Rob writes:
Well then you never understood Christianity. That's the whole point of Christianity. That reality/God (a being, not a concept), created a world that was perfect like Him. And then one of his creatures in particular decided to try a different way of doing things at the suggestion of yet another.
We, in effect, became partially seperated from reality.
Fascinating! You're right to say that I never understood Christianity if your view of it is correct. I had no idea that our species being partially separated from reality was one of its doctrines. Presumably this also applies to snakes? Whereas other animals, plants and anything else around us, are still fully part of reality.
It must be a strange feeling for Christians, being partially unreal.
Yet isn't all life, in your opinion, intelligently designed? And isn't your reality, your God, definitely not intelligently designed? Wouldn't that mean that all life was completely divorced from reality, anyway, even before our ancestors mistakenly ate from the tree of knowledge?
The Deists, presumably, just have their God creating reality. That seems a lot more straightforward to me. I'm not a Deist, but at least, in their view, I'm entirely real. And for them, presumably, knowledge is perfectly O.K., even a good thing.