What was the final "atonement" for our sins?
How is man different from the plants, animals, or and other created thing?
2006-08-28 16:32:54 · 6 answers · asked by skatetoate 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They have shame. They were naked before and it was fine, because they, like newborn babies, have no shame. It was more than just a sin, it was more like innocence lost. The final atonement for their sin was loss of eternal life. They already had that. Now God sealed off the entrance to the tree. If the had kept eternal life and had the knowledge of good and evil, they would have the attributes of God. The skins meant that death was introduced to man. Something had to die to save them from their own sin. An animal had to be sacrificed for them. They also had to die in their lifetime now. Death again, was introduced but this time, it would be his man's own death.
2006-08-28 16:47:18 · answer #1 · answered by classyjazzcreations 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They learned GOOD and EVIL. they learned of death. (The consequence of sin is Death.) when God created their covering for them.
Gen 3: 21. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
22. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
the "final atonement" -- do you mean the final blood sacrifice-- that is Jesus. do you mean my personal final atonement? It is an ongoing process.
Man has a spirit, a free will, an ability to reason etc.... nothing else God created on this earth has that. I am assuming you are keeping your questions confined to this world.
2006-08-28 23:36:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They learned that they were no longer spiritual beings, but physical beings.
The answer to your second question depends upon what you mean by "atonement."
Man is different from the plants, animals, and other created things by being more evolved.
2006-08-28 23:50:36 · answer #3 · answered by Naomi R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I'm not mistaken, Adam and Eve made the coverings themselves out of shame; God did not provide them.
Some see the entire garden narrative as a metaphor for development and maturity. The garden is a paradise in which everything was taken care of for them, much like our childhood is. The tree of knowledge Adam and Eve were forbidden from touching was so forbidden becasue childhood is a time of naive dependence. "The fall" or "original sin" is really knowledge of adult realities: sexuality, labor, self-doubt, and the rest. None of us can return to childhood; Adam and Eve couldn't return to the garden. In this light, there was no sin, only growth.
2006-08-28 23:39:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They learned that sin is serious and that requires death. They learned that something else might serve as a substitute for their penalty though (in their case several animals.) The animals, of course, could not "take away" their sin -- they merely foreshadowed the One (Jesus) who was worthy to die as a substitute and take away sin.
2006-08-28 23:39:46 · answer #5 · answered by pilgrimchd 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That death has entered the World Age.><>
2006-08-28 23:41:58 · answer #6 · answered by CEM 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋