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We can't second guess God, but we can speculate why. Perhaps it was because through Adam & Eve generations of children any of them could eventually screw up somehow since Adam & Eve screwed up despite being created "good" and in a lovely garden in fellowship with God Himself. Might as well let...

It does when looked at through that perspective. However there are some that look at it through the perspective that God was an unfit father by placing His children in a playpen where He kew there was poisonous fruit. One can make God appear good or bad depending on which perspective they view...

I believe he means all of mankind. What do you think?

Here's my view of it in a simplistic nutshell: I lean towards the viewpoint that Satan's actual rebellion happened in the garden when he tempted mankind to rebel because Ezekiel 28 tells of him being in the garden and was blameless until unrighteousness was found in him and we don't see a...

There's a lot that can be said and questioned about having the knowledge of good and evil and what the result can be of having that knowledge. One could ask why God forbid Adam & Eve to have that knowledge, and yet God was pleased to grant Solomon that knowledge. 1 Kings 3 ESV (9) Give your...

Yeppers. Masons are just another packaging of spiritual alchemy and gnosticim. Seeking hidden divine knowledge to help you open yourself up to the inner self-realization that you can rise above and be part of brotherhood of godlike beings that shepherd order back to a chaotic world. It started...

How lovely it is that there was already a priesthood of the Most High God in the world long before Israel existed and had nothing to do with the blood descendants of Abraham. Not to mention that it was not the priesthood established for Israel that would be the priesthood that Christ would be of...

Paul certainly believed we are partakers of the bread (the one body of Christ) and the cup (the new covenant). Luke 22:19-20 ESV (19) And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of...

It's been a world-wide divisive subject and I haven't seen much talk about it here at TOL. Protests and riots have broken out over it. So I'll say right up front that if Hamas and Israel go to war I will be cheering for Israel to dislodge Hamas as quickly as they can.