What flaws? Do you appreciate your free will or would you sacrifice it to be a robotic clone of yourself who just did all things by instinct?
Meh. I'm an organic robot. Free will is an illusion, a lie we tell ourselves to get through the day. We may have will, but it is costly, not free.
The flying spaghetti monster has no evidence for his existence
Sorry, but, in fact,
it was located in the ocean.
You are confusing everlasting life with immortality...they are not the same. Immortals cannot die, but man was created mortal.
Ancient gods also had to eat or drink magic foodstuffs to retain immortality as well. The serpent and then God imply this is the reason God didn't want to share.
What humans had was not a life of luxury at all. They were created with strong bodies built for work.
Their assignment was to "fill the earth and subdue it". This entailed turning the whole planet outside their garden home into something resembling Eden. You have the wrong picture entirely. God made humans in his image, with his flair for creativity a love for satisfying work.
Do you have a different Genesis than I do? WORK WAS THE PUNISHMENT ONCE THEY LEFT THE GARDEN. If it is a punishment, it makes no sense they were slaving away in a garden, which was not the entire world, or there'd be no "other place" for them to be exiled to.
We are not anywhere close to the perfection that Adam and his wife enjoyed.
So now we get to "perfection that Adam and his wife enjoyed" when just above that in the same post is "What humans had was not a life of luxury at all." Weird.
Christ came and fulfilled that part of the law rendering it no longer binding on his disciples.
Not one jot or tittle shall be removed or whatever -- Jesus
Can we break them with impunity and claim that the devil made us do it? Try that one on and see how it works....
Paradises don't work that way, though. You claim that we are all still so flawed, so terrible in relation to a "perfect" first couple that it's obvious that ship has sailed.
Ants didn't plan to farm aphids...they are programmed to farm aphids.
You know this how? You spend the night with the ant queen and she told you how her colony works?
all except humans get on with life without elaborate funerals, memorials and mourning rituals. Dogs and cats will bury their food but not their corpses.
Viewer Discretion Advised:
Penguins
Elephants
Monkeys
Mourning Doves
Cats
Geese
Etc, etc
They have mourning. That they do not have YOUR mourning rituals is rather anthropocentric and egocentric.
Humans have no program for death....we were not created to die...so aging, sickness and death are as foreign to us now as they were to Adam and his wife.
Jesus came to get us back what we lost. It is not that complicated.
That just ... just ... no. Of course it's not complicated. We are mortal beings, just like all the other mortal beings. Did Adam and Eve have kids as infants? Did Adam and Eve live to be almost a thousand years old and still look like infants? Did the food they eat live through their digestion process? If they had a duck dinner, did the duck come out the other end and fly off?
Do you have faith that you will wake up tomorrow morning? Is there any proof that you will?
There is statistical likelihood. If you knew all the relevant variables, you could, indeed, work out if you were assured to wake up tomorrow.
As a Jehovah's Witness there are many billions of people she believes won't get God's blessing because she has no proof
that they deserve it.
A faithful JW believes the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses can do no lasting damage because they have no proof that they have any ill intentions.
To be fair, though, hers is hardly the only denomination that acts that way.
There are all sorts of websites which offer plenty of proofs that there is a God.
Well, there are plenty of websites with bad logic and fact finding skills.
I'm reading a book by Ehrman about memory and how it relates to the stories of Jesus being reliable. He mentions how we have four gospels because Iraneus says it's because the four winds dispersed the word to the four corners of the earth and that's why. So, we have four gospels instead of at least 12 because someone is really truly bad at logic.
Christendom has been here since Pentecost. JW's didn't show up until the 19th Century.
Your denomination wasn't at the beginning either. No one's was. If we were the OG followers, we'd be Jews. The term "Christian" didn't exist in Jesus' lifetime, so NO ONE who was actually there were Christians.
