilling to call God out, though he actually kinda did. That God will kill people who rightly have valid complaints about mistreatment makes God out to be a monster. Also, Jesus was tempted with power over nature, authority, etc. Jesus didn't take the bait during the temptation, but also poofed up wine and food, encouraged comparisons to kingship, stilled storms, killed trees, etc. Satan can't tempt you unless he's accusing you of something you already have in your heart and were just trying to keep on the DL. Satan was not testing Job, he was testing God, and God didn't disappoint, even admitting Job had done no wrong and God was being a hateful prick.
No faith equals the strong pounding the weak. Its what atheism is.
What do you call the "saved" lording it over the "unsaved"? It's the same thing, just different labels.
He who has the biggest number wins.
Numbers dont' prove right or wrong, only facts do.
The beauty of Jesus is that he is about sacrifice for others and putting self behind others needs.
In some gospels, he doesn't sound too thrilled. In fact, he constantly runs from angry mobs and authority figures to survive. He only dies when there is no more option to run. His "help" only seems to serve "photo op" type events (weddings, sermons, etc). He talks big about keeping our religion quiet but is quite the attention hog, demanding parades and that people just drop what they're doing and serve him.
The Way is a good Way, but Jesus left a lot of room for improvement.
No one who died before Jesus died went to heaven - John 3:13
John doesn't know the stories in the bible, as both Elijah and Enoch get beamed up to heaven WITHOUT dying because they were so righteous.
In your mind being that Jews, christians, and muslims won't change their views, how do you think God should deal with us to bring peace to the earth since we won't change our ways?
Do what He's doing now: reveal His followers to be butt-kissing egotists and humble them while promoting the "other", the "outcast", etc.
Had adam not sinned they would have remained living but they didn't they died.
Elijah and Enoch didn't.
Why are you fixated on it? Do you feel you were severely wronged by God for being born mortal? Take it up with God. Other people grasped mortality long ago. Your arrogance demands God should've made you immortal. He never said He would.
2. Satan then says in genesis 3:4 you certainly will not die. He challenged god, and called him a liar.
You are flat out ignoring that God Himself verifies the serpent's statements (you are so used to lying about Satan that you insist on putting him in this story when he just isn't) mere lines later. God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat the fruit NOT because it would bring death, but because He didn't want us to share His powers. That's it. It's right there in the text.
1.God gave Adam everything he needed and could possibly want.
It took God a long time just to figure out Adam needed another human as a mate.
If 'God' is not omnipotent, then it is not God.
Not all gods had to be omnipotent. We are influenced by "ideal forms", where a god must be the most awesome thing we can come up with (ignoring that many lack good imaginations). Gods just ususally had some sort of power over some aspect of creation that humans lacked.
If god created us with the intention of being tested with evil and created us to die, I want nothing to do with that. That does not reflect a god of love.
Any child you create is mortal. Do you love them less because they can never live forever?
Unlike Adam, we can sin by mistake, by accident, unintentionally.
Only willful sins are sins. Otherwise, they are mistakes or accidents. God judges motive, according to the bible.
3. As I have answered before he created the tree so that the they could exercise their free will. God would have wanted for them to see that God gave them everything and that everything was good, so in all honesty it should have been a no brainer to obey our heavenly father who has given us life.
If you leave a gun out in front of a kid to test their free will, it's not the fault of the kid it was picked up and you or the kid were shot ... it's YOUR fault.
