[BB_Eye]

For God to have started again would be as if to admit to making a mistake and God, in essence, doesn't make mistakes. God gave Adam and Eve free will and the choice of either resisting or succumbing to temptation. How could we say they were human if they were incapable of choosing?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by BB_Eye

For God to have started again would be as if to admit to making a mistake and God, in essence, doesn't make mistakes. God gave Adam and Eve free will and the choice of either resisting or succumbing to temptation. How could we say they were human if they were incapable of choosing?

who says humans are humans only if they can choose?

[Shardlake]

I heard a Christian on the radio the other day (may have been the TV cant remember, may have even been the internet) anyway...

He was asked if there is a god why does he let all bad things happen to his people on earth.

He said that god let man take charge of their own destiny so that they could be shown how foolish they can be (or words to that effect).

Think it's all rubbish myself

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Shardlake

I heard a Christian on the radio the other day (may have been the TV cant remember, may have even been the internet) anyway...

He was asked if there is a god why does he let all bad things happen to his people on earth.

He said that god let man take charge of their own destiny so that they could be shown how foolish they can be (or words to that effect).

Think it's all rubbish myself

So he created us for his own amusement and take the p*ss out of us

[BB_Eye]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

who says humans are humans only if they can choose?

Thinking is an essential property of existence. In all other things, that is to say sensory things -hearing, seeing, touching, etc- there is room for doubt, because our senses can deceive us. Cartesian rationalism 101.

If we can think, then we can reason, if we can reason, then we can make choices.