I find some things about the Book of Genesis confusing...?

Question

Since God is omnipotent and omniscient:
Why did He allow Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit?
Why could he not find Adam and Eve when they hid?
What did the Serpent look like before it was cursed to live on it's belly? (Gen. 3:14?) - honest question
I have others but I think these three are enough for now.

I forgot that part, Countrybumpkin, God did say that if Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit they would die. Does that mean they were both immortal (Gods) before they ate the fruit?

Answer 1

You got me brother. First of all, putting the forbidden fruit in the garden where Adam and eve to get it was the equivalent of putting a loaded hand gun in the same room as a 4 year old child. Because in the Bible God states, if you eat of this fruit then surly you will die. Adam and eve had no concept of death so they could not really make an intelligent decision on whether to eat the fruit or not.

I would think that God could find them no matter where they were, but that's just another error in the Bible.

Me personally, I think that the Serpent was God or doing the will of God. He obviously wanted them to eat it. He saw that they would not eat it on their own so he had to tip the scales a bit.

Answer 2

Why did He allow Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit? Choice

Why could he not find Adam and Eve when they hid? He knew where they were, it was to show that they were hiding, that's all

What did the Serpent look like before it was cursed to live on it's belly? No idea, good question .... perhaps dragon-like?

Answer 3

1God has given Adam and Eve free will, they were tempted by the Serpent, and they fell short and messed up. 2The Hiding of Adam and Eve shows that they were afraid because they did wrong, their conscience told them they should have obeyed God .3 The notes in my Bible focus on the "serpent striking at their heels", namely the hostility between snake and man.However there should be an answer to that as well. Someone will surely give you the answer readily, I will try to look it up.It is likely to be a Satanic creature that perhaps walked and then slithered. Are you in a Bible study class, that usually helps to discern what is going on and others often contribute with their understanding and knowlede. God bless you in your study, and pray for the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you.

Answer 4

1) He believed in free choice.

2) I suspect He wanted to give Adam and Eve the chance to come to Him, instead of just going to them (good lesson for us).

3) The serpent is just symbolic for Satan - so the question is, what does Satan look like? I don't think he has horns or a tail, I think he's a spirit that must be pretty good looking to be able to deceive people so much.

Answer 5

God gave Adam and Eve free will, He asked them not to eat of the tree of knowledge, if they did they would die. Eve disobeyed. Because they sinned, sin seperates God from mankind. Satan was at one time one of the most beautiful angels God had created. So I assume that what he looked like before God cursed him.

Answer 6

God gives us freewill, if not what would be the sense of us existing?Are you thinking God set them up to fail?
He knew wher they were, he was treating them like children asking them why they were hiding.
if you read the book of Genesis very carefully you see that lucifer was cast down to the earth to reign over it, after God kicked him and his angels out of Heaven.
Keep reading and you will discover the nephalum the giants of the Bible, (Goliath). these were the fallen angels offsprings.
There was two floods, everyone knows about Noah and the ark, before even Adamand Eve there was a flood that God used to try and kill all the fallen angels and of course lucifer, but some survived hence the giants.
Lucifers form was whatever he wanted to be, he was evil incarnate wanting Gods little creation (man) to fail.
But lucifer almost succeeded in destroying man.
Read on and you will see where the women married "the other sons of man" that was not from Adams bloodline. i don't give versus, you want to know then you read on my brother and i will be here to guide you all the way to HEAVEN
GOD BLESS

Answer 7

The famous "problem of evil"

(1) If God exists then he is omniscient, omnipotent and perfectly good.

(2) If God were omniscient, omnipotent and perfectly good then the world would not contain evil.

(3) The world contains evil.

Therefore:

(4) It is not the case that God exists.

Keep reading and questioning here's a good link on this subject-

Answer 8

He didn't allow them to eat the fruit, they ate it of their own free will. Adam and Eve tried to hide from God because of their shame for they had disobeyed their Lord. God knew where they were, He was calling them out for their judgment.

Answer 9

God allowed it because He won't infringe on a human's free will.
As to your next question think of it like this. GOD wasn't looking for Adam as much as He was asking Adam if he knew where he was at spiritually after disobeying---make sense? IF not I'll try to explain it better.
I don't know what satan looked like, but in Genesis 3:1 it refers to satan as the serpeant so maybe he was a snake

Answer 10

Some good questions.
First: God allowed them to eat the forbidden fruit because He did not want to be worshipped and loved by people who were like robots, without choice. He wanted people who loved them from their hearts.
Second: He knew perfectly where they were. But they needed to come to Him of their own will. So He called them and waited for them to respond, same as He does with us today.
I don't know exactly what the serpent looked like. I have seen four-footed reptiles who have quite a snaky look to them. But I really don't know.