2006-06-28 16:47:26 · 20 answers · asked by Derek 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Opps, omniscience*
2006-07-02 03:18:12 · update #1
God may be "omniscient" (all knowing) but the writer of Genesis wasn't, and only wrote down what God led him (or her) to write.
the writer ascribed human motivations to God, because that's all he or she could do, being human. Just one of the paradoxes about God is that God "passes all understanding". If we completely comprehended God, we'd be Gods ourselves.
good luck with this one. humans have been puzzling with this one since there were humans to puzzle.
2006-06-28 16:55:52 · answer #1 · answered by paul w 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The best summation I have seen is this article (see link).
The Christians answering this question don't seem to understand the concept of original sin.
It is easy to condemn Adam and Eve for their sin, but they were utterly naive. They were armed only with the tiny amount of knowledge and experience that God had given them. They did not understand sin or have a lifetime of experience to know what was morally right and wrong. All humans since Adam and Eve have been raised over many years with parents telling them what is acceptable and what is not acceptable.
God created Adam and Eve as adults without the benefit of any life experience. He programmed them with the basics like how to eat, sleep, drink etc. and left them alone. Some talking snake persuades these naive young humans to disobey Him, and He flies off the handle casting them out of their home and punishing them and all of human kind for eternity.
God knew the flaw in His plan when He created them. He knew of the talking snake and that they would do something wrong. Yet He did nothing to help them. They were innocent and naive child like people, and He exploited and abused them.
If you believe that a compassionate perfect being did all this, and that Genesis is literally true, you are as naive and stupid as Adam and Eve.
2006-06-28 17:15:41 · answer #2 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason Jonah lived in the whale is true, but Jack and the Beanstalk isn't...
Because you were told what to believe, and you did so.
Because religious organizers of past generations saw fit to fabricate great tales of eternal life and damnation.
Because it is a way to keep people in check, and to get them to do what you want them to do.
And
Because the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent God is really just an old guy behind a curtain, talking into a microphone. Oh wait, that was Oz.
God is in your mind, no place else.
It's too bad Jack and the Beanstalk didn't make the cut though... Jonah would have made a great fairy tale.
2006-06-28 16:52:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Foreknowledge and free will is a paradox. because Adam & Eve were created by him, he had foreknowledge of each little thing that Adam & Eve would do (including eating the fruit) by using the indisputable fact that could be "hardwired into them". If Adam or Eve might want to act in yet in a unique way and chosen in yet in a unique thanks to what became contained in the "foreknowledge" or what were "hardwired into the movements they'd be doing", then it may skill derailing any plans of god and skill that god has no foreknowledge. yet when information of those movements were already set, and not in any respect something might want to replace the foreknowledge, which skill the plans or foreknowledge of what happened would happened besides. would that be free will? This paradox won't be able to in any respect be reconciled. hence, the in straight forward words rational end is that god does no longer exist and that this tale is only a delusion.
2016-11-29 23:00:03 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you think he god mad? Because he banned them from the Garden of Eden?
You must read Genesis to understand that God said if they eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they will surely die. That was not a reference to physical death, but to spiritual death.
God banished them from the Garden to keep them from eating from the Tree of Life which would have condemned man to sin forever and there would be no way to have a plan of salvation.
Genesis 2:15-17: 15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
Genesis 3:22-24: And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side [e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
This is not anger. This is love so God could provide a plan of salvation and a way to spend eternity i Heaven. Without it, man would be in sin for eternity.
2006-06-28 17:29:20 · answer #5 · answered by Sandy S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did not get mad with them in as much as he lost intimate contact with his creation. And out of the love a Father has for a child, he gave his life to get his children back into intimacy. It broke his heart.
2006-06-28 16:54:06 · answer #6 · answered by KrisDee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He wouldn't , its just symbolic. Like many of the bibles stories, they are meant to be an illustration of something and not an actual factual account of an event. God is not a he anyway. In spirit there is no he. More like he/she or androgynous.
2006-06-28 16:51:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bet He knew they would eat the fruit from the beginning, maybe it was all apart of His plan...and maybe the Bible is just a fictitious book we should all just use as a guide and not take so freaking literally.
2006-06-28 16:52:12 · answer #8 · answered by James P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You think God was mad at them? Did He not just reveal to them the consequences of their actions? Why did they hide their nakedness with fig leaves, when earlier they did no such thing? Read the words of Genesis carefully.
2006-06-28 16:52:05 · answer #9 · answered by Lil 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He gave us all free will, and they chose to disobey Him. He didn't 'make' them sin. He wants us to love Him enough to do what's right. Wouldn't you be mad if someone blatantly defied your wishes, even if you knew they would? Would your prior knowledge change your anger level?
2006-06-28 16:51:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋