You can take the bible literally or not. God, of the light, even if man’s idea, has an implicit messaGE: GOD created man, perfect, man insisted on eating off the forbidden tree, thereby getting to know of the Choice between good and evil. He choose evil?
God being perfect, would never choose darkness, and He gave his created likeness a crack at perfection. He had to give the potential to choose, since perfection implies the conquering of evil.
Like all parents, God being the Father, hoped, man would not need a figurative demonstration of the ways of the Fall, He warned his flock by the written word.
The objection here that being omniscient,He should have known man would disregard the written word, can be met with the open ended ness of choice within that knowledge, vis. God really does not know what the ultimate choice of man is, this is the gift of knowledge that man insisted on taking from God. Man is the final arbiter in his own destiny. This makes man a possible perfect image of God. His gift of man’s own perfection precluded God’s constriction on man’s choice.
Sorrily i had to break the train of thought, simply because my computer did not allow the inclusiveness of more than 3 quotes within one blog, and i had to answer the charge, starting with “rubbish”, by Lev.
Regards
DL
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sarcasm doesn’t work with me…
you mentioned the bible…specifically what else is important to you…
how else do you know about god…do you know from evolution theory…
Jesus’ message was you can be as I am.
If one person is condemned to an eternity of hell, God is also condemned to that hell because God lost a soul. You’ve heard the story of the shepherd who had a hundred sheep and one was lost. He abandoned the ninety and nine andwent in search of the one that was lost. Nothing else can be expected from a god of love.
And God’s message was, through the demonstration with Jacob, that You need not sacrifice Your son, as i have done with my. Therefore the only conclusion which may be drawn from this, is that Jesus’ sacrifice was not of a human replication, but of a gift, a benefit for those , who still have “so little faith”