2006-09-21 16:34:31 · 9 answers · asked by HEY boo boo 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hey boo boo, did you and Yogi ever find any pickanick baskets?
2006-09-21 16:38:27 · answer #1 · answered by buttercup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's how it happened, Adam was created from pixie dust, not dirt as people would want to believe, and Adam was bored outta his mind cuz TV wasn't coming in a LOOOONG time. So he asked God to help him out, get rid of his boredom. God then proposed, "Adam, I can make you the perfect mate, but you must ,in turn, sacrifice an arm, a leg, an eye, eyelashes, and a kidney." Adam was in deep thought thinking it over, and he said,"Um...God, what can I get for a rib?"
AND THAT is why Adam and Eve fell. Cuz Adam was too cheap, of course, hindsight is 20/20 so no use whining now.
2006-09-22 03:59:49 · answer #2 · answered by chicachicabobbob 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well Adam was not deceived, he knew exactly what he was doing and that it was wrong.
Eve on the other hand was deceived (tricked) into doing what was wrong.
Draw your own conclusions from that one, but end result was that all have been and will continue to live with the punishment for that original disobedience.
2006-09-21 23:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by cindy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Humanresourcesman correctly guessed that I would say, "God gave them free will." He didn't set them up to fail. He set them up to succeed. And yes, he knew beforehand what would happen, but he arranged for sin to be defeated too.
2006-09-21 23:39:27 · answer #4 · answered by ©2007 answers by missy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Adam was really a piece of work. He tried to blame his sinning on God because he said "The woman tricked me--THE WOMAN YOU GAVE ME"
2006-09-21 23:51:25 · answer #5 · answered by Midge 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree that Adam as in a fashion, "set up to fail" or rather, God indeed knew that it was inevitable that eventually they would take the apple.
rather than see this as a flaw in reasoning or logic, in my opinion this was in fact the entire intent! god INTENDED them to take the fruit.
being mentally capable of saying "no" and protesting something going on, is meaningless unless you never have the circumstances in which to exert that will, and realize you are indeed capable of defying it.
if humanity had never been given the opportunity to defy god's instruction, we'd never have truly realized we were capable of doing so, and all of humanity as we know it would have never changed from being more or less unproductive, mindless animals.
one could say we could never truly worship god, unless we could also freely chose NOT to.
obviously, I do not belive in original sin, as I do not belive that eating from the tree of knowlege, was a sin, as its commonly thought of.
2006-09-21 23:53:20 · answer #6 · answered by RW 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nope! He would have hoped that Adam's freewill to obey would have been enough
2006-09-22 02:56:23 · answer #7 · answered by tamara.knsley@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think a religious zealot would say God gave them free will.
2006-09-21 23:36:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
there you have one of several contradictions in the bible, god is supposedly omniscient yet he had no idea that adam would sin.
2006-09-21 23:40:03 · answer #9 · answered by j 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋