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Originally Posted by FireFly
It's easy enough for us to look at African people and give them rules and teach them how to grow stuff and clean water and all that kind of stuff, however it's much different when we try to put it into practise. When we do, we realize just how difficult those living conditions are.
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Come on now.
"look at African people and give them rules and teach them how to grow stuff".
No offense, but that sounds like something a Liverpudlian chimney sweep might say. In 1825.
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Originally Posted by FireFly
It's similar for God. He gave the Jews rules for how to worship Him the best, and then He noticed they were having a very difficult time living up to those rules. I mean really, all the people in the world and he's got Job and Noah? He had to question why so many of His people fell away from Him. Also, He didn't want them to be seperate from Him, so He sent His Son to check it out. What His Son discovered was that life is hard! All those rules on top of just living day to day was ridiculously hard, and He wanted to make it easier to see the kingdom, so He changed the rules.
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So let me get this straight. An all-powerful being, the creator of the sun, moon, stars and everything else, lays out a cryptic set of rules in some book then impregnates a teenage girl with a kid who will "check it out" and then die a painful death so we can all continue to break the rules that God laid out in the first place?
I don't get it.