Especially as God gave us all his creations to do with as we will
2006-08-09 07:31:42 · 18 answers · asked by . 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I never understood that either, it came from the tree of knowledge.
Did God just want us to be dumb?
2006-08-09 07:37:28 · answer #1 · answered by Katy_Kat 5 · 2⤊ 10⤋
It was not a sin. It gave us knowledge of good and evil, the ability to make moral judgements. Without that we would not be human, we would just be clever animals. God lied, he said that if man ate the apple he would die. The devil told the truth. God didn't want us to become immortal as well, because we would then be equal to him, so he chased us out of the garden so we couldn't eat the fruit of the tree of life, and put an armed guard on it, and cursed us. God wanted to keep us subservient to him.
Obviously, God thinks it was a bad thing to eat the apple because he is a tyrant. He just wanted us to send him plenty of burnt offerings, but it had to be meat, because God is not a vegetarian.
2006-08-09 10:43:15 · answer #2 · answered by hi_patia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God put the tree of knowledge in the Garden to give us a choice God doesn't make us do anything, eating just a plain apple but eating the apple from that tree that Satan tempted them to eat, they went against what God said that was the sin
2006-08-09 07:44:15 · answer #3 · answered by dancin4jesus316 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it can damage your teeth. People didn't know how to brush teeth those days and there were no dentist in the Garden of Eden. Eve grinning with such bad teeth could only terrorise Adam, and the future of mankind would have been doomed.
Another meaning could be that true happiness can come only from absolute ignorance. Just look around and see for yourself.
2006-08-09 12:33:16 · answer #4 · answered by netwalker01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eating the apple wasn't the so called sin... Disobeying God was the real sin.
I'd like to know why God created a tree of knowledge and then forbid anyone to eat from it? What exactly was it's purpose, then?
Namaste'
2006-08-09 07:43:08 · answer #5 · answered by kymmisue 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hate to disappoint you, but no where in the Bible does it say eating "apples" is a sin. The type of fruit on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad is not specified. It was the act of disobedience that was the sin. That tree represented God's right to rule, to decide for humans what was right and what was wrong, and to demonstrate their appreciation for what he had given them, a beautiful garden home. God has now given humans over 6000 years of ruling themselves w/o his help to prove that we do need him.
2006-08-09 08:53:25 · answer #6 · answered by izofblue37 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible doesnt say Adam and Eve ate an apple, it only says they ate a fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God told them they could eat of any tree except from this one. Mankind didnt fall because of an apple, it was disobedience to God.
2006-08-09 07:39:38 · answer #7 · answered by priscie808 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It was the simple act of disobedience that was sin. And the apple was not from the Tree of Life, it was the Tree of Consciousness (also known as Tree of Knowlege of Good and Evil). Before they ate from that tree, they were innocent and knew no sin. They had the innocence of newborn babies. Think about it - God said they could eat ANYTHING except from one single tree. They could DO ANYTHING they wanted in the world except one thing. They were even running around naked! But they couldn't even follow one rule.
2006-08-09 07:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by TruthIsFreedom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is one way to describe Original sin.
The paradise in which God created the human race was a place where all people lived in complete holiness. They loved God with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their mind. They loved their neighbors as much as they loved themselves.
Then the first human beings disobeyed the commandment of God, choosing to follow their own will rather than God's will. This was the Original Sin.
As a consequence the first human beings lost the grace of original holiness, and became subject to the law of death; sin became universally present in the world.
Besides the personal sin of the first human beings, original sin describes the fallen state of human nature which affects every person born into the world. Therefore we are not responsible for Original sin but we are affected by it.
It was this fallen state from which Christ, the "new Adam," came to redeem us. Jesus makes paradise available to us again and teaches us how to live there, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
With love in Christ.
2006-08-09 18:33:08 · answer #9 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was not an apple. it was a fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. and it was such a sin becaus they disobeyed God.
2006-08-09 08:00:55 · answer #10 · answered by adrian w 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says it was an apple? The Bible doesn't.
Anyways, it wasn't the 'apple' that was the sin, it was the fact that they disobeyed God's ONE command in the Garden of Eden. God did give us His creations to do with as we will as long as we don't sin in the process. EG: God gave us animals to do with as we will. Using them for food or labor, or keeping them as pets. But not to abuse them. If we could do whatever we wanted with His creation we could abuse animals all we wanted and He wouldn't care.
2006-08-09 07:41:16 · answer #11 · answered by stretch2390 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋