Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Amazon Says Its TERMINATING Parler, Social Platform Will be GONE By Tonight As Purge Accelerates" video.

@musiopath That's not true. Free will came from God. He placed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden and then told Adam and Eve not to eat of it. Don't eat the fruit or suffer the consequences. It was their choice. Just because Satan talked them into it, doesn't negate the choice they had before them or the one that they took. God gave them the choice. Satan influenced Eve to make the wrong choice.
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@jsn1252 You're changing the context of what the original poster was trying to say. He was talking within a Christian context and I replied within that context. You're basically changing the topic. If you stay within the Christian narrative, then God gave man the choice to eat of the tree or not. If you go outside that narrative, there may be other narratives but they are irrelevant to what we're talking about. We're talking about a specific belief system. You're talking about another belief system. It's an apples and oranges comparison.
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@musiopath I disagree with you on the free will part. Once God told Adam and Eve not to eat from that tree, choice was implied. "Eat anything but that. If you do....." Then it becomes the "to eat or not to eat" condition and there's even a consequence laid out. Satan disputes the consequence that God gave. That's true in our everyday choices. We choose based on what we believe the consequences will be. Someone may come along and give a new perspective on what a consequence could be and it's up to us to decide if that new perspective is correct or not. Eve chose to believe Satan. I agree with the rest of your comment, though. To easy to blame Satan. Ultimately, it's up to us to weigh up the facts and decide for ourselves a proper course of action. "The Devil made me do it" is a coward's way out. Take responsibility for your bad actions. It's the only way to mitigate the odds that you'll do it again.
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