Aug 9, 2007, 10:04 AM
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Actually, Sassafrass, that's a rather common theological approach these days.
The argument goes that the root of sin is the assumption by lesser beings of the role which they have no right to hold; in particular, deciding who lives and who dies. These are decisions only god can make, as its pretty much his world, as well as him having omniscience and supposedly a "good" nature and plan.
Sass, you seem to be of the opinion that someone who is transcendent to this universe, much less humanity, should be subject to the same restrictions applied to it. Fairness and all that, right?
However, that "do as I say, not as I do" statement doesn't entirely hold up in the whole schema of the christian perspective, because I guess Jesus came, in part, to say "ok dumasses, here's how you do it."
Now, I don't entirely buy the whole argument(or many christian arguments these days) on other grounds. But to say that Hydra is just grasping at straws to explain away inconsistencies is kind of unfair.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by packrat; Aug 9, 2007 at 10:25 AM.
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