Was it to support 'free will'? But to God we are mere uneducated children in his great wisdom.....so would you support 'free will' by handing your child a loaded gun? What was God thinking?
2006-10-31 15:12:51 · 8 answers · asked by atheists h 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
h is not going to place it on top of his house.
2006-10-31 15:15:16 · answer #1 · answered by jose m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps God wanted us to sin and get punished so that we can learn hard enough so as not to unlearn ever.
There is no loaded gun here - in this vast and diverse universe, we the minuscule can do but little harm!!
2006-11-01 00:14:19 · answer #2 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it wasn't literal, the tree wasn't an actual tree. it has a symbolic meaning for something else...so i believe. God (being the father of all mankind) wouldn't do something as ridiculous as put a tree in a garden and tell us not to eat an apple from it. if you want to know more about it...email me, if you care
2006-10-31 23:17:11 · answer #3 · answered by Olive 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God actually put us in the garden of ignorance!
In this material world,we are ignorant of the spiritual world,about God,about our spiritual nature....
Most of us do not know what is good and what is not,and the "religious "people or priests also help to stay in ignorance,as they do not wish to know God!But only sex and money!
2006-11-01 01:15:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Poison Tree
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine, -
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
(by William Blake)
2006-11-01 18:47:33 · answer #5 · answered by abbie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real question is what are YOU thinking??you are judgeing God by your human yardstick,it just isn't relative. All things are but God expressing his vision of himself. There is no "freewill" man only thinks he has freewill. it serves to guide him thru the law of karma into Grace then he will understand there is but one will and he will lovingly follow that will. Gods will.
2006-10-31 23:39:22 · answer #6 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to know what God's thinking, ask him. But my real advice is not to take a myth literally.
2006-11-01 00:00:34 · answer #7 · answered by Philo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz thats what he did. who are we to question god?
2006-10-31 23:53:25 · answer #8 · answered by LARCO 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋