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Post by gadreel on Jun 19, 2019 23:04:45 GMT
it's foundational to Christianity because the doctrine of original sin is foundational to Christianity, what I am saying is that no one was at the garden of eden to record documentary style what went on. The creators of genesis observed our fallen state and came up with an explanation , that being the fall from grace in the garden of eden. You see what I mean? That this is a story that describes the observation, not an observed story that explains the state. It's an important distinction. Then the story that the creators of genesis came up with weren't concerned that it portrays God as being unfair. And neither were the creators of the later books of the Bible. The creators of the bible were many, I have said previously many times that I interpret each book seperately and I believe that many books can be dismissed as written with the purpose of controlling men.
But lets look at this unfairness from a different angle.
The fact that we seem to be born into a world that is harsh and ultimately results in our death (at the time of the creation of the bible, likely a painful death) could certainly be seen to be be unfair, genesis explains that unfairness.
So the question is: is God unfair and so life is unfair, or is life unfair and so a portrayal of only that aspect of God will seem unfair. Bear in mind that the ultimate end goal of the bible is put up with this unfairness and God will reward you in paradise, something that focussing on this particular part of the bible conveniently ignores so that people can complain about how mean God is.
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