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Originally Posted by Trapped
What I'm looking for are specific Bible stories or verses to refute this twisted claim that God doesn't care for right and wrong. I feel myself getting Hulk-furious about this (as the all-caps may indicate....sorry) and I need some input from others to help eviscerate this thought in me once and for all.
Thanks for any help.
Trapped
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What about the Bible story in Genesis about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Obviously their teaching is based on an erroneous understanding of this story.
1. God created this tree and in God there is no darkness at all. The tree is not evil, it is good. No one denies that it is a tree to make one wise.
So Witness Lee calling it the "tree of death" is designed to equate it with evil, but it is impossible for God to create something that is evil.
When Adam and Eve ate from this tree they were violating the only commandment of God that they had. If God is going to give us free will that means there has to be the possibility that we would violate His commands. Therefore you cannot have free will without this tree.
But this creates a problem. If you have free will you can also have Hitler. This tree solves that problem. The minute someone chooses to violate God's command their is a major paradigm shift. We go from being eternal souls to having a time limit. 70 years has been the standard life expectancy since that day.
Now I have asked numerous people and I have yet to find anyone who feels killing someone in a video game is "evil" or "criminal". So do the math, if 2/613,000 is so minor as to not be evil, why is 70yrs/eternity any different?
The Bible says not to fear the person that can kill the body but not the soul, rather fear the one that after the body is killed can then cast the soul into eternal perdition. From the viewpoint of eternity your physical body is no more real than the pixels in the video game.
But it is a tree that makes you wise. Just like the computer simulation of flying an airplane is used to train pilots, chess programs are used to train chess players, etc. No one in this life, not WL, not PL, not Hitler can harm your soul or spirit. They can only harm things that are temporal and will disappear. Yet, in this life we can get trained to rule and reign with Christ, to know the difference between good and evil.