If you were Eve, would you still eat the apple knowing the consequences?

Question

I wud like to imagine what this world wud be like if EVE did not eat the apple though....

Answer 1

The first act of disobedience was Adam saying to G_d, "You know this is a really fine place and all but You kind of screwed up. I am lonely. I need someone else."

The second was Eve listening to the snake, to be sure. I mean though, it took Adam saying Yes to Eve for them both to eat the apple.

Now I want you scholars out there to ask yourself this question, why did the Almighty put that tree with the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden in the first place?

And then, after He found out Adam and Eve and put them out of the Garden with an angel guarding it and all, why did He not destroy the Tree?

Think about it. Seriously. If He wanted us not to eat it, He just had to not put it there. If He wanted us not to eat of it again, He could have destroyed it and the Garden.

You work on that a bit and get back to me. Just a little rabbinical type question. I am not a rabbi, but it is interesting.

Answer 2

Yes I would eat it. Even if it wasnt an apple whatever it was I would still eat it because the world would not exist as it does now and who knows the consequences that would arise from NOT eating the apple or whatever it was besides I think at some point in time someone would be weak enough to be convinced to eat the apple or whatever. Thats the way God intended it to happen.

Answer 3

goodness, what a dopey question!

all the death and misery that has been brought into the world because of that one act of disobedience. that first time of listening to Satan's deceptions instead of obeying the Lord's commands!

I very seriously doubt Eve would make the same mistake again.

here's what our world would be like today if Eve had NOT taken the fruit----we would still be in a Garden of Eden, we would live in a paradise on Earth.

and you know the BEST part? every day in the still of the afternoon the Lord Himself would come down to the Earth and walk with us and talk with us and ENJOY our company, just as HE walked with Adam and Eve before she ate the forbidden fruit.

i can't even imagine how my soul would respond to that! Imagine getting to walk with the Lord DAILY in an Earth that was perfect---as perfect as the Garden of Eden once was.

we lost so much through Eve's mistake.

Answer 4

is that a trick question?? of course i wouldnt eat the apple. i would also like to imagine this world without the whole apple-incident; but unfortunately im not eve and we're all stuck in this screwed up world. (plus i dont really like apples)

Answer 5

I'm too much of a clothes horse to spend my days nude, so I'd probably chomp away. Besides, I hear fig leaves are itchy.

But seriously, things worked out badly for everyone when Eve ate that apple. How awful to have to stand outside paradise, seeing it everyday and knowing you couldn't have it. Also knowing you created the same fate for those you loved. I'm sure her life was full of regret.

Answer 6

{ "The Garden of Eden offers a life that is comfortable and risk free. Yet Eve rejects the stultifying monotony of her perfect, paradisiacal life. As she gazes at the forbidden tree of knowledge, she seems to ask, "What good is life without the wisdom that arises from experience?" Passing by the tree of life, she might muse, "Of what use is immortality without knowledge or growth?" Eve wrestles with humanity's first moral dilemma and takes the first moral action recorded in the Bible when she crosses the limit set by the all-knowing God. ............

Eve is the one who chooses knowledge over immortality. She tastes the fruit from the tree of knowledge and forgoes the fruit from the tree of life. She manifests no interest in immortality, despite God's concern about humans' pilfering from the tree of life. The narrative implies that the trade-off of immortality for knowledge and experience is complete. When Adam and Eve become mortal, they become fully human. Death confers a sense of urgency to life; the fact of death tells us that what-ever we do is important, that we must not procrastinate." } <1>

This artical by US News composes scholars from Jedism, Christianity, and Islam. Reading this artical, it occured to me that God's time is different than our time ... much like there is not a "West" in outer space ... so, I believe that Adam and Eve probably spent nearly an eternity in the blissful state in the Garden of Eden ... and the choice between immortality and knowledge came to a head. Without the "Knowledge" you wouldn't be here asking this question; instead, you'd be in a blissful imortality without the knowledge to wonder "why".

Answer 7

Eve did know the consequences. Its not a question of her ignorance dooming mankind. Its her willful decision not to follow God that doomed us. Praise God he made a way of escape. See the book of Romans.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Answer 8

Nowhere in the Bible does it say the fruit was an apple. In fact, you can pretty much figure it wasn't.

She knew the consequences as God told her. See Genesis 2:16-17

Answer 9

The Bible says nothing about an apple.

Adam was told not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan basically told Eve that God had lied to them about the dangers of believing your own imagination, as though one was godlike. They chose to stop trusting god, based on the suspicious thoughts and conjecture that appeared in their minds.

The "sin" is not against God, but against themselves, that is, their basic sanity. God removed them from the Garden so they could not eat of the tree of life, and spend eternity in foolish self delusion.

Surely God knew they would "bite" on Satan's tricksy games, (he's incredibly good at it), and sent them out to learn the hard lessons of life they could never learn in His presence. He wants wise children he can spend forever with, not obedient robots.

If Eve did not "eat the apple" we could not mature, never truly Knowing the seriousness of existence, the inconceivable depth of God's creations.

"For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace"

Answer 10

Yes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away