2006-06-16 17:59:05 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There was no such event. It was a bunch of old men sitting around one evening in 2006 b.c., and asking how do they control the crazy teenagers and so it was decided to fabricate a bunch of stories to get them to listen to their elders....times haven't changed much since then.
2006-06-16 18:06:44 · answer #1 · answered by MillwoodsGal 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
According to the myth, God didn't want Adam and Eve to become like one of the gods by knowing good and evil.
Genesis 3:5
Genesis 3:22
2006-06-17 01:17:49 · answer #2 · answered by T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would not be able to have them in His presence if they knew the difference because that would mean they would know what sin is (evil, or the absence of good) through disobeying God. If they sinned then that would mean they would become imperfect. Once they became imperfect, God could not have them in His presence, so he commanded them to leave Eden. Before they ate the apple, Adam and Eve were pure and sinless; they walked and talked directly with God in Eden every day.
2006-06-17 01:09:30 · answer #3 · answered by Me in Canada eh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because mankind was based on freewill. By not knowing something all temptation is gone. The best way to protect your children from something is raising them in a place where is does not exists. (You don't have to worry about guns or drugs if they are not around to be had). The same thing goes with sin. The perfect protection was to raise God's children in a place where there was none, the garden of Eden. Free will was still there but sin was not a matter of free will. Once mankind knew of evil then freewill allowed him to take this path (which he did & continues to do). It was done for mankinds own protection.
2006-06-17 01:10:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obdience was what the lord wanted when he instructed adam and eve not to eat the apple, just as every parent wants first when they have their own child to raise, an obedient child, grows into to a responsible adult. The lord does not make mistakes, he knew and knows there would-and is evil in this world, if we are obident, it is a lot easier to resist.
2006-06-17 01:11:01 · answer #5 · answered by Noreen H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't that he didn't want them to know the difference between good and evil. It was that he wanted them to have choices to make. He gave them two opportunities for choice.
God placed them in the garden and gave them free reign of it all, except for that one tree, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They could choose to obey him and remain in their ignorance and innocense, or they could choose to eat the fruit of the tree and gain knowledge.
Eve understood that God had given her two commandments - don't eat the fruit, and multiply and replenish the earth. She knew that she could not follow both of these commandments. She could choose to not eat the fruit, and remain in her innocense, which would make her unable to fulfill his other commandment, or she could choose to eat the fruit and have children. I believe Eve had maternal instinct, because ultimately she chose having children as the commandment to keep.
Anyway, why the conflicting commands? What is the significance of Adam and Eve needing to make choices? Well, that is what we are all here for. We are here in mortality to make those choices that will lead us toward or away from the Lord. Without choices, there is no point to our existence.
God very much wants us all to be able to know the difference between good and evil. That is why he gave this scenario to Adam and Eve. They got the ball rolling for us all.
2006-06-17 01:26:01 · answer #6 · answered by Ruth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So as not to burden them with it.
Do you tell your 2 yr old there are mean people that might try to kidnap and kill her? I sure hope not. You don't burden a child with information like that.
Without knowledge of evil, Adam and Eve would have lived in perfect happiness....truly Heaven on Earth...after all- they saw God face to face...the only ones in the Hebrew Scriptures who did and LIVED ( that is why Elijah hid his face in his cloak...and remember Moses only saw the burning bush, and it turned his hair white....)
2006-06-17 01:07:54 · answer #7 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he was a grudger. Also, the serpent was not the first to tempt, it was the LORD who placed the most beautiful tree "in the middle of the garden."
And, how could Eve & Adam be wrong for eating the fruit when you have to eat the fruit to know it's wrong? lol.
2006-06-17 01:11:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because before they fell they could commune and "walk with" God. Once they knew the difference they were embarrassed and couldn't commune in the same way.
It's just weird when people ask these questions because God doesn't really exist within time as we see it and wouldn't He know what was going to happen after He created man?
2006-06-17 01:07:04 · answer #9 · answered by Bridget 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beacause everything was good..God wanted purity and peace. what do you think? if the world wouldn't have known the evil, all of this disasters had happend? i think not! God made man with free choice, he let the man to do everything he wants. God didn't want this beacuse knowing the evil is like doing it and knowin the good is the same thing.
2006-06-17 01:07:14 · answer #10 · answered by Sk8PunK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be referring to Eve eating from the tree of knowledge? Knowledge exposes evil,, God want them to stay innocent He also put temptation in the Garden of Eden to test their loyalty, and obedience.
2006-06-17 01:06:49 · answer #11 · answered by tee_nong_noy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋