Dominant Force in West Today According to Dennis Prager is Fear of Left

I'm still waiting for you to present anything resembling a challenge. Faith is the last person you should listen to. Shame on you.

Again you depict a very puny god, one who can't control his own house without exterminating every threat.

And why not? But you're the one who says the message isn't important. A large part of that teaching is love thine enemy:

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Matthew 5:44-45 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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How can you love your enemies if you leave them out in the cold? According to Matthew, it pretty much is.

How would you stop her? Teenagers do those things. You can't physically stop them. You could kick them out of the house, which seems to be what you're suggesting.Most human parents try to be a good example - your God might want to try that.And most human parents try to make their children aware of the consequences of their actions. Tell them not to eat the fruit and the first thing they'll do is eat the fruit - and then they'll have the knowledge of good and evil.

You pick the one that needs a home. Often that is the one with behaviour problems.

That doesn't work. Jesus told us to pray, "Our Father," so we are already his children. I don't think the "adoption" mentioned in your apologist quotes is what we think of adoption today. You're not setting the bar very high.

There are a lot of discrepancies between what the Bible says and what "Christianity" says and what you say. You're talking about one minority cult of Christianity.

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Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

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Of course sin entered the world by one man because there was only one man in the story. That's how we know it's only a story, because there has never been a time when there was only one man in the world. Biology just doesn't work that way.As for death, even in the story we know Adam and Eve didn't die a physical death that same day. You claim they died a "spiritual" death but why do you stretch that to them causing physical death of animals?

I had to quote this. I know you've never heard of irony but I think it's funny that you have to misrepresent the Bible as "Byble" to talk about misrepresenting the Bible.

Well, a Protestant would be a liberal Catholic. Few people understand Christianity less than you do.

The tree was guarded to prevent them from having eternal life - i.e. they did not have eternal life - they were subject to death right from the beginning.

Clearly.But that's not the point. The point is that the tree was guarded to prevent them from obtaining eternal life ("lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever" Genesis 3:22). They did not have eternal life. They didn't know about death until they had the knowledge of good and evil but death was in the world. They would have died anyway many years later.

I know what Phat said but that's not what the Bible says. Eternal life was something to be obtained by eating from the Tree of Life. Thus it could not have been something they already had.

That's complete fiction, made up, unscriptural. There is no reason to think they had ever eaten from the Tree of Life.

That isn't "every" reason. It's barely one possible reason. But there is no reason to think they ate from every tree except the one forbidden tree. At best, it's a completely unsupported speculation. There is certainly no justification for making a whole doctrine of it.