Sad what Bible Inerrancy can do to a mind!

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When were taught evolution there is no accountability to the Sovereign Creator.

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Quite the opposite, perhaps. If we were created, then our flaws, potential or realized, and the natural evils of our situation, potential or realized, are the direct result of a knowing act of will by another.Perhaps God, in such a case, would rightly be accountable to us, for making us so, or for condemning us all on the account of one minor act which any loving father could forgive - and what loving father has not forgiven disobedience in his children?Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?[This message has been edited by Mister Pamboli, 04-25-2003]

I agree pretty much entirely. I guess what saddens me is that, taken as a symbolic myth of the nature of sin and suffering, the relationship of self-awareness to sin and suffering, and the relationship of human wrongdoing and "natural" evils, and how all this works in to morality, it is an astonishingly rich and moving parable. I personally find much of value in it. But taken literally, to require a literal personality who can knowingly condemn countless generations to suffering, it's just nonsense.