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Originally Posted by rubicon
I also made reference to a good faith effort to pursue truth and unable to do so resulting in the loss of paradise seemed incongruent. The counter to this was well we have free will but if you choose wrong and steal you go to jail. Fair enough but what about the mentally challenged individual that was created by God does that soul pay a penalty also? I mean I can't know what I don't know. What about Adam and Eve and the billions upon billions of their descendants that came before 1AD? And what about the people who live today that have never been touched by Christianity such as the newly discovered bush people of the Amazon?
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Much of your angst against the bible and/or religion isn't unique. There are literally myriads of others just like you. I've heard these same arguments over and over. I used to have a blog site called "Kickin For Christ" where I would try my best to answer, guide and explain the reason for my faith and the journey it took me to get to where I am now.
It's like if I answer a question they would go onto another objection without commenting on the current one we had been discussing. This showed me they didn't really want an answer but to try and justify their unbelief.
So now you go to Adam, Eve, People of the Amazon and mentally challenged. The answers are all in that book I asked if you read and studied.
I'll take one of your objections for brevity: Adam and Eve and their descendants. They were saved the same way those AFTER the cross were saved. They looked FORWARD in anticipation to the Messiah who would come to take their sin from them and we look BACK in thanksgiving that HE did come and take away our sin from us.
Belief. Faith. We are saved by faith thru Grace.
The bible is like a big puzzle. As we put the pieces together we start to see a beautiful picture that was once before a jumbled mess in front of us. Piece by piece in the right place makes a world of difference. I've got a big part of the puzzle put together but still have a ways to go. I'm not finished...but I can tell you this...what I've been seeing these last 40 years of putting this puzzle together is astounding.