How do you know that the tree of good and evil was a test?
In my eyes it was merely a bit of information required for man to advance. If we did not know about evil, how could there be any good? If we do not know what is evil, how do we know what to avoid?
Therefore I do not think of the tree of good and evil as a test: "can we stay in paradise forever". What nonsense! Why would God want us to just kick back and enjoy ourselves?
What meaning would life then have?
God wouldn't certainly put out identical religions everywhere! As there are lots of religions here, accomodating every culture but still giving out the same spiritual truths to everyone, there must be different religions everywhere in the universe. Put the coran and bible next to each other, study, and you will see that they have no contradictions, and are identical in all the spiritual truths said. Only the laws differ because spritual truths must be interperted in different ways for different situations.
Surely an alien civilization would have their own religion, and surely that religion differs from the ones we know, but if God exists as we know Him, the spiritual truths taught must be essentially the same.
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How do you know that the tree of good and evil was a test? In my eyes it was merely a bit of information required for man to advance. If we did not know about evil, how could there be any good? If we do not know what is evil, how do we know what to avoid? Therefore I do not think of the tree of good and evil as a test: "can we stay in paradise forever". What nonsense! Why would God want us to just kick back and enjoy ourselves? What meaning would life then have?
God wouldn't certainly put out identical religions everywhere! As there are lots of religions here, accomodating every culture but still giving out the same spiritual truths to everyone, there must be different religions everywhere in the universe. Put the coran and bible next to each other, study, and you will see that they have no contradictions, and are identical in all the spiritual truths said. Only the laws differ because spritual truths must be interperted in different ways for different situations. Surely an alien civilization would have their own religion, and surely that religion differs from the ones we know, but if God exists as we know Him, the spiritual truths taught must be essentially the same.