Does this fairytale make any sense to you, even as a "story"?

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Does this fairytale make any sense to you, even as a "story"? YOU BE THE JUDGE.

Okay, so the story goes something like this – forgive me if I don’t regurgitate the whole dreary longwinded version: God “created” Adam and Eve (in His own image no less) and set them loose in the Garden of Eden with nothing less than a time bomb “gift” of Conditional Free Will (i.e. do as you darn please, but don’t touch or eat that delicious-looking apple), and as though that wasn’t teasing enough in and of itself, He further unleashed a snake (the biblical version of a modern day lawyer? LOL) in their midst to tempt their LUST (now don’t you be asking where from, btw) for disobedience and the good life! Well, we all know what the “imperfect images” ended up doing (never mind an omnipotent and perfect creator creating imperfect images and not knowing, before hand, what they would end up doing in time) – YES what else, they ate the darn apple! ...............

....... Actually, the poor jaded characters no sooner managed to sink their teeth into the forbidden fruit that their otherwise “forgiving, all-loving, and merciful” creator unceremoniously drove them out of their cozy little garden (full of juicy tainted apples and crafty snakes) and subjected them to an eternal life of redemption-seeking penitence, all the while procreating the ousted and incest-instigated human race! Now, wouldn’t it have been easier (and certainly more merciful) for the creator to have said: Yes, I goofed up with these morally defected “self-images of mine”. Wouldn’t it have been more compassionate to have just canceled Adam and Eve and started all over again with a fresh pair of players/potential victims? Or would that have been an obvious admission of guilt and imperfection in creation? ..............

....... YOU BE THE JUDGE – does this tedious fairytale make any sense to you, even in its detectably fabricated fable context? Do you reckon our parents/ pastors/ priests can tell us what’s wrong with this picture, or are they too going to continue playing The Glorious Green Garden Games with our feeble minds?!!

Answer 1

well at least adam got the girl in the end, besides that, hardly a page turner.

Answer 2

Yes God has given both --the attractive apple for wchich there is severe restriction for touch and eat. On the otherhand unlease a snake to tempt their lust. But one wrong God has done ----Adam and Eve should know the cosequence what will happen if they do so. Sometimes the time ,need,situation ,curiosity and other factors make them do so and ultimately they did it. And from then we are doing this as we are the inheritace of Adam and Eve. If it is bad then God can punish them but no. this is most natural. Similarly if here any Adam and Eve have touch and ate the apple then they should continue what they have done. They should not leave each other for what they did. After that they both love each other and God also have done this ---like Radha and Krishna. Har and Parvati and all others. So I think it is good to give commitment to one with whom you share the apple. Dont keep far away from each other.

Answer 3

Your twisted re-telling of the Creation story is too long and involved for me to review in detail--I've got better things to do, after all. But for the record, all religious traditions have their own traditions on how the world came to be, and very few of them make much sense when held up to reality. The Adam and Eve and Creation stories are not historical accounts, though, but parables designed to illustrate the fact that God is a part of creation, and a part of our lives; He's concerned that we resist temptation, but like any good parent won't physically prevent us from doing wrong if we can learn from the consequences of our actions.

Answer 4

No, it doesn't make any sense. There's really no moral within the story. It only makes God look like a hateful parent. Set the candy bar down in front of a 2 yr old (representing innocence) and tell them not to eat it. That 2 yr old is going to eat the candy bar and any parent would know that.

But, I'm told this is all in His Plan. Just not sure how he could be so angry with everyone for following this Plan.

Answer 5

Wow....such bitterness...& you seem to have NOT really read that which you are proporting to have read?! God did "start over" with Noah & company...remember?..Also the garden was not full of apples or snakes...sheeezz. If you cannot have the opportunity to have free will then you cannot truly have love! God knew all that would & is & will happen..He planned the ENTIRE event..from Genesis to Revelation BEFORE the first man (Adam & his wife EVE) were created. (ego: Christ the Lamb slain BEFORE the foundation of the world!) You can seek & find the TRUTH or you can reject it...(you can eat the fruit (sin) , or be obediant & not eat of it) FREE WILL...the evidence is abundantly CLEAR...if you do the homework!

Answer 6

First Adam and Eve had FREE reign in all the Garden, except one (1) tree. Think about it anything except this FRUIT (not an apple). In walks the serpent also known as Satan the Former Angel that seeks to destroy all that God does. Satan was there to make her rethink her obedience to God and to disobey God. God is a Holy God and if he says it he means it. They stepped out of His will, they created a rift between them and Him. No longer can they walk and talk with Him. They had sinned, and sin can not be in a Holy place ( the Garden of Eden) therefore they had to go and could never come back. From the beginning God had a plan to restore us back to Himself just in His time. God's ways are higher than our ways, and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
Know that.

Second; God did execute his plan to restore us to Himself. When Jesus died on the cross his blood was a sufficient sacrifice to save the entire world. All we have to do is believe and trust him as their Lord and Personal Savior.

Answer 7

I took a sigh when reading this post. This kind of sarcasm and blasphemy is so overdone on this site. It's not even original enough to be funny.

God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent.

He doesn't make mistakes and He has an overall plan that all of the events in history fit into. Just because you (in all of your great wisdom) don't understand this plan doesn't mean that it is non-existent.

When you finally meet Him....and you will....you will see that He is quite a competent and talented God.

I hope you will have had the good sense to have accepted His son by then.

Answer 8

well that's not even all. what ever happened to lilith, she came before even adam and she's never mentioned again. and how about cain and abel, they were eve's only children, so where would we have come from. not only does that imply homosexuality and incest but also that men can get pregnant, nowhere does it say that there were ther girls in the world.
and wouldn't have a god who can create an entire universe be able to foresee that they would eat the fruit, and if so what was the point of putting them in the garden anyway.
most illogical fairy-tale ever.

Answer 9

Just barely works as a story, probably one of the worst ones I've ever heard though. Who would want to read that? A child certainly wouldn't, children are too young to understand and be able to get past all of the plot holes and contradictions. An adult wouldn't want to read that either. There are millions and millions of stories in books, in magazines, on television, in movies; no adult would possibly want to read that when they could read Jurassic Park. (No one would read the Bible if it were placed in the section where it should be: fiction! If the Bible was written today, it would never even be published.)

Anyways, It's good to know that story is not reality!

Answer 10

i will admit that i'm no longer extremely conscious of the writings of Gurdjieff/Ouspensky, besides the very undeniable actuality that I easily have heard of them. yet i love the conception of love as "understanding". i trust the Universe knows Itself and we are all component to that commonly used understanding, so love will be very a lot tied to that. and that i imagine Pierre Teilhard de Chardin will be on to something, there. Love is a extremely useful rigidity. do not do not ignore that I easily have a lot "perception" the following. The "direction in Miracles" teaches that there are in uncomplicated phrases 2 thoughts, Love and concern, once you could stumble on the fashion to get rid of the terror and stay in love, you would fairly be "living a miracle". advantages on your experience!

Answer 11

I guess you can't tell a fairy tail from a real life story,just for the record God did not unleash the snake the angel turned on him.