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Morgan Williams said:Do you actually buy the Adam and Eve story? Most believers who have even a basic grasp of science view it as a metaphor. Even the Catholic Church and the Pope have accepted evolution as reality. If you cling to the idea of Adam and Eve being literal, you aren't just ignoring biology—you're basically claiming the Earth is a flat disc 6,000 years old with planets orbiting us. You can't pick and choose which facts to ignore when discussing how genetic mutations turned hominoids into humans.
It just hit me: if Original Sin comes from Adam and Eve, but they couldn't have existed as described in the Bible, then the whole concept of Original Sin becomes a joke.
No, I don't, but I remember seeing that specific atheist argument somewhere once, and it triggered this thought, which is why I brought it up.
Matthew Anderson4 said:Nobody.
just looking at the picture that started this mess. modern Christianity and what it was 1,900 years ago both fail right out of the gate by treating God like a person. honestly, it doesn't matter if people today are less spiritual than they used to be—it's all basically at a playground level of understanding anyway.
saying Christianity doesn't view God as a person is just ridiculous.
It's foolish to lump modern Christianity together with how things were 1,900 years ago—you know, during the Crusades or the Inquisition. It's like saying you wouldn't call modern-day Germany primitive just because sixty years ago they were still clinging to some pretty backward ideas. Look, I believe plenty of Christians still picture God as some old man floating on a cloud, but honestly, that's more a matter of education, and frankly, it's irrelevant when even the "intellectuals" struggle to wrap their heads around it. Just because you can't grasp something doesn't mean you have to reject it. You accept it in its simplest form and then spend the rest of your life trying to figure out the incomprehensible parts at the beginning.
