I was just sitting here thinking how much I hate having to work, (although I am grateful to have a job so I can support myself). Since God gave Adam work to do before the fall it must not be punishment. So I ask ,why do you think that God made it important for us to work. To have a sense of pride (the good kind) ? Thoughts.....
2006-11-30 03:04:41 · 13 answers · asked by K Girl 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, before the fall Adam did work, but it was not unpleasant. After the fall, it said he would seriously labor for the ground to produce.
Accomplishment and pride. God was well pleased with the work He did in 6 days.
2006-11-30 03:10:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The garden of Eden was paradise. We will never have that again. Food came only from plants, man and animal lived in harmony. Adam and Eve rebelled against God, and God punished Adam by making him work for food. There was food around the world, but now he would have to grow his own also to survive. It was a punishment, so man will never forget to love and obey God. Work has changed meanings over the centuries. There are many types of work. The work before the fall of man was more like chores than work that was necessary.
2006-11-30 11:11:01 · answer #2 · answered by teeney1116 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because he wants us to enjoy the happiness and satisfaction that comes from working during the day and enjoying a good meal and a tall glass in the evening before you lay down with your spouse. The scriptures claim that there's nothing finer!
By the way, Adam and Eve had been given work to do before the 'fall'. People just aren't reading close enough.
2006-11-30 11:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by Rob 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A sense of pride? I think so. After all, anything worth having is worth working for. If everything was just handed to you, you'd have no sense of the value of anything. Adam and Eve had everything handed to them, until they messed up. So, God made them work for the privileges that He once gave them (food, shelter, and now the need for clothes)
2006-11-30 11:09:34 · answer #4 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He gave him work after the fall. His punishment was to earn his keep "by the sweat of his brow". So for men, it is a punishment, for women its painful childbirth.
And in a way, both things can give you pride, a sense of accomplishment, make you feel like you have done something, so its a punishment, but maybe one that also teaches us something, makes us better individuals.
2006-11-30 11:09:47 · answer #5 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have once heard if you enjoy and love your job that you will never work a day in your life. I do believe everyone should love their job, it would be a much better place, because if you love what it is you are doing you will do your best at it, and it will be of quality, something worth having. instead just doing it for a pay check. and also do your Job for the Lord, for he is your real boss. even tho you are employed by a person who signs your check do all that you do for the Lord, even if it is cooking french fries.
2006-11-30 11:25:30 · answer #6 · answered by jamnjims 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Consider the possibility that earning your living "By the sweat of your brow" might have a psychological meaning as well, which could be implying that we should use our head more than our body to "THINK" about a way or ways to make the living that could be less taxing physically...as long as it is honorable, and decent.
2006-12-02 12:45:54 · answer #7 · answered by iamhhi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Work is not a sin or something to dislike. It is a way to serve others; to use an analogy; work is the planting of a seed. The harvest is what we get from it. Do we like what you get from the planting?
2006-11-30 11:27:36 · answer #8 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was God's plan for the members of the family to be associated in work and study, in worship and recreation, the father as priest of his household, and both father and mother as teachers and companions of their children. But the results of sin, having changed the conditions of life, to a great degree prevent this association. Often the father hardly sees the faces of his children throughout the week. He is almost wholly deprived of opportunity for companionship or instruction. But God's love has set a limit to the demands of toil. Over the Sabbath He places His merciful hand. In His own day He preserves for the family opportunity for communion with Him, with nature, and with one another.
God designed the Sabbath to be the best day of the week, one that we look forward to as it approaches and a day that we are sad to see come to a close. Through the gift of God's grace and by following His instructions this will be our experience.
"For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." Isaiah 56:4-7
2006-11-30 11:13:35 · answer #9 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To have stability and dicipline inyour life God despise lazy people.
2006-11-30 11:11:11 · answer #10 · answered by Angel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋