God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with no knowledge of Good or Evil. It was Satan that tricked them into gaining this knowledge. Was it originally God's plan to keep us happy by being innocent and ignorant?
Once we die, most Christians believe our minds will be wiped clean with no recollection of friends or family and little memories of this life. This is done to prevent us from remembering those who are suffering in Hell. There is no sorrow in Heaven apparently.
So God is putting us back into a state of ignorance. Again we will have no sorrow because we lack knowledge.
Is ignorance really bliss?
2006-07-18 07:28:21 · 16 answers · asked by theogodwyn 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil."
I think the Bible is incredibly clear that Adam and Eve had no knowledge of good or evil before eating the fruit. If you religion is teaching you that Adam and Eve sinned, they are lying to you. Eve wanted wisdom.
She had a healthy curiosity.
"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise."
Clearly God did not want mankind to be wise or to understand good and evil.
2006-07-18 07:49:19 · update #1
The baggage is who I am. I want to keep my baggage in heaven. I don't want to be robbed of my past to live a false life. I certainly don't want to forget loved ones.
Without sorrow, there is no such thing as joy. If you take my sorrow, you steel the sweetness of joy.
2006-07-18 07:55:37 · update #2
Even more interesting if god Knew all things that would happen he is responsible for the devil. ANd if he created adam and eve blind to good and evil how could he punish them for not being able to tell the difference when they ate the apple.
2006-07-18 07:32:53 · answer #1 · answered by the holy divine one 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with Jacques. Adam & Eve knew what they were doing was wrong, but they did it anyway. That's what's so amazing about God - he knew his children would disobey and somewhere down the line end up crucifying his son, but he created us anyway! He gave us the ability to choose and think for ourselves - he didn't want us all being little robots, which really would be about ignorance.
And yes, I also believe that we will forget our lives as they were here on earth when we get to heaven. But honestly...you'll be in paradise! Do you really think it can truly be paradise if we carry all the baggage from this life into the next?
2006-07-18 07:37:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When God created us, He gave us mind to think with and to know what's right and what's wrong. So He never wants us to be ignorant. All the prophets encouraged the people to acquire knowledge for the better of our lives. It's mind that differentiates us from animals. Concerning life after death, our minds will be kept full with the memories of all what we did in our lives because we will be asked about everything and then we will be punished or awarded. God will give us the ability to remeber everything, every detail which will be recorded by angels in special books during the whole of our lives from puberty to death.
2006-07-18 07:42:24 · answer #3 · answered by hammoudi3100 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me put it this way.
If you had complete knowledge of everything in the universe. What exactly would you do? Read people's minds? Win trivia contests? Would anything you do make you so much more happy than the things you could do now without that knowledge?
If you do find a good reason, then I'm sure you could petition God for the knowledge....or something.
2006-07-18 07:35:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did adam and Eve really not have knowledge of good and evil? God told them what not to do, they knew disobeying god was wrong. THere is a concept of good and evil. The apple on the tree, as the serpent said that you would become a god yourself, thus by eating the apple they rejected god's claim of good and evil and decided that they themselves would decide what is good and evil and rejecting god's point of view.
2006-07-18 07:32:58 · answer #5 · answered by Jacques C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance is sometimes good. Innocence is always best.
An example: The human body is a marvel at fighting antibodies and healing itself.
Sometimes, the mind interferes. Once the mind knows that the body is sick, it can hinder the body's effectiveness of healing.
The body can start doing what the mind is only thinking.
I know that I probably did not make any sense.
2006-07-18 07:44:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those are just some people's interpretations of stories in the Bible that were written thousands of years ago to explain morality in ways that people back then could understand. No, I don't believe that God wants us to be ignorant at all.
2006-07-18 07:34:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's followers honestly favor that. Many conservative communities insist that the Bible is the only e book all of us needs to study. No questioning of proclaimed dogma is approved, and no factors for dogmatic practices are given. The Chrisitan faith seems to actively encourage willful lack of expertise, deliberately discouraging investigations and attending to understand in sciences they don't love and attempting to even rewrite history to go with their mythologies.
2016-10-14 22:29:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't you rather have lived in paradise with no evil in the world?
We're talking about Eden here people!
2006-07-18 07:34:04 · answer #9 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course...and no, you won't forget your life on this earth. You will "be known as you were known"...that is not a "slate wiped clean". I think you will not remember those that are not with you as to protect you from sadness...He's an awesome God...
2006-07-18 07:33:16 · answer #10 · answered by SAHM2_1B_1G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋