Are we in the precursor to what becomes Hell?

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Satan was allowed in the garden because he was poking his head out of the gateway.
 
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I observed all those same things in the waters, and didn't need billion dollar colliders to do it. All they prove is that the smaller you go with base subject materials they still do the same thing. From solution to molecule to atom to subatomic particle, same results. Common sense tells ya that though.

This is not true at all, at a molecular level all hell breaks loose. Particles behave like waves, go backward in time, appear from nowhere and Newtons laws of a physical universe completely fall apart. This has many scientists questioning the nature of reality itself and if we live in a simulated universe projected by conscience. At a sub atomic level science is staring god right in the face.
 
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Satan was allowed in the garden because he was poking his head out of the gateway.
Are you are saying the Serpent that temps Eve was allowed into Eden because the tree represented a gateway between heaven (Eden) and Hell (Earth)?
 
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Are you are saying the Serpent that temps Eve was allowed into Eden because the tree represented a gateway between heaven (Eden) and Hell (Earth)?
Basically ..I can't imagine a different reason for him to be allowed in there.
 
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God had already cast Satan out, but God doesn't create evil. The choice to chose evil over God (for humans) was this fallen reality through the tree. God used something that was already fallen to be the choice that allows Free Will.
 

Aerials1978

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Does being made in God's image intrinsically cause free will and eternal life? Can we think somewhat like God because of this?

Is this why souls in Hell have to live forever? We can't complain about it because it is what allows us to think with an infinite soul.

Are we given a similar choice to Adam and Eve but from within the fallen reality they caused us to be born in? Are we choosing Jesus over the sin that is possible here?

If Adam and Eve were created physical, why wasn't the Son of God physical before original sin?
What are the scientific requirements to be one with God? I don't think a physical body can achieve it. Jesus is a special case because he is God and can do anything.

If angel sin isn't physical, was the tree of knowledge connected to the sin of Satan? Did it represent the free will choice they had? Was Adam not created with knowledge of evil because that would have caused this fallen reality without disobeying God?
First, you would have to define what sin and evil are and how they directly effected creation as a whole.
 

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Some questions that no one knows the answers to. We can have fun with speculation and Science to fill in the blanks. Before the fall they could eat from any tree but one. Would not that include the tree of life? Its clear the Father had a plan from the start . In all creation there is no one like man. Even angels don't understand this love the Father has for man nor this relationship we CAN have with Him. I was going to say this song says it "What this world needs".

I was going to say is Christ became His creation to save it. What this world needs. A Father that will love them in their time of need.. A savior that will rescue a spirit that will lead..

Its not what man was before the fall.. its like looking at it all and.. look He left heaven became His creation took the sin of the world.. where I gladly get lost and stuck on :)
 
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Jesus said God's Kingdom is all around us but we are blind to it. It's because we have this view of the fallen reality.
Does Satan have authority here because he was the first to sin and a top ranking angel?
 

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Before the fall they could eat from any tree but one. Would not that include the tree of life?
They could eat from any tree but commanded not to eat of one. A&E did not eat of the Tree of Life.
 
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Our eyes were open to Satan's perception because he was the first to cause disorder.

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Magenta

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Basically ..I can't imagine a different reason for him to be allowed in there.
Oh ye of little imagination :giggle::geek:

Try incorporating more Scripture into your narrative.
 
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If unbelievers understood the situation we are in, they would look for THE WAY out of this mess.
 

Lisamn

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If unbelievers understood the situation we are in, they would look for THE WAY out of this mess.
I’m not sure if they would...
Revelation‬ ‭9:18-21‬ ‭​
A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm. The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.
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Oh ye of little imagination :giggle::geek:

Try incorporating more Scripture into your narrative.
You get to pick from two scenarios, Satan was at a gateway or he is somehow attached to anything fallen. The latter is extremely scary to think about.
 

Magenta

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You get to pick from two scenarios, Satan was at a gateway or he is somehow attached to anything fallen. The latter is extremely scary to think about.
I gave you the Biblical scenario.
 
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You know how God doesn't create evil? Well, how does He give us Free Will without having something evil for us to choose from? What was available to God that was already evil?
 

Magenta

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Free will is a misnomer, since the will is constrained by many factors.
Self will on the other hand, is apparent from front to back of the Bible.
Man's will is either aligned with God's, or it is not.


Man's will being constrained does not mean he is not morally responsible for choices he makes.
 

Magenta

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The most important choice a person will make in life is how they answer this question:

"But what about you?" Jesus asked. "Who do you say I am?"

It will have nothing to do with waves and particles :geek:
 
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It's more than disobeying God ..it's taking on an evil perception that really got us bad. We chose to follow Satan into this fallen reality.
 

Magenta

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It's more than disobeying God ..it's taking on an evil perception that really got us bad. We chose to follow Satan into this fallen reality.
Man's choice caused corruption, not Satan's. You waffle on this point.

And it really can all be boiled down simply, to disobeying God.

Mankind continues to elevate their will above His.