Quote (death_knight @ Feb 9 2021 05:46am)
Alright I'll entertain your research, but first you must realize that I base my religious views on my experience only and even that is subject to misinterpretation.. if God approaches name now there is still the possibility that I'm either crazy, being deceived or maybe God is just another ant and he doesn't even know it, objectively this is possible so if we are to have a logical scientific debate you must address these "concerns" right?
Furthermore to classify me as the rest is poor judgment, there are far fewer agnostics (and vegan) in the world than folk such as yourself, I challenge you to remove bias and answer accordingly
I'm guessing the first question you have on your mind is "Can you really trust God and The Bible?"
Let's explore that.
We shall start with Genesis 3:1-13.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
This is the first record of God's word and trust being questioned. The serpent made it out to be that God was holding back all the good things and that He was lying. "You will not surely die." It turns out that the serpent was the one who was being deceptive and not God.
That is the first thing you will read when I posted about this very thing here:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=66318140&f=125&p=444305926You will find that I have posted a lot of articles on these various subjects. Some of the articles are based on Sunday Sermons while others are based on websites that I have researched. Every time I had a question then it was satisfactorily answered.