When I was ten years old, I got to reading Genesis, and guess what - before any kind of worldly influences of any meaning, I understood Genesis.
That's because presumably by age 10 you knew how to read English. As we all know about most children, they're quite taken in by fanciful and enchanted stories.
It's a matter of studying the bible, as a "whole" thing, and asking; "If God is behind this WHOLE thing, then what is his message?"
The message is sin.
Have you ever lied?
Have you ever stolen?
Have you ever cursed God or took His name in vain?
Have you ever commited adultery, even in your heart? Have you lusted ever before?
Have you ever been angry at your brother?
Nobody has ever gotten around the fact that they have all done wrong in life, and even though the bible tells us about a Holy God that cannot withstand sin, people still believe they can enter his presence and live.
It was God that imparted the sinful behavior to begin with. He doesn't make us sin directly, so the story goes, but deductive reasoning tells us he gives us the ability and even the desire to sin, then says if we would just follow him he'd make us clean. That is extortion.
"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Samual Adams
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