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Is it your premise that app. 6000 years ago, a man and a woman ate a piece of fruit your God told them not to eat, so 4000 years later God created a physical version of himself, and allowed him to be brutally killed, so that everyone on earth from that point forward could be forgiven for that man and woman eating that fruit 4000 years prior?

2007-03-13 07:58:44 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Okay - ignore the 6000 years /4000 years part... I understand that is a minority of Christians who adhere to that

2007-03-13 08:13:59 · update #1

16 answers

You're oversimplifying it, but yes.

2007-03-13 08:13:44 · answer #1 · answered by high_blizzard_alert 2 · 0 1

No, it's not. For instance, that 6000 year period had its start when a fellow named Bishop Ussher decided to calculate the date of Creation by counting back the lifespans of various people mentioned in the Bible. As I recall, he ended up with something like 9 AM, October 12, 4004 BC. Pretty accurate calculations, if you ask me. He overlooked a couple of things, primarily that that isn't what those chapters are meant to do. Any calculation done on that basis is flawed from the start.

2007-03-13 15:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

That is not really any Christian's premise.

Only a very small minority of Christians believe in a 6000 year old Earth. And, most Christians don't take the Tree of Knowledge story literally.

2007-03-13 15:02:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Not all Christians are young earth creationists. I believe in an old earth (ie: the universe really is 5 billion odd years old).

It wasn't the physical act of eating fruit that was wrong. It was something that God said was wrong. Going against God's plan is what sin is and what brought sin into the world (and I have my doubts that the story is literal). Since then all people have gone against God's will in some form or another (the definition of sin).

2007-03-13 15:04:47 · answer #4 · answered by LX V 6 · 0 1

In the examination of the scriptures we must pose the question as to who is the author of evil?

There are those who suggest the fallen Angel Satin is the author of evil. The doctrine of Original Sin states that all mankind are sinners because they share in the sin of Adam and Eve who fell from grace in the Garden of Eden.

Yet the Bible also clearly teaches that all these events were predestined by God prior to even the first act of Creation. Further, the Bible not only teaches that God created what we call evil, but that all evil is under His direct control.

Thus the question is posed in scripture: “Does evil befall a city, unless the LORD has done it?” (Amos 3:6 RSV).

And what does the scriptures state is the source of darkness and evil? “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things” (Isa 45:7 KJV).

2007-03-13 15:06:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

I would like to know what happened to all those other people who lived between 6,000 to 2,000 years ago. Did God just not see fit to save them? Why did it take so long to get a savior?

Does that mean for a good 4,000 years the majority of the worlds population was condemned for all eternity just because they lived at the wrong time?

2007-03-13 15:11:17 · answer #6 · answered by noncrazed 4 · 0 0

Its not a premise, its a fulfilled prophesy. You see, millions of years before Jesus and the Bible, God made many predictions, or prophesies, and had Paul McCartney write them into a book now known as "The Holy Bible". Since then, all of the predictions have come true through divine miracle!! An apple-wielding snake, a virgin birth, all war and struggle...these are just proof that the Bible is REAL!! It all makes perfect sense when you stop thinking about it...I mean, stop to think about it.

I hope you are less confused now.

2007-03-13 15:04:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Most Christians, like most people, are not young earth creationists. Most believe the Earth to be billions of years old. Only a small percentage of Christians are super duper fundamentalist about the Earth's age.

As for Jesus (pbuh), he came to bring people back to God. Christians are in great error when they say that Jesus paid some kind of blood sacrifice for our sins. It is IMPOSSIBLE for one man to take the brunt of punishment for ALL of humanity, past/present/future. IMPOSSIBLE, Jesus hadn't enough physical body for that to be done!

God forgives, and doesn't need sacrifice to forgive either. He can forgive us, and does, without anyone dying, without anyone shedding blood, without any of that.

It was the Jewish leaders who wanted Jesus killed, so they told Pilate that Jesus claimed to be King of the Jews (he didn't say this but the Jewish leaders claimed this), which was technically illegal, since only Caesar was king. To control an angry mob who might have rioted otherwise, Pilate had Jesus crucified.

Did God know this would happen? Yes. Was that Jesus' mission? No. What was Jesus' mission? TO BRING PEOPLE TO GOD, Who can and does forgive. God needs no sacrifice or death to forgive, God needs nothing. God's hands aren't tied to this or to anything, He doeth as He willeth.

2007-03-13 15:19:04 · answer #8 · answered by Dolores G. Llamas 6 · 0 0

You forgot the fact that Adam was standing right next to Eve while she was talking to the snake, if you read carefully in the KJV, it states it plainly, that she then hands the fruit to Adam who has been standing there the whole time and never says a word. Thats a fact all Christian men leave out and then still blame us women for, but men have sin nature they act kust liek Adam and its in their DNA.

2007-03-13 15:09:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Its my premise that we are all of us self seeking individuals that need an advocate before God to act on our behalf so that we might enter eternity into the presence of God and avoid eternal seperation from He alone knows what is best for us.

2007-03-13 15:09:50 · answer #10 · answered by messenger 3 · 0 0

Not every single Christian takes the Bible as 100% fact, even certain fundamentalist Christians will admit that it shouldn't be taken literally. I'm not a Christian and even I know that. Atheists use this criticism against the religion over and over, can't come up with anything new to use in your efforts to make them look bad huh?

2007-03-13 15:08:32 · answer #11 · answered by James P 6 · 0 1

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