With the greatest of respect, isn't the original sin story completely illogical?

Question

1. If god din't want his fruit interfered with, why did he not create another garden for it?
2. If Adam & Eve hadn't eaten it, wouldn't some other monkey or other animal have?
3. If god set such a high importance on blind obedience to authority, why didn't he create some more obedient animal, or some programmable machine to amuse himself/care for the garden/whatever?

Sorry, but the story makes no sense at all.

Answer 1

Ah, a kindred spirit.... I too have wondered these things.

As a side note, I have also often wondered why I'm so attracted to Kevin Spacey... I reeeaaally like your avatar.....

Answer 2

1/ He created the Garden with the purpose of it to florish eventually throughout the whole Earth. Adam and Eve could have anything but from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. They were given everything good and they were meant to be obedient in return. Something that God said will continue after armageddon when the meek will inherit the earth.

2/ God told Adam and Eve not to eat from it. What the tree of knowledge was nobody knows. Some people dipict it as an apple tree but the bible doesn't describe what kind of fruit grew on the tree. [If] an animal ate it then there was no sin as animals have no natural ability of perceiving good or bad. The tree was about obedience to their creator. A very tiny obedience in comparison.

3. Obedience was not blind. God gave them everything they could ever desire, they knew that God was the best course to follow. They had want for nothing. They had fulfilling work and paradise surroundings. God is love and God showed immense love on the first humans but they showed spiteful rebellion in return. God wants love by freewill (like we all do) in return not robots. How would you like it if your parents and family only loved you out of mechanism rather than free will?
Faith is not blind but built up with knowledge.

Answer 3

Keyser Söze,
1. He didn't do it any other way but His way. And He does not give excuses to the likes of KingReef or anyone else.

2. Apparently that is irrelevant. Besides, if you know animals, they tend to not eat what they can't eat. Rabbits for instance chow on pansy's, but cyclamen they don't touch.

3. They had freewill, and chose to do the wrong thing.

"Sorry, but the story makes no sense at all."
I'm not worried about it. What happened in the Garden of Eden has nothing to do with the fact that I believe in the resurrection. But I guess that makes no sense to you either.

Answer 4

It was a test. Human beings have total control over their decisions. They can chose right and wrong.

Why do some people steal and others don't. It's a test. Some pass and some fail. It's so easy to blame everything on God. There is no such thing as destiny or fate. God gave us the free will to do what we want. We choose to do right or worng.

Answer 5

First off, very impressed by your work in "Usual Suspects" (sorry couldn't resist)

Well everything about the story of original sin is mysteriously illogical I would say. One can assume it to be a metaphor to hide the actual event that took place at that time and learn a valuable lesson or just think of it as utter nonsense and live life by one's own code. Bear in mind that most laws and ethics are based on what has been taught by the bible and other religions. Would this mean that our idea of good and bad is totally off target because of the all the fundamental distortions that exist in these teachings? Very difficult to determine!

Answer 6

God gave Adam and Eve free will yet he also set a boundry by telling them not to eat the forbidden fruit,

Answer 7

1. There were several physical trees to eat from and two spiritual trees, the Lord was the tree of life, satan was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
2. They didnt eat physical fruit. The Lord told them not to eat of the tree of good and evil i.e. listen to the devil. Eve did it anyway because the devil told her if she knew good and evil she would become a God. (Note: the devil was actually beautiful, decked with many precious stones, so it wasnt hard for her to resist) She then told the man, he listened, there they both ate of the "tree"
3. He made the decision to give us free will.

Answer 8

It's a cultural knowledge-is-bad, sit down, shut up, quit asking questions and believe story. It's not the only one--Prometheus is a prime example.

That and it didn't become "original sin" until Pelagius, around, what, 130 AD? Something like that.

Answer 9

It does not have to be logical. It merely need be rational.
It only needs what is now called a realpolitik rationale.
Aka: Bush's rationale for the Iraq invasion.

E.g: there have been no terrorist attacks in iraq, therefore iraq is the source of global terrorism.
Now there are finally terrorists in iraq, the people are finally free.
they get to shed their blood, we finally proove that there can easily be terrorists in iraq, we save the world by letting the freedom fighting terrorists grow to over a hundred thousand from five thousand in less than three years,
terrorism has a place to die,
so they can train and spread throughout the world.

I just hope we never say that we gave Al-quadea brownies rather than nukes?

Answer 10

1. He didn't choose to
2. the point is not in monkeys and other animals eating it ......... He strictly said No to Adam and Eve
3. He did made us programmable ........ except that He wants us to choose the programme - right or wrong path
4. it will never make sense to u i'm afraid, coz u seem unwilling to open ur mind

Answer 11

I'm sorry but you have no Idea of what the original sin was.
and for a clue- It had nothing to do with any kind of fruit grown on any kind of tree or plant!