Rotten apples. You throw out the rotten ones to salvage the few good ones still left. God explains the same thing when Abraham was told Sodom was going to be destroyed. Humanity reached the point of no return. If you actually read the account, you'd know.
I asked her in an earlier post if she believed the universe is 6000 years old and she said yes. She also says that all animals were herbivores ("vegans") before Adam ate from the forbidden tree. There was no death, pain or suffering before the caveman and his wife ate from the wrong fruit tree, after being tempted by a talking snake.
You should go back and reread her post. She said all animals were vegetarian at first and only became predators after the fall from Eden. Many dinosaurs were undoubtably predators. That means they would have to have been around at the same time as man.
The Genesis account relates that God told Adam and Eve that the one fruit they should not bring into their lives was the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve thought this over and decided the knowledge of good and evil was too enticing to pass up. They deliberately chose to have this knowledge. God had knowledge of good and evil, so why shouldn't they become like God and also have that knowledge of good and evil.
Even if that story is true, what kind of petty hateful vindictive god does that? Punish Adam and Eve if you must, but what purpose is served by punishing all mankind from that point on for the actions of those two. Was God too weak and ineffectual to prevent future generations from gaining that knowledge?
Adam and Eve represent all of mankind. Why punish those who choose to know something? A choice was made, and there were consequences for that choice--just as there are for any choice that is made. Mankind isn't being punished for choosing knowledge of good and evil. Mankind is living with the consequences for wanting to have this knowledge. You didn't answer the question of whether or not you, personally, would choose to have no knowledge of good and evil. Have you contemplated that?
Don't expect them to think critically or make any sense,
A loving forgiving god, one that is worthy of praise, wouldn't punish blameless people for something that happened before they were born. That's just hateful and vindictive. No, I haven't contemplated that, for the same reason I haven't contemplated teaching a unicorn to tap dance.
Adam and Eve were given the choice to choose what 'fruit' would be part of mankind's existence. Your philosophy is that this was the wrong choice, and God should have punished them--but no one else. That is not Biblical philosophy. Biblical philosophy lays out the possible courses of actions first humans had to choose for all of mankind. God counseled them against gaining the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve thought about this, but in the end decided knowing both good and evil like God did was preferable. God said, Okay, but this is what mankind will face for selecting this option. No fear, however, because I will be with my people to guide them in the way of salvation.
This is probably the biggest obstacle that prevents people like you from believing the universe was intentionally created for the express purpose of producing beings that know and create.
Or maybe it's because you need to experience the good and the bad to have knowledge of good and evil.
I've observed you and your arguments enough to know you can't find one good reason for why evil exists and that you consistently over estimate evil and consistently under estimate good.
You are an atheist. You don't believe in good or evil. Your worldview is predicated on the satisfaction of material needs and primitive instincts.
Then your life has never been anything but evil and suffering? I am so sorry. That's terrible.
