She got humanity expelled from the Garden of Eden. But she also gave humanity access to the knowledge of good and evil. Isn't the seeking of knowledge a noble end? Why would God want his creations to be ignorant?
2006-11-27 12:32:18 · 16 answers · asked by sparky52881 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks to Eve, humanity got the opportunity to leave its childhood home, to explore and discover and learn and invent, to do the things that no other species can do. Like any good mother, Eve made sure that we grew up.
Of course she's just a myth; but if she were real, we would all be forever in her debt.
2006-11-29 11:31:57 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Wendsday'... child is correct, then god is a psychopath. How about this instead? This is taken from an interview with Joseph Campbell in the early 80s. Campbell was a scholar of mythology and wrote books like, "The Masks of God," and "The Hero with a Thousand Faces."
"Tom: I gather you're not terribly fond of the Bible.
Joseph: Not at all! It's the most over-advertised book in the world. It's very pretentious to claim it to be the word of God, or accept it as such and perpetuate this tribal mythology, justifying all kinds of violence to people who are not members of the tribe.
The thing I see about the Bible that's unfortunate is that it's a tribally circumscribed mythology. It deals with a certain people at a certain time. The Christians magnified it to include them. It then turns this society against all others, whereas the condition of the world today is that this particular society that's presented in the Bible isn't even the most important. This thing is like a dead weight. It's pulling us back because it belongs to an earlier period. We can't break loose and move into a modern theology.
One of the great promises of mythology is, with what social group do you identify? How about the planet? To say that the members of this particular social group are the elite of God's world is a good way to keep that group together, but look at the consequences! I think that what might be called the sanctified chauvinism of the Bible is one of the curses of the planet today."
So, to answer your question from my perspective, why are you taking the story of Eve in the Garden of Eden with any seriousness? The problem with the story is Campbell's correct idea of the elitism of Judaism and Christianity along with its inherent chauvinism. If I were you, I'd leave it behind and look for something that honors both genders equally. To continue to ghettoize women is franky insane and worse, it does not recognize the divinity, in the form of human consciousness that is within us all.
2006-11-27 12:48:20 · answer #2 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why does everyone blame Eve? Adam not only ate the fruit, he whined and ratted on Eve when he got caught.... sheeesh!
The seeking of knowledge is a noble end. The story itself shows that remaining in a state of ignorance and being taken care of for eternity is not what being human is all about.
2006-11-27 12:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by Ms. Switch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a myth. I think the main point is that you can't know "good" unless you also have "evil" to compare it to. So if you want to have knowledge, you have to know both.
Compare it to the story of Buddha. The Buddha started as a spoiled rich kid named Siddhartha whose father was told that if his son ever saw suffering, he'd take off and become a monk and be the Enlightened One.
So Siddhartha of course wound up seeing suffering (old age, death, and...sickness? Hunger? Can't remember right now.) He ditched his previous life, his wife and son, his luxurious surroundings. He sat and contemplated and became wise. But it took suffering (the effects of evil) for him to become enlightened (good.)
The Adam/Eve story makes more sense if you look at the symbolism in it. Literally, it's not too helpful.
2006-11-27 12:38:21 · answer #4 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She is neither. It's not ignorance that the Lord wanted, it is a true loving relationship with man that He wanted. If we had today what Adam and Eve had before the fall, you would take that over any knowledge of anything. They had Paradise, Perfection, anything anyone of us could ever want. They were decieved, and sinned against God. He wanted them to be blessed with beautiful things, no worries or sorrow, pure joy and happiness in Him, but He did provide them with free will, and they took advantage of it. Now we have sorrow, sin, hatred, deciet, and lies in the world.
2006-11-27 12:37:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
She was a human. She wasn't a hero or a villian. I'm a sinner, so are you. Are you a villian? no. Nor are you a hero. God seeks your soul so he can have you under his hand. God gave us free will so we could decide truth (him) or fiction. It's like sorting us, he wants to find his TRUE servants.
2006-11-27 12:37:14 · answer #6 · answered by em_seeg 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATAN gave humans the knowledge of good and evil, Eve's only good quality, if you could call it that, was gullibility.
2006-11-27 12:35:45 · answer #7 · answered by enslavementality 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NEITHER! i would rather call her a CATALYST. if not 4 her we wouldnt be bestowed of free will. the sins that come from it are entirely an individual's own doing... it is proven that the same thing that bring happiness can also cause utter sadness.
2006-11-27 12:40:23 · answer #8 · answered by enki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance is bliss as the saying goes. The world would be more carefree not knowing a lot of the crap that we know.
2006-11-27 12:35:40 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eve was an innocent who was tricked. god didn't want us to know things because then we will know sin- I suppose. that part has always been sketchy to me.
Lilith was a hero!!!
2006-11-27 13:14:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋