Are religions manmade and natural or supernaturally based?

Hi DL, Where does the Bible say they were stupid?The man named all the animals in Genesis 2:19-20. There was a lady in Africa that spent 40 years trying to name all the animals in Africa.Where does the Bible say they were blind?The man's job was to keep and dress the Garden. Genesis 2:15 He could see the animals as he named them. He was also able to see the woman when God brought her to him. Genesis 2:23 Nobody nor God makes you believe what you believe. Yet if you continue on the path you have chosen you will spend eternity in a lake of fire with that serpent you like to refer too in the garden.The man was given a direct command, that command was never given to the woman, although the man did relay it to her.

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Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

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Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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Now this man was allowed to eat the fruit of every tree except one. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The man knew good because he walked and talked with God in the garden. Genesis 2:16, 17, 22The man did not know evil until he willfully took the fruit his wife offered him and did eat. Their eyes were not opened to see evil until the man had eaten the fruit. They were not opened when the woman ate the fruit. Your conclusion is false.The man had free will to eat the fruit or to not eat the fruit. If he had not had the choice he would not have eaten the fruit. He and his beautiful wife would still be in the garden enjoying all of the gardens pleasures as everything in the garden was perfect until the man chose to eat the fruit which was disobedience to God's command and that disobedience polluted the entire universe with the penalty of sin which is death.Mankind must die, a physical death. Those who are not born again will die a spiritual death separated from God for eternity.The universe and earth must die as they have to be purified by fire.Then God will resume creating by creating a new universe and earth. You or I have never had the choice the man that was formed from the dust of the ground had. The choice he made brought the penalty of death to everything.The only choice you or I have is to accept the offer of a free full pardon that God has offer to all mankind that will accept it. The man formed from the dust of the ground was sinless and disobeyed God which was sin. Eating the fruit was not the sin. Choosing to disobey God was the sin. Because of that sin all are under the penalty of sin.

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John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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He that believeth on him is not condemned.
He that believeth not is condemned already. Don't have to do anything to become condemned.Then John gives the reason mankind is condemned.
Because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.So a person who does not believe in God is condemned already. Because if you don't believe in Him you will never trust Him to save you.God Bless,

Hi DL, Not in the way you think.He is the energy that holds the atoms together that compose your body.I think that energy is what a lot of folks call dark energy and dark matter.As well as the everything in the universe.

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Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

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1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

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The definition of the Hebrew word וישׁבת that is translated rested is: to ceaseSo God ceased all his work and creating on the seventh day. He has not started creating since that day began. He will in the future create a new heaven and earth after this one melts with fervent heat. 2 Peter 3:12, Revelation 21:1.All you showed me was what some evolutionist claim is a mutation gone wrong.God created none of the things you presented. Mutations do happen.I hope that cleared it up for you.God Bless,

ICANTHow dishonestly selective reading.Typical Christian."Where does the Bible say they were stupid?"If the bible has to tell you every detail then you are not thinking of what you are reading.The tree of knowledge of good and evil is basically the tree of all knowledge because all knowledge is subject to good and evil.How could A & E not have been stupid and innocent without any knowledge?Prove this for yourself. Find anything that is not subject to good and evil.-------"Nobody nor God makes you believe what you believe. Yet if you continue on the path you have chosen you will spend eternity in a lake of fire with that serpent you like to refer too in the garden."Thanks for the childish threat. Was that lie used on you to make you believe that serpents can talk human? Are you that delusional?Here child. Some information for you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6I5VSZVqc------------"that disobedience polluted the entire universe with the penalty of sin which is death."Wow. Aren't we special and ever so powerful. --- in your delusion.---------------"The only choice you or I have is to accept the offer of a free full pardon that God has offer to all mankind that will accept it."Free?You give no value to a human life?It is not free when you have to sell your soul to Satan.Human sacrifice is evil and your God demanding one and accepting one is evil.You trying to profit from that evil is evil. Do just a bit of thinking and you will agree.Imagine you have two children. One of your children does something wrong — say it curses, or throws a temper tantrum, or something like that. In fact, say it does this on a regular basis, and you continually forgive your child, but it never seems to change.Now suppose one day you’ve had enough, you need to do something different. You still wish to forgive your child, but nothing has worked. Do you go to your second child, your good child, and punish it to atone for the sins of the first?In fact, if you ever saw a parent on the street punish one of their children for the actions of their other child, how would you react? Would you support their decision, or would you be offended? Because God punished Jesus -- his good child -- for the sins of his other children.Interestingly, some historical royal families would beat their slaves when their own children did wrong — you should not, after all, ever beat a prince. The question is: what kind of lesson does that teach the child who actually did the harm? Does it teach them to be a better person, to stop doing harm, or does it teach them both that they won't themselves be punished, and also that punishing other people is normal? I know that's not a lesson I would want to teach my children, and I suspect it's not a lesson most Christians would want to teach theirs. So why does God?For me, that’s at least one significant reason I find Jesus’ atonement of our sin to be morally repugnant — of course, that’s assuming Jesus ever existed; that original sin actually exists; that God actually exists; etc.Having another innocent person suffer for the wrongs you have done, --- so that you might escape responsibility for having done them, --- is immoral.Do you agree?
If not, please show how it is morally and legally good to punish the innocent instead of the guilty, bearing in mind that all legal systems think that punishing the guilty is what is justice.Regards
DL

ICANTSo now man is a creator just like God was.In fact, we are more powerful as creators than God since we can reproduce and he cannot.So much for omnipotence. That is just one of the many lies your delusion helps you believe.Regards
DL

Usually there is no one person to blame when a thread spirals out of control. One moderator responsibility is to nip such spiraling in the bud. I'll just cite a couple anonymous quotes and ask that it stop: I'll issue short suspensions if this isn't cleaned up in future posts.Edited by Admin, : Grammar.

A table is pretty neutral to me.

BliyaalNot if it only has 3 legs. Then it is evil.Regards
DL

No, it's a broken table, not an evil table.I hope you are joking but I'm not. You asked for an exemple of anything that is not subject to good and evil and I gave you one. Now what you have to do is to explain how a table could be good or evil.Should be interesting...

There's no problem with having some fun, but if there's a serious point about the nature of tables then it should be made clearly, or if it's an attempt at humor then that should be made clear.

The energy that holds atoms together is neither dark energy nor dark matter. I don't think that matters for your argument.

Hi NoNukes, The dark energy and dark matter was in reference to what hold's the universe together as it is made up of atoms also.God Bless,

Hi DL, What says it is all knowledge?
The man had named all the animals, called the female, woman and had talks with God if only God speaking to him. He knew language and could speak. He was not stupid as you say. No childish threat, just a promise from God. God did not send someone else to die to restore the relationship with mankind. He came Himself.

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Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

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It was prophesied the child would be God with us. So No God did not send some innocent human to be punished but came to buy mankind out of the bondage the man formed from the dust of the ground has sold mankind into. He came Himself to be the kinsman redeemer.God Bless,

Hi DL, Mankind in Genesis 1:27 was created in the image of God so why would he not be able to create?When I look around at all the things mankind has made in the universe and on the earth I would say mankind is prolific in producing things. Mankind can only reproduce because God made it possible for a male to have sperm and a female to have an egg that when combined would produce a human being. He also provided all the duct work that made it possible.We can not create anything because to do so we would have to produce the energy and mass to create something out of. We can only take what exists and rearrange it into things.God Bless,Edited by ICANT, : No reason given.

BliyaalSemantics.On the scale of good and evil, there is no broken.Regards
DL

AdminThe theory that all is subject to good and evil and that the tree of knowledge represent the knowledge of everything is quite old.I have yet to find anything to refute that idea.Some leeway for language has to be given as I just showed our friend but the basic idea is quite sound and so far irrefutable.Free Online Bible Classes | What is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?Regards
DL