Why do we have to suffer because Adam and Eve made a mistake?

Answer 1

The Bible teaches from the start that we are products of sin and Jesus has come to redeem our sins. It is trying first to create the guilt in us and then the associating fear and then, the need to seek relief. As a result God is feared by the Christians for punishment for the sin by Adam and Eve.

On the other hand, we are all creatures of the nature which is the manifestation of God. God's creation is expression of its creativity and hence, every thing in the creation is as per His desire.

Hence, there could not be and there is nothing called sin. It is all creation of human mind.

We need not be scared of our Father, the God. Jesus alone is not the only begotten child. Every thing living is God's creation and his expression. To that extent every thing represents God and its mind. Hence, we should love God by expressing our love for its entire creation.

Answer 2

In my opinion there was never an Adam and Eve as told like the story in the Bible. Even if there were an Adam and Eve their sins are not our sins. Two people can’t cures billions of people on the earth for eternity. Sin and it’s relationship with humanity is much more complex and paradoxical. People suffer because we choose to suffer and unfortunately other people make us suffer. God, Adam and Eve have nothing to do with humanity’s free will and their choices.

Answer 3

Haru M's answer is certainly long, but is about the silliest thing I have read in a long time. If god gave adam and eve "perfect" minds then how could they be corrupted? The whole thing falls apart right from the first sentence.

And god certainly could have destroyed adam and eve and started over again. There weren't any other intelligent beings to prove anything to! No one would have seen him do it, or had a record of it, so therefore the perfect crime.

Obviously a fantasy tale. No one is suffering from adam and eve's mistake, because they didn't exist.

Answer 4

This is a difficult question and actually I'm not sure if I should go into the whole thing here. While Adam and Eve made a choice that transgressed the commandment of God, their choice set the plan into motion that makes it possible for all of us to progress and return to God. Without them, we wouldn't be here. Also, people are responsible for their own sins, not for Adam's transgression.

One of the best sermons I know on this subject can be found here:
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/2_ne/2

Answer 5

Hmm for some reason I dont know maybe common sense...I highly doubt that anyone is suffering bc of adam and eve. Seriously give me a break here...this stuff is too funny im sorry. I dont mean to sound like that but come on.

lol

Answer 6

Adam and Eve indulging... the concept!


If Adam and eve did not exist... there would not have been any human beings! The first of the species of human beings the revered Adam and Eve were the first to surface on Mother Earth as human beings. Their direct ancestors being the ape family!

Now Adam and Eve came onto this Earth. They had both to act as a family. Both were son and daughter of God. That made them brother and sister. How come they could have fathered children?

In the initial stages of development of human life... nothing existed which we could have called as society or community. It was a raw savage world. As per the theory of Charles Darwin, "it was the time for survival of the fittest". It was the time to do and die.

Words like ethics and morality did not exist for even words did not exist during those times. The Lipi (written form of communication) was developed at a much later stage in time.

Even a brother and sister relationship did not exist at that time. There were only two human beings who had surfaced on Mother Earth. They had to copulate and produce children. They did not do it intentionally. They never knew anything about it.

It was that it happened. They did it and something was born. At that moment of time they would have been extremely surprised not knowing what to do about it. Eventually they would have realized it was one of them.

They reared that child and with passage of time another child was born. This time it was a female child. As this small family progressed further... this male and female child copulated at the appropriate time. And the whole family started to grow.

Now there were two families. With passage of time many more families came into existence. Until this point of time there was nothing like morality and ethics that played any role. For the sake of their survival and progeny these families kept on multiplying.

This was the only way to keep intruders at bay. They had to protect themselves from the wild beings roaming Mother Earth.

Ever since the Revelations of God came into existence... the human being who had invoked these words of God realized that the system had to be ordered at some stage. And some system of morality and ethics came into being.

As of today... the copulation by the children of Adam and Eve was a sin but at that time it was not a sin for the relationship of brother and sister never existed in those times.

The development of relationships in human life came at a very later the stage. It was only possible when the community would have developed into a massive strength. Population somewhere in thousands would have prompted the wise and the elders of those times to separate out into distinct families.

We need to understand that whatever is truth today may not hold tomorrow. In a scientific developing world the values whether they are ethical, moral or otherwise keep changing.

We also need to understand that during the times of Mahabharata... the battle was fought using swords, horses and elephants. But now the warfare consists of atomic bombs, missiles and chemical warfare. More on adam and eve here- http://www.godrealized.com/dharma_definition.html

Answer 7

John H....God made them perfect but endowed them with free will.

Man was not made like a rocket, with electronic controls by which the Almighty would move him and guide his course. He was not a robot, mechanically efficient but devoid of sensibility. Man had the divine gift of free will. Therefore, at a later date Joshua could say: “Now if it is bad in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve.” (Josh. 24:15) Had man, endowed with free will, been unable to choose bad, that ability to choose would have been incomplete, hence imperfect. Therefore, the very fact that man could choose either good or bad argues, not that he was imperfect, but rather that even in this respect he was a perfect creation. His sin resulted from entertaining wrong desires.—Jas. 1:13-15.

Another idea that lingers in the mind of some is that God must bear the blame for man’s sin in that He placed the tree of the knowledge of good and bad in the garden, in that way putting temptation before man. Had there been no tree, there would have been no sin. Therefore, the tree produced evil results and the Maker of it must bear the blame, they feel. Such reasoning is in error.

For example, at a drugstore you may purchase medicine that is marked: “Danger. For External Use Only.” Properly applied, the medicine has a healthful effect; but if someone ignores the plainly printed instructions and swallows the medicine, it may bring his death. Is the druggist to blame? Did he lay temptation before the customer? Of course not!

Neither did God do injury to man in planting the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. It was an altogether good thing that gave man opportunity to exercise his free will in a right way and so to learn obedience. Properly viewed, it would have had a healthful effect; but when man, urged by the Devil and motivated by his own wrong desire, ignored the plainly given warning that “in the day you eat from it you will positively die,” he brought the sentence of death upon himself. How true, then, the statement found at Deuteronomy 32:5: “They have acted ruinously on their own part; . . . the defect is their own”!

Zero cool: a dented baking pan will always create the same shaped-cakes...imperfect.

Answer 8

Exactly! Where's the justice in that??

The Bible itself says that children will not be punished for the parents' sins (Deuteronomy 24:16). Furthermore, if God really created Adam not knowing either good or evil (Genesis 3:22), how could such a harsh and enduring punishment as death for Adam and all his descendants (Romans 5:12) possibly be just? Our secular courts are more just than God when they show mercy on people who cannot distinguish between right and wrong, such as children and the mentally handicapped.

The Bible is saying that Adam, through his actions, released sin into the world and THEREFORE made it possible for all of us to sin and all of us to die. If he hadn't sinned, we would all still be perfect like he was initially created. Without his original sin tainting the rest of human existence and predisposing our nature to sin, we wouldn't be the way we are now.

I'll put it really simply... if Adam hadn't sinned, none of us would sin. Adam did sin, therefore we're all capable of sin. It was God's decision to make it so. God didn't have to hang the ability to sin on the actions of one man but he did. God then allowed the punishment for sin (death) to befall us all after Adam opened the floodgates. It was God's decision to make it so. Why?

Answer 9

They opened the door to sin, evil and disobedience.

We don't have to live like fallen Adam and Eve.

We can find the glory they lived in before the fall, through Jesus Christ.

Answer 10

As with all mythological explanations, first came the suffering and strife and then came the explanation for having suffering and strife in spite of a god who loved us. It's a way of having both a god and the evils of the world: make it our fault.