Why do atheists use the Bible to blame God for people dying when it's because of original sin that we die?

Question

If an atheist would read the Bible they would know that it says in the beginning, God created man in God's eternal image. That means to live forever. Adam and Eve had it made in the shade. They had everything they could want, they could eat from every tree in the garden except one. But Adam and Eve gave in to the temptation of the devil, and that original sin is what caused a curse not only on the whole human race but even on the earth as well. That's why there are natural disasters.

When sin entered the world it disrupted the natural order of everything in the world. But all of us do still live forever. It's just that some live forever rotting in Hell while others live forever, glorified and reigning with God in Heaven. Hell is a bad place because God is the source of all love and life, so to be separated from Him is to be separated from love and life. Hell is so because it's eternal separation from God. In other words Hell is eternal separation from everything that is good. Hell is Hell because it is devoid of love and all those who are in Hell are devoid of love, so there won't be any friendships to be found there only cursing, hate, and despair.

Answer 1

Most Christian skeptics and critics (not all) really don't have a clue about what they criticize. Atheists often create strawmen to knock down.

Answer 2

So this god creates us ignorant of any good or evil right? We also lack any knowledge because we have not been given that either. So this god then puts a tree in a garden with people who CAN NOT according to this load of rubbish know any better and tells them not to eat from it? Why have it there at all? Why not explain to them why not?



Just HOW according to this rubbish can it be a sin IF they had no knowledge of good and evil to eat from a tree, when they did not know what good or evil was, they had NO WAy according to this to know what this god said was good or not and can not have know it was wrong to eat from it.



So this god, clearly incompetent, creates a situation for which was bound to fail and know we are being blamed for it?



What a crock.



Its also does not prove a good. Evil exists because people are jerks.



?But trying to make up some absurd fictional character and say we deserve bad things because we managed to piss it off for a situation that it created in the first place is lunacy.



There is no god, and you have to prove there is a god BEFORE you can claim it wrote a book or is pissed off about anything.

Answer 3

"God created man in God's eternal image. That means to live forever. "



Nope. Read it again. After they got caught eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, God decides to expel them from the Garden. Why? Because if they ate from the OTHER tree, the Tree of Life, they would become immortal, and be just like gods.



Genesis 3:24

So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Answer 4

Stop whining. You say, "it says in the beginning, God created man in God's eternal image. That means to live forever." But in the image of refers to appearance. A photograph of you is made in your image. But that tells you nothing about how long a photograph lives or if it is alive. It tells you what it looks like.



The Bible is a collection of tales from the early days of a group of people who came to call themselves Hebrew. Atheists refer to it, only to show believers, who pretend the that Bible is somehow stories from a hypothetical God that they are imagining, that this book does not make sense and can be used to defend many contradictory arguments. If you want atheists to stop talking about the Bible, then get all the Christians to quit quoting it to them.



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Regards,



John Popelish

Answer 5

If God wills things, it stands to reason God willed Eve and Adam to partake of the forbidden fruit. Since God plans/wills everything, having these two sin was part of his plan and his will, was it not?



Hell is also a Christian concept and there is noooooo mention of it in the Old Testament.

Answer 6

We don't blame your favorite unreal friend of nothing we don't believe he exist... and your rant just proof that the tree of knowledge deal was highly overrated by your invisible friend...

We don't believe in any god and the word athos was used 5 centuries before any christian or muslim exist...those atheist were speaking the truth about the unreality of Zeus...

Answer 7

Your deft polemics have trapped us on unfamiliar territory and will no doubt cause many of us to convert to the belief that the universe was created and run by a manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic, sexist, homophobic, ego-maniacal monster who is guaranteed to love us as he sends those who fail to fail to sufficiently grovel to Hell.

Answer 8

Your extremism is harming christianity not helping it!



Anti atheism is doing so much damage to Christianity that it is in reality anti Christianity – David G Manley

Answer 9

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

~ Gene Roddenberry

Answer 10

Everything you said is called dogma. You believe it because that is what you were told. That does not mean it is true.

Answer 11

We don't. You seem quite confused.



Oh, and since there isn't a shred of evidence to show any of your claims correct, making them is rather silly.



Peace.

Answer 12

You seem to come from the opinion that those fables mean anything at all.

Answer 13

All i see are a bunch of false, dogmatic, and ignorant claims here.

Answer 14

The stupid is too much to endure.