If God didn't want them to eat the forbiden fruit...?

Question

... why didn't he sent the National Guard to prevent them from eating it? Or built a wall?

Answer 1

maybe he did it for entertainment to see if they could resist.

Answer 2

Why did he make the fruit in the first place? Why didn't he want them to have knowledge of good and evil? If they didn't understand the difference, they couldn't be expected to choose one over the other. Why did he allow the crafty snake into the garden to tempt them, knowing they were mentally like little children, with no experience of anything? He never told them not to take candy from strangers, yet blamed them when they did.

Why did God create evil? The fact that he made a tree that gave knowledge of good AND EVIL shows that it existed right from the beginning. If God is all-knowing, then he had to have known what choice they would make, and he had to have known they would be tempted to do what he told them not to, yet he blames THEM for it, as if he had no fault in the matter.

The whole story is screwed up, particularly when Christian allusions are tacked onto it. It is simply a just-so story that primitive people used to explain how things came to be--it has nothing whatever to do with Christianity, which came thousands of years later and was derived mostly from pagan religions, not the Jewish one.

Answer 3

Yeah, okay, so the free will thing i guess is true.

But, now that Adam and Eve ate the fruit we're all suffering. And Lord knows that I wish that Adam and Eve hadn't eaten that fruit so I won't get a 50-50 percent chance of burning in hell.

Even if most say that it's because he wanted to give us our own choice, don't you think that that kind of 'thinking' can't be applied for today? The 'judgement day' is coming and now I have to be really good because I don't want to burn in hell.

Answer 4

Thsi is more of a spiritual thing than you looking at it from the physical.

Right from time, God has given us a freedom of choice - that makes us different form angels. He put the tree there and gave them a choice. To do good or bad.

So we all have a choice as well just as in the garden of Eden, which is symbolic of the life we are today - a choice of good or bad.

Answer 5

Exactly, why put the forbiden fruit with all the others. Adam could have eaten it by mistake.

Answer 6

here's a questions that would attack this religion(srry if anyone is offended)

sure, free will, and as a test blahblahblah.

but, i'm not sure but, weren't they tricked or persuaded by some stupid snake or something?

since they were innocent and stupid, ofcourse they would be easily tricked and tempted, so why did god let them get tricked?

its stupid.

i want to make a proper argument and extend more about it, but i'm too lazy XP this looks like a kiddish kinda argument but w/e haha.

P.S if god even exists :P

Answer 7

Because if he had stopped them, they wouldn't have had a choice and it would be pointless. He wanted them to love Him by themselves, so He gave them the choice of sinning. It's like if you had a robot, and you programmed it to love you, it wouldn't mean anything, because there was no other way for it to exist. But with free will, humans can CHOOSE to love God and follow His commands, and then it means everything.

Answer 8

the forbidden fruit was not the issue. the issue was whether or not they would obey God and not eat it. God gave them the freewill to choose; they chose to disobey.

Answer 9

life is a game no doubt, God didn't want robots. he wanted people who would choose to love him. very few do.

Answer 10

It's a metaphor. Why does everyone have to take that **** so literally?