“Well, Christ is also referred to” and so forth and so on....
I was responding to rface who wrote “Christ did NOT say the Bible was the word of God.”
Of course He did. But the new testament was written after His death, correct?
Anywho, God made us sentient beings (or we helped ourselves to that gift in the garden) so we could read and understand.
But He didn’t cite chapter and verse, as He could with the old books, because they were still in the heads of his disciples.
By that I mean he didn’t say, “Well, in Book so and so, subchapter viii. I urged any without sin to cast the first stone.” Because He was busy doing all these things.
Okey dokey?
Nice sermon though . . .
God made us sentient beings, intelligent and free (that's a large part of what being created "in the image and likeness of God" is all about.)
What happened in the garden --- sin --- was not enlightenment. It was a huge stumble into stupidity, a darkening and weakening of the human intellect and will. It resulted in something like a worsening series of genetic defects, affecting the whole human race in a very unfortunate manner.