If you were concerned with allowing man freewill in the garden, why couldn't you have simply allowed Adam and Eve to exist without knowing evil, and what they didn't know, they wouldn't have chosen, would they? So freewill was never even an issue. You don't need the presence of evil to have freewill.
This brings up another question. How could Satan fall from grace in a sinless environment?
2006-08-11 04:16:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why are you debating fairy tales? It's like trying to explain why the tooth fairy didn't come when you had a perfectly good tooth under your pillow.
2006-08-11 04:21:49 · answer #1 · answered by Sleepy Shroom 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Free will is the conduit of unconditional love because we CHOOSE to sin or not to sin based on what we know and feel instead of what was "programmed" into us so that we would never know evil or sin. If there were no free will, we wouldn't have the capacity to UNDERSTAND love; we would simply experience it in a Utopian, but ROBOTIC state. ALL God's reasoning creation, from angels down to us has the capacity of free will. This is what led Lucifer to lead a rebellion against the realm of Heaven, and upon being defeated, became known as Satan and was cast out of Heaven along with one third of the angelic realm. These creatures are now known as demons. Had Lucifer not REBELLED using his capacity of free will, he wouldn't have fallen from grace. Life as it could've been known would've been relatively fulfilling without free will, but as I said earlier, it would be robotic and boring because all it would take to elicit a loving gesture from someone would be to say something like, "Come here and kiss me". You would get your kiss, but there would be nothing LOVING behind it. It would seem platonic and dispassionate. How fun would that be? Not very!
2006-08-11 05:19:46 · answer #2 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This in the beginning was a simple test. But no less important.
A thief isn't born a thief, he becomes one when he steals.
Do you think no one would have ever been tempted to steal?
Satan wanted to be worshiped. but God knew that would be a mistake. He wasn't qualified for the job.
But giving him free will meant he could desire things that he couldn't live up to. Like a man wanting to be superman.
One becomes a liar when they say something that isn't true.
Do you believe that would have never happened?
What about adultry? You would have never seen another women but your wife you were attracted to?
Never? We don't have to be taught evil, we already know that.
What we have to be taught is how to be good and abide by the laws. Children are taught to be good. Most are born knowing how to lie. and take other kids toys.
2006-08-11 04:26:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had free will from the beginning, that's why they choose to be sinless and stay in the Garden of Eden, they were banished from it. and it was they choice to know evil.
As for the sinless environment, there is no sinless environment, have you heard about balance, good and bad, ying and yang and etc.
2006-08-11 04:25:31 · answer #4 · answered by kitty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... But you do need contrast. God created scientific principal called propulsion.
Free will was the catalyst brough about through scenerio, in human terms and brought about in a human means of understanding and comprehension... Kind of like a Soap Opera.
How come you believed Newton when he said "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
But yet you question God (who made Newton by the way) when He created the laws Newton just discovered?
You're weird and biased... LOL... I mean that in a good way.
2006-08-11 04:25:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said it was sinless. God said, let us remove Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden so not only will they know "Good and Evil LIKE US", but all gain everlasting life by eating from the tree of life.
2006-08-11 04:24:04 · answer #6 · answered by Cogito Sum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would have just been robots! Satan created sin/evil out of his own evil heart. He didn't need any help.
2006-08-11 04:21:58 · answer #7 · answered by LARRY S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God isn't promptly or no longer promptly to blame for sin. that is in basic terms like in the adventure that your chum substitute into in a foul subject. you will possibly urge them to do the stunning element, yet you're unlikely to rigidity them. despite the fact that in the event that they finally end up doing the incorrect element, their decision isn't your fault.
2016-11-04 08:56:13 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
but without free will then there would never true worship...we would just be robots, and there would be no real emotion. once again, with satan, there was free will. we can either choose God, or not...it is your choice...why would God want mindless people, with no heart?
2006-08-11 04:25:33 · answer #9 · answered by pstod 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were to force your child to love you, would that be true love??????????
and satan had free will also
2006-08-11 05:04:01 · answer #10 · answered by 000000000000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋