God said that if they ate they fruit they would die. The serpent said that if they ate the fruit they would gain knowledge. God lied, the serpent told the truth. Why do people hate the honest serpent but love the lying, decieving god?
2006-12-18 04:08:05 · 13 answers · asked by lauralie1978 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It seems like they were both telling the truth to me. To go down this path we become mortal and eventually die. Some might read that and think the serpent was luring us, tempting us to diobey God. It's really all a matter of perception and perspective, isn't it?
Peace!
2006-12-18 04:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by carole 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Numbers 23:19 NIV • Read this chapter
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
Man was intended to live forever, and nakedness was expected to be adored. But because of Adam's disobiedience and Eve being deceived, we as humans were cursed and our days are shortened. In the biblical times man's life expectancng was 900 years plus
17 The Lord God said to Adam, "You listened to your wife. You ate the fruit of the tree that I commanded you about. I said, 'You must not eat its fruit.'
"So I am putting a curse on the ground because of what you did.
All the days of your life you will have to work hard
to get food from the ground.
18 You will eat the plants of the field,
even though the ground produces thorns and thistles.
19 You will have to work hard and sweat a lot
to produce the food you eat.
You were made out of the ground.
And you will return to it.
You are dust.
So you will return to it."
2006-12-18 04:35:11 · answer #2 · answered by uniqueone 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve died...who was the one telling the lie?
"You (pharisees) are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie.”—John 8:40, 44.
Though they did not die in that very instant after eating the fruit,...in God's eyes they are spiritually dead but they did physically died later on as God said.
Should have they not eaten it then they are still alive today as they will be living forever...but they ate it and they got sick, they aged and died...
2006-12-18 04:13:08 · answer #3 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God didn't lie!!! They ate the fruit and now death exist...duh If they had not eaten the fruit no one would be dying today!As for the serpent...He was being manipulative and knew that he was being deceiving!
2006-12-18 04:12:01 · answer #4 · answered by Victoria05 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
you're fake impact the meaning. God did no longer say Adam and Eve could die the on the spot they partook of the fruit. He suggested they could "actually die". That became a warning, no longer a probability. Verse 22 would not in any way symbolize an admission of deceit on God's area. What it does tutor is compassion. Having come to the ingredient of understanding good and evil yet no longer yet having grow to be re-unified with God, if Adam and Eve had eaten of the fruit of the Tree of life (and lived continually) they could have lived continually removed from the presence of God (ie. disunified). The serpent (as familiar) additionally instructed the very fact... or a deceptive ingredient of it. whilst they did no longer actually drop lifeless in that on the spot, they DID die on that day. (sometime = 1000 years - see 2 puppy. 3: 8). additionally they DID grow to be wiser. you notice, Lucifer were there whilst God initially expressed His Plan (to strengthen the spirituality of His babies), which blanketed that folk ought to grow to be mortal and adventure duality to verify that them to grow to be sensible. God despatched Adam and Eve to mortal life (from the backyard of Eden) so as that they might then pointers on a thank you to triumph over duality (by making use of finding out directly to incorporate easy/Goodness). studying to triumph over duality (ie overcoming the organic guy to incorporate the religious) is the approach of turning into divine. Peace. P.S. interesting element nonetheless on what verse 22 DOES say... God became chatting with somebody else... asserting the "the guy is grow to be as one human beings" - meaning, there are different individuals like God? i think of it relatively is the completed element: He needs us to grow to be like Him. Verse 22 became God commenting on how Adam and Eve had made the 1st step in direction of godhood and taking steps to substantiate that they did no longer shrink to rubble their progression. God has a large, complicated plan that He explains little by making use of little to those who love Him and have self belief in Him.
2016-10-15 04:26:32 · answer #5 · answered by lipton 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God didnt lie, they died. They had eternal life, they ate, and eventually they died. Yea, they gained knowledge, knowledge of good AND evil, and now we have murder and rape and worse, because they got all knowledged up.
Love the serpent who used them to get his way, who decieved them, um..........no.
2006-12-18 04:12:29 · answer #6 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Haha, too cute. Hello we do die. If the fruit had not been touched then life would be very different.
But go ahead, do what ever you want.
2006-12-18 04:10:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
They died didn't they? So actually they both told the truth, but one spoke of the consequences of actions and one only spoke of quick rewards.
2006-12-18 04:16:50 · answer #8 · answered by Fire_God_69 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools".
Romans 1:22
2006-12-18 04:15:12 · answer #9 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We tend to believe what we want to believe irregardless of truth.
2006-12-18 04:10:27 · answer #10 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋