Given that sin is non existent before. It's like raising a child and not let him get a taste or know what a chocolate is. Where would he get the idea what a chocolate would look like and that it is sweet?
2006-08-16 04:27:05 · 9 answers · asked by Virtualvine 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And say, if we are saved and go to heaven what is the guarantee that sin will not happen again. If it happened once out of nothing, it can happen again when people already know what sin is.
2006-08-16 04:30:40 · update #1
First off, God's creations have a free will... the ability to choose "yes" or "no", "left" or "right", "red" or "blue", etc.
It's not exactly accurate to call sin 'non-existant' at that time. The concept existed, as God knows what good and evil are, but it had not been acted upon by anyone yet.
To highly nutshell the concept:
God: "Here is my plan, and it will not change".
Satan: "No, I don't like it" (*poof!* rebellion. The rebellion against God is sin).
Or better yet, a young child, with no sense of right and wrong, but knows what "No" and "Don't touch" means.
Mom: " No. Don't touch that".
Kid: *touches anyway* (the child disobeyed Mom... he 'rebelled' against what she said. It is 'sin', so to speak).
It doesn't matter if the child knows what would be the result of the disobedience, nor does it matter if the child even knows what 'that' is. Fact is, is she said no, kid said yes.
Sin is defined in the Bible as breaking the law of God. When God says something as "Do this" or "Don't do this", it becomes law. To break it, even without realizing it, is sin.
Kind of like this: You are in San Francisco, CA, at the top of one of the steepest hills there, and you leave your car only briefly, and leave it running (yeah, I know... but it's hypothetical). Your lunchpail falls off the dashboard, and hits the gas. Your car goes careening down the streets at 59 mph, and all you can do is helplessly watch. You get your car towed, no big deal, since fortunately for you, no one was hurt and nothing was damaged, miraculously. The next day, lucky you, it happens again, but at 61 mph. You are fined for breaking the law. (it is illegal in CA for a car without a driver to exceed 60 mph). Now. I bet you didn't know until *right now* that that is an actual California law. Had that incident occured to you, you still would have gotten fined, irrespective of your knowledge or ignorance of that law or its consequences.
Same with Satan. Maybe he realized that rebellion against God is sin, maybe he didn't, but it doesn't matter. The fact is, is God's word is Law, and to break His Law is sin.
2006-08-16 05:07:27 · answer #1 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sin did not start in heaven where did you get that idea from it was on earth.
Adam and eve knew that the fruit looked like and they knew they weren't allowed to eat it that is why they had free will they had a chose whether or not to sin, they made the wrong chose.
2006-08-16 11:39:59 · answer #2 · answered by webbe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really does come down to the concept of free will. Satan had that free will and decided that he had a better idea than God.
The reason that it won't happen again, as i see it, is that those who live with God again in the hereafter will be those who have demonstrated a desire to live the life that God would have them live. Their free will has been exercised to the point that they will have no more desire to work against God. Without that desire, sin will cease to exist in that realm.
2006-08-16 11:39:34 · answer #3 · answered by pelotahombre 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Salam (Peace)!
Everything has a purpose for happening. And there was a reason why Satan was able to tempt Adam and Eve. And no it will not happen again. Heaven is perfect and will be perfect eternally. It is upto God how He chooses to use His Creation.
2006-08-16 11:40:40 · answer #4 · answered by Badra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In heaven we will be confirmed in grace. No more choosing is possible only joy and exstacy for all eternity. Satan chose to sin and he could choose just once. Why did he? Seems stupid even though he's much more intelligent than we are. But I suppose there's something to "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven". Why do we sin? Even though we know we will suffer. It's a mystery: Mysterium iniquitatis.
2006-08-16 11:38:29 · answer #5 · answered by carl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"It has been believed heretofore in the world that there is one devil that presides over the hells; that he was created an angel of light; but having become rebellious he was cast down with his crew into hell. This belief has prevailed because the devil and satan, and also lucifer, are mentioned by name in the Word, and the Word in those places has been understood according to the sense of the letter. But by "devil" and "satan" there hell is meant, "devil" meaning the hell that is behind, where the worst dwell, who are called evil genii; and "satan" the hell that is in front, where the less wicked dwell, who are called evil spirits; and "lucifer" those that belong to Babel, or Babylon, who would extend their dominion even into heaven. That there is no one devil to whom the hells are subject is evident also from this, that all who are in the hells, like all who are in the heavens, are from the human race (see n. 311-317); and that those who have gone there from the beginning of creation to this time amount to myriads of myriads, and every one of them is a devil in accord with his opposition to the Divine while he lived in the world" (Heaven and Hell n. 544).
2006-08-16 11:31:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it took place in the Garden of Eden.
2006-08-16 11:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by bettyboop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angels were also given free will and having free will lends us prone to mistakes.
2006-08-16 11:35:44 · answer #8 · answered by righton 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the bible
2006-08-16 11:33:21 · answer #9 · answered by spicy girl 1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋