From: Michael Gray 

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:43:17 -0400, Darrell Stec
 wrote:
  - Refer: 
>After serious contemplation, on or about Friday 23 March 2007 11:49 pm
>Steve O perhaps from spamhere{at}nowhere.com wrote:
>
>>
>> "Dionisio"  wrote in message
>> news:46049e80$0$4926$4c368faf{at}roadrunner.com...
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>>> And the Thought of the Moment (TM) is:
>>>
>>> God told Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of
>>> knowledge of good and evil. If this were the only venue through which
>>> they could understand the difference between good and evil, how could
>>> they have known that it was wrong to disobey God and eat the fruit?
>>>
>>> (Brought to you by SigChanger. http://www.phranc.nl)
>>
>> Because God told then not to do it.
>
>A closer reading of Genesis show two different stories.  In the second,
>where Adam and Eve were not created at the same time, when Eve was made
>from the rib (a poor translation which should read side or facet -- as
>in hermaphrodite, god gives the instruction only to Adam.  Even hadn't
>been created yet.  So should she have believed everything Adam said?
>Does any person believe everything their mate tells them?
>
>> As the theists say, they disobeyed God.
>> Having said that, it's still a load of old crap, particularly when you
>> consider the contradiction of free will with an omniscient God.
>>
>
>What omniscient god?  Plenty of times the gods (notice the plural) admit
>they have to go down to earth to find out what their creations are
>doing.  Fundies has a distinct disadvantage in not being able to read
>what the bible really says.

They see it as a considerable *advantage*!!

For, without abject ignorance, they would not be fundies at all.

>And they do not pay attention to the parts that are translated properly.
>For instance every Christian (and most non Christians discussing the
>topic) will say that Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden.  Yet that is
>NOT what is contained in the scripture, not even in the abysmally
>translated KJV and its following alterations/editings.

Don't confuse the poor dears with mere "facts". It only forces
them to invent yet another ad hoc fallacy.

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