I figure the title of the thread really doesn't matter much, because if it follows the other threads in this forum, after the first page or two, it will no longer bare any similarity to the subject heading anyway.
This thread is tasked to answer 2 questions I've brought up in the past and have yet to recieve an answer for, of any kind.
Question One:
Someone said recently that God cannot abide the presence of Sin, so we must be washed clean of it e're we enter heaven.
OK. Fine.
My question is - if God so hates sin that He cannot be near it, why did He create it?
OR, being all powerful, why did He allow it's creation?
Question Two:
Since God is all powerful and all knowing, why did He place the Tree of the Knowledge of Good an Evil in the garden?
If He is all knowing, then He knew the outcome beforehand, so that means He set them up.
Doesn't it?
Answer either, or both, or neither, as it suits you.
These are just a couple of the major sticking points for me when it comes to accepting that the bible is the literal inerrant word of God.
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