Stephen T-B

A BGiC statement caught my eye: the one about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil being put in place so as to allow Adam and Eve to exercise their free will.

Were they to exercise their free will when deciding whether or not to eat the fruit in the first place, or were they to exercise it only after they’d eaten it and could now distinguish between doing that which is evil or that which is good.

In view of the fact that God expressly forbade them to eat it, I don’t see how that last can be the case.

But if they hadn’t eaten it, how would they know that obeying God was good and disobeying him was evil?

I have another question: is the god BGiC worships an entity which deliberately set a trap for the being he newly created in his image, and then, when the poor sap steps right into it, sentences him and his descendants to hard labour for life? What sort of “loving father” would do a thing like that?

As allegory, the story of Adam and Eve is a lot less than satisfactory. (And of course, only someone with a few million brain cells short of the full set can think it actually happened.)

Randy X

To answer the original title, " What did God do exclusively and directly by himself?", absolutely nothing.Zero, nada.Although he is a brilliant meme.He exists in a realm of impossibility, yet theist understand the workings of God Can you read, "delusional"? I will not tolerate any childish behaviour on the theists behalf, and failure to comply to my needs, will be banished to "hell"

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