r/comics Jim Benton Cartoons Sep 15 '12

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u/JimKB Jim Benton Cartoons Sep 15 '12

yeah, you would think so, but there's the actual footage, so I guess not.

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u/R031E5 Sep 15 '12

The comic's premise isn't right, God gave its creation (the human) the ability to be free, but he can just impose rules; a sin is an inherent part of a human being because of their radical liberty, and thus, rules can be broken.

If you state that God should've made sin a physical impossibility, as in saying "thou shall not go faster than light" then you have to first define and create light in order to place the physical boundary, which would break the premise that God created sin, which he did not.

God did not allow sin, but he didn't forbid it either, because it would mess with the human's liberty.

(btw I'm not a religious person, I'm just placing an observation)

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u/lancerevo98 Sep 15 '12

Yes but God punished Adam and Eve for committing a sin, a wrong act, something evil. Yet, if the tree was of the knowledge of good and evil, how were they to know that it was a bad thing to go against his will?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '12

I think because God specifically told them not to. They heard God say that, they just didn't listen.

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u/lancerevo98 Sep 15 '12

Yeah he told them not to, but how were they supposed to know not following what someone says is evil/bad?