Jiang sharpens the point by saying original sin means the human heart became evil enough to want to kill God and become God ourselves.
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Kill God
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Our hearts became so evil and vicious that we wanted to kill God and become God ourselves. That is the issue, yes?"
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Students explicitly resist Jiang's wording by arguing that wanting equality with God or replacement of God does not automatically mean a desire to kill God.
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"...Our hearts became so evil and vicious that we wanted to kill God and become God ourselves. That is the issue, yes?"
"So, where did it say that we want to kill God? Like, this is monotheism, I know. But, like, where did it say we..."
"Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Just like she said, the thing... You don't want to kill him. Just, you can't replace them. You can't..."
"You want to kill God, okay? There's no way that you... There's nothing that you could do to appease God or make amends or..."
"...want to be better than God. Pride means you want to kill God. Therefore, it is inherently evil. Therefore, the heart inside you comes..."
"...the IEA. Remember, we try to become God, we try to kill God by eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge, okay? And..."
"...do that because you try to be God, you try to kill God. So you cannot ever compensate God for the evil that you've..."
"...our brain we clutter our brains with insignificant concerns when we kill god anything can be god okay so as i said anna karina..."
"the power to offer satisfaction by himself we want to kill God that was the original sin we wanted to eat that fruit become..."
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