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[bookish_dragon]

Finished Paradise Lost. The whole 'I am God and I will make Adam suffer because I can'-vibe put me off a bit, but Milton did have a way with words. What's the use of free will if you know beforehand that man will falter and disobey you? And I am a bit miffed with the way Eve is upposed to be a good and submissive wife to Adam, but that's 20th-century me looking at a 17th-century book.

Staying with religious literature, I'm now reading The Divine Comedy by Dante. He's already made it to Paradise.

Maybe after this I should dig up Mel's copy of Mere Christianity, for some religious non-fiction. I think I could use it after Medieval views on the One True Church.

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[huinesoron.livejournal.com]

God gave Adam and Eve one commandment -- Go forth and multiply -- and one piece of advice -- don't eat the fruit, or you'll die. In order to fulfil the commandment, they had to disregard the advice. Thus the Fall, from perfection to imperfection, immortality to mortality, and unchangeability to advancement and child-bearing, was a result of obeying God's command, at the expense of paradise. Now that's a sacrifice that few can match -- giving up immortality in paradise so the rest of us can live? I can think of one other on a similar level (Hello, Jesus, nice to see you in the conversation at last), but that's it.

... that's the first time I've written a comment that exceeded the length limit. I'm sorry about that.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

*bit overwhelmed.* Lemme think this over. Thanks. :)

I'm not familiar with the BoM. Why does it upset some then?

[huinesoron.livejournal.com]

BoM = Book of Mormon. Even mentioning it in an argument tends to bring out the 'omg not scripture!!!' types (because nothing can be added to scripture, you see. That's why Christianity only uses the five books of Moses [/sarcasm]).