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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

I can accept metaphorical truths, but I'd argue that any resemblance of them is coincidental.

There is so much redundant or unnecessary nonsense in the bible, that some of it is bound to line up with some fundamental truth farther down the path of knowledge.

Obviously, whoever wrote genesis was not aware of evolution, and I'm not implying that you are proposing this insinuation as an explanation (it's just an example of what I mean).

Regardless of being unable to un-knowledge ourselves, one of the things I was pointing at was the absurdity of free-will as a concept.

God is supposedly omniscient, he knows the test will fail.

If you want to get metaphorical on that, you could probably spin it in some pretty weird ways.

Regardless, Christians cannot reconcile the literal claim that God is all-knowing from the notion of free-will.