i like being a good person. Nothing wrong with that. just speculation.
2006-07-13 05:37:28 · 9 answers · asked by The Pilgrim 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Alex, your question is very good! I hadn't though about it before but now I realize one thing. I believe that the apple in the garden of Eden was not actually the cause of our doom, but rather an excuse for us to live the way we do. I believe that humans need the challenge of the world we live in. granted, it could be better but had we not "sinned" in Eden, then everyone one of us would be happy, never aging and sinless. Yet, if we still lived in Eden, then what would happiness mean to us if we could not compare it to sadness, happiness would not be complemented and we would take it for granted.
2006-07-13 05:46:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As I understand it, Adam and Eve were created perfect. They misused their free will, which introduced imperfection to the race. Christians believe that even being "good" is not what God wants. He cannot accept less than perfection, and of all the people who ever lived, or will live, only Jesus, His son, ever lived a perfect life, offering himself as a sacrifice. The choice we have is to accept His sacrifice, or try to be (at least) as good as Him.
2006-07-13 05:47:40 · answer #2 · answered by kittybriton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We were like angels in the garden. We had no sinful experience. If we had no sinful experience, we did not know evil neither. So God did not want us to have sinful experience, because He said, who sin against me shall surely die. because he has a salvation plan for us before he set this world in motion, He asks us to do good, because he who believe in him will save by grace. So people who believe in him or Christ, he commands them to do good.
2006-07-13 05:47:36 · answer #3 · answered by lucky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A better question is why did He put it there in the first place...
God has always given us a choice, to do good or bad. To accept salvation or not. He's always given us a free will... even at the beginning of our existance as mankind.
2006-07-13 05:42:48 · answer #4 · answered by Livin4Him 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible confusingly refers to the tree of the knowlege of good and evil. What is meant is that you say that you know the difference between good and evil and you don't need God, which is rebellion. So really, it is the tree of rebellion.
And He doesn't want us to rebel against Him now, either.
2006-07-13 05:43:13 · answer #5 · answered by MoonWolf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He always wanted us to know good and do good, but adam and eve didnt obey Him so now the world has bad and good.
2006-07-13 05:41:33 · answer #6 · answered by alessandraakaally 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cannot not have good without evil otherwise there is no comparison to judge one. can't have hot without cold, light without dark etc. having both available to us he granted us free will to choose the correct path, hopefully, and be what he would've liked us to be.
2006-07-13 05:41:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So your soul wont be with the first who answer in this list. That is why!
2006-07-13 05:43:47 · answer #8 · answered by Evy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
msot christians whould rather know evil than good.
2006-07-13 05:41:38 · answer #9 · answered by brianna_the_angel777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋