Why was God so mad at Adam and Eve and why was he searching for them? Didn't he know where they were?

Question

It shows in Genesis that God had to ask where they were and ask them how they knew they were naked. Would he have already know where they were? And wouldn't he have known they were going to eat the apple? How is this all knowing? And now how did the punishment fit the crime? The snake was only possesed by the devil correct? Then why were all snakes condemed? And come on with the child birth thing! For eating some fruit for a forbidden tree! Isn't the death that he promised them enough!? Hummmm

Now I can understand the reason for searching for them the way you speak to your children does make sense now what about the punishment... his warning was death yet he placed additional punishments atop of that. Why?

Answer 1

Great question. But I cant even count how many times I've caught my children doing something that they had no business doing--red handed even--but I asked what they did anyway to get the "confession"; for some reason, knowing whether or not your kids are going to lie to you--even if you know they did it--makes your decision on the punishment more grounded in wisdom and less of an act of bullying them. We want our children to be honest regardless of their fear of their parent's retribution. As for the snake, it was here before man so I'm sure it got the memo on being obedient to the Creator...tough break for the slithering one...

Answer 2

Always love it when people ask such easy questions.

God asked for the same reason that a parent would ask his child "Did you eat the cookie after I told you not to?", when the parent knows full well the did. He wanted to give them a chance to own up to their behavior and take the first step towards getting things right between them.

Secondly, God did not punish Adam and Eve was death, any more than a parent who warns their kids not to play in the street punished them when someone run them over when they did. That was the consequence of their actions. He warned them in advance, and they did it anyways.

Thirdly, the snake. Like it matters? Snakes seem to do just fine getting alone without legs. But it put them in a position that from that time on would remind people that there is a price for letting the devil use them, but also a hope of a Redeemer who would break the devils power and end the consequences of sin.

Answer 3

In Hebrew literature, it is common for the "punch line" (that is the key point, the main idea, the thing to make you sit up and take notice) of a story to be the opening line of a scene --inthis case the scene opens where God enters the garden after the fruit has been eaten and the couple have realized their nakedness...God's question then, takes paramount importance in the scene --Where are you ? is nto looking for their geographic location, rather God is asking them what their new state of mind is..it is a serious question on a much deeper level than we appreciate the way we read the story without the tools and cues that ancient readers had at their disposal.

You would enjoy reading how feminist bible scholars have looked at the child birth issue. Many see it not as a curse, but as a nationalist commitment to bear children in the face of realities of the high infant mortallity rate in the late Iron Age. Check the author Carol Meyers for her book, Discovering Eve for a very different way of looking at this story.

And your other very good questions --let me just say that in Hebrew many of the points you are mentioning involve word plays--or puns--and double meanings. Not enough space here to answer everything you ask about, but you might check out some of the better more recent commentaries on Genesis at the library to get a fresh view on how scholars interpret the story differently than the ideas that are commonly held by Bible readers.

Answer 4

You have put together information so as to put the onus on God and how He got this whole thing going.
If you have a child innocent as he maybe, and you sense something is wrong. Wouldn't you ask questions first especially if you want to be honorable and want a loving relationship with your child. Yes he knew this would all happen, but God does everything with our best interest at heart. He did not want robots, but wanted us using free choice to love Him.
They where naked, and He took the life of an innocent creature to institute the first act of a blood covenent that continued in the jewish faith until Jesus Christ came to become the innocent lamb for all of mankind. Read the bible and try to get into the mind of God to find the great truths He has for you to learn

Answer 5

Why was God so displeased with the first human pair?

God placed upon them a test that emphasized the seriousness of obedience. This test of obedience was not a difficult one. They were not deprived of needed food, nor were they tested beyond their ability. However, their obedience would show that they appreciated their relationship with God. (1 John 5:3) Although some have the idea that the ‘forbidden fruit’ had to do with sex relations between the man and woman, this was not the case. God himself had already told them to “be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.” (Genesis 1:28) When God commanded them not to eat the fruit of a certain tree it merely meant that God singled out one of the many fruit trees of Eden and commanded the human pair not to eat of its fruit.

The tree was called “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad” because, as a result of God’s command, its fruit symbolized God’s right to decide for his creatures what is “good” and what is “bad” for them. So, for the human pair to take of this fruit would mean that they were turning their backs on their heavenly Father and rejecting his divine guidance and perfect will. While simple, the test involved much. It involved man’s dependence on his Creator and man’s recognition of divine authority. Remember, too, that Jesus Christ applied to imperfect humans the rule that “the person faithful in what is least is faithful also in much, and the person unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much.” (Luke 16:10) How much more did this apply to perfect creatures!

Why were Adam & Eve trying to hide from their Creator?

Adam & Eve had lost their perfect innocence. They rejected God’s loving sovereign rulership, thus introducing into their lives feelings of doubt, fear, shame, guilt, and insecurity. After rejecting God, Adam admitted that he “was afraid.” The first humans covered themselves and hid from their loving Creator, with whom they had up to this time enjoyed a close and beneficial relationship.—Genesis 3:1-5, 8-10.

Answer 6

You have to understand the over all plan of God.
Adam and Eve didn't eat a fruit. They per-took of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (the devil). Jesus was supposed to come through the genealogy of Adam and Eve. They disobey God.

Answer 7

The point of the story of the garden of Eden is that the very act of disobeying God is why humans are born into sin; Our birthrights as humans is the very sin committed by Adam and Eve. Eating of the fruit is what enables us to have a sense of morality; to differentiate between good and evil; to have free will. However, Jesus was offered as the supreme sacrifice by God so that through him, all humans would be redeemed. Only through Jesus can we enter unto the kingdom of God. Perfection is not expected; only faith; remember the thief who was crucified next to Jesus - it only took his belief and faith to have God forgive him.

Pray for wisdom and guidance: whoever seeks shall find. My prayers are with you.

Answer 8

When we sin, our connection with Yhwh is broken. He no longer can find us, and we no longer have access to Him. That is why sin is so damaging.

Let us not sin, but to recover from sin, we must pray with all our might, with all our heart and soul, so that the process of rebuilding a relationship with The Heavenly Father can begin again.

Answer 9

It was not just any tree. It was the tree that God had specifically told them not to eat. It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.



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Answer 10

When my son was 3 and still very innocent, I would catch him disobeying and I would ask him, "What are you doing"? To give him the chance to come clean on his own.