If god give "free-willy" to Adam and Eve, that means god wanted Adam and Eve not to act perfect because only god is perfect and only god knows how to use "free-willy"
2006-08-09 08:12:01 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oooooo, just another contradiction contained in the bible!!! but thats blasphemy, better not let the rabid evangelicals here you!!!!
2006-08-09 08:16:02 · answer #1 · answered by The Frontrunner 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
First of all, I believe that God created Man and Woman to be a companion to Him. That being said, he did not WANT them to act imperfectly, but He also did not want to completely control them either. He knew what was going to happen and He told Adam that everything was his, except the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Until that point, Adam did not know what evil was. In the heavens, the chief angel (created by God, also with free will) Lucifer thought he was equal to God, and got tossed out of Heaven along with about a third of the angels who believed in Lucifer. He is now Satan (the desolate one) and the angels tossed out with him are demons. Satan came to Eve in the Garden and tempted her by saying (in much the same way you are), "Did God really say...that you can't eat the fruit?" He deceived her by telling her that the reason God forbid them to eat that fruit was because then they themselves would be like God, which was NOT the reason God forbid them. So she and Adam ate the fruit, "and their eyes were opened" and they knew they were naked and ashamed.
So that's your answer about the free will part. Yes, only God is perfect and we humans can never fully understand HIM. Eating that fruit gave Satan the keys to the earth, and man was cut off from salvation. So the Lord came to the earth in human form to pay the price for all sins, through Jesus Christ. That is why He is so important. When Jesus was on the cross, the weight of every sin of every person in the world was put upon Him, and His blood paid the price so we don't have to. All we have to do is accept Jesus into our hearts to be born again of the Father and be assured of salvation and freedom from His wrath at the End.
2006-08-09 15:32:11 · answer #2 · answered by Tazzy G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am going to include a link to an article you might find interesting about Adam and Eve and the decision they made. I hope you will look at it.
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/12/1/article_02.htm
2006-08-09 15:31:45 · answer #3 · answered by izofblue37 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were perfect in the since that they were complete humans (we are incomplete humans, by contrast, that is why we get sick). They were perfect in the since that they had not through of, or had done, anything evil yet.
They were not perfect in the sense that they were the same as God, who is infinite.
Bishop Augustine of Hippo (St. Augustine) answered this question over 1500 years ago. If you really wanted to know the answer, you would have read him.
2006-08-09 15:18:36 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because perfection does not mean that there is no free will involved. Satan made some perfect but bad and wrong choices and got the first pair to do so also.
2006-08-09 15:16:18 · answer #5 · answered by Grianna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Adam and Eve were perfect.
2006-08-09 15:16:39 · answer #6 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve sinned because the devil tempted them and ate the fruit. God didn't MAKE THEM SIN! they willfully chose to disobey Him.
2006-08-09 15:16:20 · answer #7 · answered by general_matt_610 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, fascinating. It's almost like the Fall of Adam was part of God's plan or something, isn't it?
2006-08-09 15:16:38 · answer #8 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said they were perfect. They had no idea what sin was until that mean ole devil came around. I sure they were doing every thing we do it just wasn't called sin until they fell from grace. They didn't even know they were nudist.
2006-08-09 15:23:42 · answer #9 · answered by Zoner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the world had no sin until the devil tempted eve to partake of the forbidden fruit. but, it was their choice ( free will ) that god gave them.
2006-08-09 15:17:01 · answer #10 · answered by BIG DADDY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did do something perfect, it was man who screwed up.
2006-08-09 15:17:16 · answer #11 · answered by yvonne p 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋