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Originally posted by Yorick:
Fjlotsdale, I don't need a bible to tell me the earth was paradise. I just have to go over Pittwater in Sydney by boat to the opposite side of the Barenjoey Peninsular and lie on the sand looking up at the trees, hills, rocks and birds feeling warmed by the sun to know that I am in Paradise. Then I go back, sit in the middle of a traffic island surrounded by noisey cars, fume choked air, drug addicts and haunted crazies sleeping in excrement, rats and garbage, and I'm in comparitive hell. 
And no I'm not going to discuss the other stuff with you Fjlotsdale, because you will pull verses out of context of the larger picture. "Now I know" does not necessitate a removal of omniscience when viewed in the larger picture of Abrahams actions. It created a degree of trust and reliance in Abraham. The action was for Abrahams benefit, and our knowledge of Gods character, not Gods knowledge of events.
A new heaven and earth being metaphorical? Of course, how can we adequately conceptualise that which we have no experience of? Who knows what the afterlife will entail. It certainly will not be here, in this body, with these limitations.
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And here's me thinking you knew the bible, lol!
What version do you read, for pete's sake?
I DO NOT take scripture out of context either. I quote what it says, and frequently
point out the context as
you well know!!
Did you even bother reading the scriptures in Genesis I cited? All in context, too! And furthermore, if you read the other scriptures I cited you will realise that Paradise conditions does not just mean pretty places on the earth, but the WHOLE EARTH! No nasty grotty city slums ANYWHERE! EVERYBODY HAPPY.
And if your bible doesn't say so, Yorick, then you have a very strange version indeed.
I thought you actually BELIEVED the bible? Are you now telling me you do not?
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