We see fall of Adam in Gen. 3. End is a puzzle when it comes to verses 22: "And the LORD God said, The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
Let’s concentrate on Verse 22. The phrase “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil(KJV)” needs discussion. This phrase implies the ability to distinguish between good & evil came into humanity only after sin by eating from forbidden tree; which also means that human beings were not having the ability to distinguish good & evil before they disobeyed. Then, when the choice was made to eat from forbidden tree, they decided without “the ability to distinguish between good and evil”. If that is the case, how can they be held responsible for the choice which came out of a natural intellectual vacuum which they inherited from birth, “without the decisive ability to know good and evil”.
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2006-11-04 22:37:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When God created Adam and Eve, he didn't just leave them do whatever they wanted. He instructed them and specifically told them not to eat the forbidden fruit. From this, they understood that eating said fruit is bad. Satan, the originator of all things evil, tricked Eve and then Adam. When God said they now knew good and evil, it's not understood that they didn't know this before (because God had instructed them beforehand), it simply means that they were now in position to determine for themselves what was good and what was evil, since they had rejected God in disobeying him. If God went through the trouble of creating Earth and humans, among everything else in the universe, it seems logical that he would wish humans to fare well and therefore instruct them. Thanks to the Bible, we can see what is right and what is wrong.
2006-11-04 22:57:49 · answer #1 · answered by Von Kempelen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The choice Eve made was in wilfull disobedience to the Word. Though she was beguiled by the serpent's subtility, her choice came not because she did or did not have the decisive ability to know good and evil but because she was tempted to know good and evil. To be as gods, it was told her. The temptation is clear in Gen. 3:5. And Adam's fault was taking what Eve said and not putting her away after she was defiled by the serpent..In this is so much more...It was not apples or any literal fruit that caused the fall...for if apples made women realize they were naked, you better pass the apples again for look at 'em now. It was adultery. Gen. 5 is Adams geneology and Cain is not mentioned..why? He was the serpent's seed...that is why science will never find the missing link...Serpent was a beast, upright creature...close to a man yet pure beast..but his seed could and did cause the woman to concieve.
2006-11-04 22:58:35 · answer #2 · answered by enochbride 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created Adam and Eve as his pets without intelligence, without knowledge of good and evil, like animals which get tempted by instincts. So I think it's not reasonable to say these animals have sinned!
Praise to Eve whose disobedience gave mankind intelligence or else we would have been eternal animals!
IF God is all knower, why God didnot know wat was going to happen and kick Satan where it hurts the most?
If god was intelligent, he would give adam and eve intelligence and knowledge of good and evil so that no one can deceive them. He Made them fools, mindless, without knowledge of what is bad, and make them responsible for committing something bad!
2006-11-04 22:57:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. God gave His commandments, but He also gave the freedom of choice. Man chose to disobey.
2006-11-04 22:45:12 · answer #4 · answered by shadowdancr17 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the is no sutch thing as sin it is made up by churches to control your lives it is a lie con waste of time god is not gowing to hurt you
2006-11-04 23:54:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is in the nature of humans to sin.....and frequently at that. :^) and I believe we are all responsible for our own actions.
2006-11-04 22:39:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe human being as a whole,......not individual,...there are some individual that are clean.
2006-11-04 22:43:21 · answer #7 · answered by baron van c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And who else would anyone SENSIBLY like to blame it on?
2006-11-04 23:08:54 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT ALOT OF B***S***
2006-11-04 22:39:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋