Riddle me this...?

Question

If (since) God created Adam perfectly, and Adam communed with God for the longest, why then did Adam choose to sin, and if you answer "because he chose to disobey according to his free will", why then did God punished Adam for exercising His free will? No "answers" from non-believers.

Answer 1

According to the bible, God specifically told Adam not to partake of the "forbidden fruit" (I am summarizing, not quoting), Adam disobeyed a direct order, and was ejected. Free will is not a free pass to just freak out and do whatever the hell you want. Free will cannot be used as a cop out. God wants us to think for ourselves, (why, I have no idea), and to make the right decisions, to be good for goodness sake, basically. That is what I think, I do not really expect anyone to agree with me, it makes too much sense.


I am a Christian, it is not my place to judge others, I am just trying to be a good person.


God Bless You

Answer 2

God told Adam that If he ate of the tree he would die (spiritualy). God followed through with what he told Adam. It was Adams choice. He chose to disobey God and was punished. Just like any one else who disobeys God.

Answer 3

You have no idea how long, could have been a billion years or more. I am under the persuasion that Adam lived in the garden for at least a few hundred thousand years. The punishment Adam received, to live only 960 years after living for a few hundred thousand "is" a real punishment. Adam abdicated his authority as the first son of God in allowing Eve to converse with Satan without confronting him himself. Believe it or not, Adam's sin is all part of God's plan to destroy Satan.

Answer 4

Adam had received a wonderful blessing from God, Eve.
No one would want to believe that a gift from God would deceive them.
But Eve was deceived by the serpent, and she in turn deceived Adam.

Eve exercised her free will, inadvertently deceiving Adam.
But Adam is held responsible because he was willing to make a decision that was against God's command.

Answer 5

To me, this means that one of the assumptions is wrong. Perhaps man was not created perfectly. If this is the case, that must mean that either God did not intend for man to be created perfectly or that God himself was not capable of creating perfectly which would in effect mean that God himself is imperfect.

In the other case, man was created perfectly. Something that was created perfectly could only becoming imperfect if tainted by something external. If God's creation is perfect, there must exist something outside of this.

At the moment I can only see one other possibility. If man was created perfectly and all of man's environment was created perfectly by God, then man would still be perfect. In this case, that would mean that completely following God's will is not a requirement of perfection.

In a sense, they're all contradictory to standard 'knowledge,' but when an inconsistancy arises, it is often best to reevaluate the assumptions made.

Answer 6

Adam did what God told him not to do. As a result, Adam became captive to satan, who had lured him into going against Gods word. By listening to satan instead of God, adam surrendered to satan the authority to rule the earth that God had originally given to man(Everyday life Bible, Joyce Meyer) God does not punish us most negative things that happen to us are either cosequenses of our action or someone elses.

Answer 7

If you forget "free will", and focus on what Adam did, and Eve, and Satan, then you might be able to understand. As long as you believe that Adam was given the "right" (free will) to sin, you miss the point of free will. As the old country man said "stop huntin' boogers, there may not be one there".

Answer 8

From the very start, man has had a conscience. Adam and Eve manifested this as soon as they broke God’s law and hid themselves. (Ge 3:7) In Romans 2:14, 15 we read: “For whenever people of the nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves. They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing witness with them and, between their own thoughts, they are being accused or even excused.”

All persons have the faculty of conscience, and it is to this that the life course and preaching of Christians appeal.—2Co 4:2.

Answer 9

Eve sined...butr Adam's sin is the greater because hewas given the greater responsability of Head of the Woman. Adam alowed Eve to lead where she should not. this deliberate disobedience was counted as The Original Sin... But it was the hiding, though God knew where they were, that was the cause of their being expeled from Eden. The Hiding was an act of rejection of God's authority over them... it is rejection of God that keeps non-believers from Salvation...not any sin they may have commited...

All who come to God in The Way He proscribes will Receive His free gift of Salvation.... those who reject God will be rejected by God and eternaly sepersated from Him.

Answer 10

your question is a little same, how can you choose if you do not have free will? but to answer you question, God is clothed in what appears to be a rainbow, according to revelations. and Adam and Eve were also clothed with the glory of God. when Eve ate of the apple, that Glory began to fade, and Adam seeing this did not want to lose Eve, it could be because he saw her naked for the first time, so he ate of the apple to be with her.