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Date: November 16, 2011 09:36AM
This may not be a thread for Christians or for those wobbling in their faith in Christianity.
Seriously. Years ago when I was contemplating Christianity, and thinking some of the doctrines through and doing a little research, I was all ready to give up on Christianity.
The Garden of Eden story reminded me of the Greek myth of Pandora opening the box and letting out all the evil and suffering into the world. Eve eats the apple and wham bam, that is the reason for all the evil and suffering in our world. In both societies where those stories originated, the woman gets blamed for all the evil that we experience today.
I had a hard time dealing with the doctrine of original sin. This doctrine especially bothered me when I had children. To think that an innocent child is born sinful to me ...it is sinful to even think that.
So all the people in the world are born with sin nature, with rebellion in their hearts, as being a displeasure to God, that we all need saving because of what two people did in a garden thousands of years ago??
Not fair. I don't buy it.
I sat in church and had to confess I was a sinner, in thought word and deed every day I offended my God.
Well whose stinking fault is that anyway?? I didn't make the world, I didn't create the garden, I didn't make the dang stupid rules. I didn't let Satan loose on a couple of people that didn't know good from evil (sooooooooooo how could they make the right decision if they didn't know good from evil???? hmmmm? can someone explain that? How does a just God expect anyone to make the right decision without knowing good from bad? Oh that's right, all they had to do was obey? Obey. Put a tree that is beautiful in the middle of the garden and say don't touch it. Yeah, not too mean, unjust and just plain wrong).
Yeah, so while I was rejected the tenets like that from Christianity along comes Mormonism with a much better view on that garden scene. It was supposed to happen.
*rolls my eyes*
It doesn't matter, all theories I have heard just doesn't cut the mustard to explain all the suffering, all the pain, all the abuse, all the crapola that has gone on in this world for ever.
Freedom of will, choice, fall of man, man's disobedience that affected a whole world that didn't even exist at the so called time Adam and Eve ate the apple...or fruit or mango or whatever, it just doesn't cut the mustard that everyone since Adam and Eve has had to pay for what they did.
Then I find out, original sin is not a doctrine that existed in Judaism. Nope. It was introduced by that Paul aka Apostle then was expounded on by a second century bishop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sinSo no, it was the other way round for me. I thought Mormonism would do what it said would do and fill in the holes in Christian theology. It didn't. It just created more holes by mixing their own doctrine in with it. The LDS church just does a linguistic gymnastic on the doctrine of the fall but basically stick to the same 'the whole world suffers because of it.'http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Original_Sin
Oi vei.
The point is I did it backwards. Now where do I go? Don't worry I am taking Stray Mutt's advice and I am working through this then forgetting it and if there are any answers, they'll come sliding through.