If the only forbidden fruit was the one that gave the knowledge of good AND evil, doesn't that mean that Adam and Eve were immortal (allowed to eat of the tree of life) before they ate the apple? Doesn't Evil require the fear of pain and death to be evil?
2006-10-15 18:51:35 · 10 answers · asked by angrygramma 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What some of the others said earlier was true: Adam and Eve could have lived forever if they did not disobey.(This is not 'immortality', which means that one cannot die; this is everlasting life-living without dying.)
But when they deliberately took what God said not to, they cut themselves off from the source of life and from that day forward, they began to die...much like a fan when unplugged doesn't suddenly stop turning, but slows down and eventually stops. This is what happened to Adam and Eve. So Satan was proved to be the liar, not God.
Since the Devil told Eve that they should decide for themselves what was right and wrong, he was actually challenging them to leave God out of the picture...as if they could do better without God. I would say that they didn't fare so well....
2006-10-15 20:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by tosa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, they were not immortal, any more than Jesus was. Only those in Heaven are immortal, and can only died at the will of God. They had everlasting life, until they ate from the tree of knowledge. They didn't learn evil, as evil has no substance. Evil is merely the lack of goodness. What it gave them was the experience and knowledge of sin.
2006-10-15 19:02:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the Bible says that they were immortal, in such terms, but yes, had they never eaten the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good & evil, evil would have never entered the picture, & they'd still be living happily ever after.
Evil doesn't require anything to be evil. Fear is not neccessarily evil, neither is pain, nor death. All are byproducts of evil, however.
2006-10-15 18:56:41 · answer #3 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He did not drop dead because god did not say he would drop dead, he said "ye shall surely die." Before this, a human was meant to be forever. They were immortal because they realized they existed and had no other source of information except what was told to them by God. The tree of life was to show them other possibilities and thus they realized that it was possible to die, have pain, etc.
By the way, this is a fictional story, not meant to be translated and analysed to the very depths of being. This is a story to help us understand the creation.
2006-10-15 19:00:58 · answer #4 · answered by AveGirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. The Bible states that the worldwide become created in 6 24-hour days, 10, 000 years in the past. technological know-how states that the universe become created 14 *billion* years in the past. The Bible states a sort of contradictory and incorrect issues (like pi is approximately 3 terrible rounding, even via historic worldwide... the Babylonians calculated pi to approximately 3.141 centuries till now the Bible, or perhaps Judaism become created). additionally, on condition that the Bible is the only evidence we've of the Christan God present day, and technological know-how has a plethora of evidence for each concept, your question can quite basically be hypothetical. yet I accept as true with you. it style of feels that devil has performed greater for us than God ever has, or ever will (i do no longer hear devil killing each infant on the earth in a worldwide flood... or sending down his son who's himself to be nailed to a pair sticks).
2016-10-19 11:39:29 · answer #5 · answered by wach 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Genesis, god promised them that they would die the same day they ate the fruit. The serpent told them they would not. They ate the fruit. They did not die that day. God was lying and the serpent was telling the truth.
This is clear to even a child. Apologists try to twist and obscure the text to distort the meaning.
2006-10-15 19:08:32 · answer #6 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who told you it was an apple??
God told Adam and Eve, not to eat from that tree, he wanted to test them!!
2006-10-15 18:54:05 · answer #7 · answered by alfonso 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not a man,,He would never lie to you..He said he is not a man that He should lie..He has no reason to lie to you,,you do that on your own,,you lie to yourself each day by rejecting him..You cheat your own self out of salvation,when all you have to do is turn from your ways and repent ask Jesus in your heart..Thats all and the Lord will do the rest in you,but you all make it out like some big bad thing..He brings love to you in a way you will never know,but I guess love is blind like they say..He never hurt you,you hurt yourself..
2006-10-15 18:56:36 · answer #8 · answered by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with papa bear. Besides, "God is nat a man that He should lie" Numbers 23:19
2006-10-15 19:09:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither did eve... but they both died eventually
2006-10-15 18:54:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋