If everyboby came from Adam & eve and they believed in god then why would ppl worship the sun, nature, etc?

Question

Or Noah's family.
If ppl had a "real" god, why all the "false" ones, what void would ppl have left to fill ?

I know we didn't come from adam and eve.

Answer 1

Adam and Eve is a biblical story. Not all people believe in the bible. Not all people believe that the biblical god is the real god, thus their gods are not false gods in their eyes.

Answer 2

Does everyone know everything that the guy next to them knows? No. Why is that? Because they haven't been told or they haven't been taught.

Couple that with the fact that stories change over time (like chinese whispers) so although person A hears one story, person B hears another.

Lets imagine that one family somewhere many generations failed to hear about what God did to Adam and Eve, and they in their wisdom realise that the sun gives life to things take on it as their symbol of belief and all their family do the same you have a race or group that believe something else.

Now I'm not saying this is WHY, but if it were the absolute truth (Adam, Eve etc), this is a HOW.

Answer 3

This should be obvious to you. Do you believe exactly as your parents? And even if so, does everyone you know believe exactly as their parents?

But I'll paint a picture for you of what probably came about.

When Adam and Eve walked in the garden, God had a very close and open relationship with them. They could see, talk to and touch God, a very real and present relationship. When they were cast out of the garden, things changed. And though God still had a very real and somewhat tangible relationship with the children of Adam and Eve, by the time the grandchildren and future generations came about, God was seeming less and less real to them; he didn't appear to them or talk with them anymore. And as people are apt to do, what they don't know is mixed with embellishment, until the myth outweighs the reality. And, of course, with many generations and many family branches, there would arise many religious mythologies.

Answer 4

It wouldn't take many generations for the relatives of Adam and Eve to have doubts about the wisdom of their fore-fathers, and fore -mothers.
Children nowadays get to an age when they begin to doubt most of what their parents tell them, mind you they seen to trust their grand parents, at least for a while.
It must have taken a long, long, time for people to spread around the world, and become different colours,and races. IF they did originally come from Adam and Eve, and these were the first and only people in the world.
I like the Bible, but I don't accept it as a rule for life, and I find the beginning of man-kind really bizarre.
If you were God, if you had created man and from him, woman,
what would you expect them to do if you told them not to eat from a certain tree.
These were the only people in the world, they were like children in the world, if parents tell child not to do something, do they obey?

Answer 5

Well, since this is a theological question, I'll try to answer it in the spirit it was given.
When Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden of Eden, they had a lot of time on their hands. Being outside of the Father's love, left a nasty, gaping void in their life.
Did you see that Tom Hank's movie, Castaway? Some where in there, Tom Hank was talking to a volley ball that he named Wilson. With out God right there, maybe something of the same happened to them and their children? Just a thought...

Answer 6

I think people were praying to the Sun way before "anything". People must have been confused and concluded that the Sun was a God as it rose everyday to give light and provide warmth. It must have seemed very logical at that time. The entire Adam & Eve story has many gaps that have not been filled and so it will be up tp you to decide if that was correct.

Answer 7

You need to study the different diverse religions of the world before you try to answer that question. Or read the archaeololigical reports of pre-history in the world before you form and opinion that all your peers already share. When you come to whatever conclusion you understand, you will see that there are thousands of differences and interpretations of all religions. You might even end up like me. I firmly believe in God, a Supreme Being, a Natural Choice of some kind, but I also firmly disagree with religion. Religions have caused more wars and strife throughout the world than any other causes.

Answer 8

The belief in one True God became corrupted in many places. over time.
Even the Hebrews started worshipping a golden calf, when their leader and prophet Moses was absent for a while on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments from God.
This is evidence that falling away from the true faith can happen within a very short time.

Answer 9

Because of the "original sin". Once sin entered the world man is at enmity with God. We are now all born with a sinful nature and go our own separate way. Before the sin, man had uninhibited fellowship with God. Now we must accept Christ to forgive us from our sins in order to be able to have fellowship with God. The words of Christ were "I am the Way the Truth and the Life, no man cometh unto the Father except through me".

Answer 10

please read Romans chapter 1. the apostle Paul write about how all people have a knowlege of God, but when they became conscience of Him, they rejected him. It goes on to say that God turn them over to reprobate minds and they went on to live immoral and lewd lifestyles. They went on to make idols which approved of their lifestyles and would not talk back. Paul also mentions the fact that since they made idols, they acknowledged the fact that there was a God.