Being that God was all knowing and perfect. I just wonder that he must have already known by putting the tree of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden that Adam and Eve were going to fall into temptation Before they were created and that all the sins of the world would happen. Is this true and what do others think about that.
2006-09-30 07:58:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes that is true. God also knew before he created the angel Lucifer, that Lucifer would fall from grace and become Satan. Since god knew this is Lucifer really evil or is he just fulfilling the destiny that was laid before him by god? Another question you could ask yourself is if god created all, and nothing existed before god, then did god create evil? How did evil come into existence? Did god implant the ability to do wrong in Lucifer? Can there be any such thing as free will if god all ready knows everything that any of us will do from beginning to end?
2006-09-30 08:13:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes of course God knew. He is all-knowing. He knew because He is outside of time, and views the fullness of time constantly. There is no such thing as "before" or "after" for God. Right now He is seeing Adam and Eve disobeying Him. Right now He is seeing your birth, and the birth of your ancestors in the year 3000. And He was seeing all these things even before the Creation of the universe. Still, He gave human beings free will, and He does not exercise control over our use of it. Preknowledge does not equal control. Adam and Eve were completely free to obey God or disobey Him, just as we are.
2006-09-30 09:29:05 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When God gives a rulle(don't eat....),God knows that exists 2 posibilitys,
for mens which have got from God free choice ,to respect the rulle and live in God, or don't respect the rulle of God and Gos knows that is a responsability and an result of each choice of mens.
Like,when mens bowl the ivorys,they know that the ivory will sit down on an number,but they don't know on each.
Iov (in The Old Testament) was a good men and must to prouve that more, through much pain.
Such God don't Know what will be our choice . Our facts prouve to God how are we.
2006-09-30 08:31:17 · answer #3 · answered by mirna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this made sense to you,
When the forsaked was stated by God Allmighty that he is an awoved enemy to men, God taught Adam how to defend from him and in his teaching, he took a covenant that Adam should never eaven approach a spceified species of tree. As time passed by, Adam forogot God Allmighty's teaching and started to consider Satans whispering. Human not only approached the tree, but took off the clothes which in his creation were appointed to him, and started sewing together leaves of the forbiden tree and clothed them as thier own clothes. In this they broke their covenant and God Allmighty dropped them down to earth and told them: In here you will abide for a trem stated. Do righteousness and Obey my messengers in order that you learn right and on the day of judgement, you will be rewarded back your heaven.
You'll see the truth.
2006-09-30 10:10:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't sin they transgressed. And, I believe he had a fairly good idea what would happen but he had to give them the choice to obey or not. That was the plan from the beginning. There would be temptations and we would have to choose right from wrong. By the way if they had not transgressed they would not have had any children but continue in the garden in innocence.
2006-09-30 08:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But of course!!
And don't confuse predestination with God's foreknowledge: there is a thin dividing line but a dividing line never-the-less.
One other thing : aren't we a bit egocentric to think that God created living beings on this earth only? The Bible seem to indicate that there are other created worlds with unfallen beings. The Earth is just a grain of sand on the vast shore of the universe.
2006-09-30 08:28:39 · answer #6 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From before the foundations of the world, He planned a way of Salvation. That would seem to suggest He knew that if He gave them "free will" that they would disobey Him. However, if He had not given them "free will" then they (and us, too) would have been nothing better than robots. He wants willing worship and obedience.
2006-09-30 08:15:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes He knew, and He also knew all possible combinations of what might have happened.
It is difficult for us to grasp, but God does not have a past, present or future. Time has no meaning for Him, only for us.
2006-09-30 08:01:28 · answer #8 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they might have actually become corrupt before the fruit... it just became more clear they rebelled
yes, God knew
and Jesus was the lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world, He knew before hand what would happen and what He would have to do
2006-09-30 08:01:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He knew it was possible. A parent whose children have discovered free will,knows the potential that exists for better or worse.Knowing this,that parent can still be surprised by their children's decisions. The story is told from the children's perspective
2006-09-30 08:23:33 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋