Sega9599 posted...
What do you mean then by spirituality? It seems to be very unscientific when I look for definitions of it. Some unseen power that connects everyone. And I think people liking the values of Christianity, but denying any existence of a god or heaven or anything like that doesn't make them Christian at all. That's like me saying I'm muslim, but I dont believe in muhammed or allah, I just like the traditions and think some teachings are good.
Again, it sort of depends on your interpretation. I've met Christians who say that what it means to be Christian is to follow the teachings of Jesus, but that they don't see him as a divine entity (so they view him more like a spiritual leader like Siddhartha Gautama). This shouldn't surprise anyone; there are so many different interpretations of Christianity it'll make your head spin.
It is very interesting to hear some people say they are atheist but still religious and ascribing to Buddhism, for example as above. I'd never heard of that before.
It's definitely less common in the Americas and Europe, I think.
Wait wait wait. I'm not super super familiar with the story of Adam and Eve, but didn't they already know about God as they had talked and could talk and ask stuff, and had been given instructions?
Yes, but how could they make use of any of that? They had no knowledge that would give them context. They literally did not know what was right and wrong, that disobeying God was bad. God tells them they'll die if they eat the fruit, but they don't know what that even means. And the snake tells Eve God lied to them, how is she supposed to know the snake is lying? She doesn't know anything. It's like getting mad at a toddler for sticking doing something because their older sibling told them to do it.
But this is what happens when people try to make grand statements about the stories being literal and about God being absolutely moral and correct all the time and stuff, it turns stories that are meant to be explanatory and thought-provoking into... really deranged tales about an all-powerful being that keeps doing things that seem completely ridiculous.