How did Satan get in the garden of Eden, and if he hadn't would Adam and Eve have still eventually sinned?

Answer 1

God put him there to do his intended task.

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

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don

Answer 2

No they would not have. Lucifer was one of God's most beautiful high ranking angels. He seduced Eve and they had Cain. Eve actually bore twins one was Adams son Abel and one was Cain. Lucifer is the one that introduced Evil into the world. Cain became the father of an evil line.
After Lucifer did this he was demoted to Satan and has various persona's in the earth. He is extremely deceitful and wants control of the world but he's not going to get it. When we die our spirit returns to the father. At the end of this earth age he will return here with his kingdom and defeat Satan that old dragon once and for all then he will be thrown into the lake of fire along with his evil followers and they will be consumed. Some of the Lords children will help him rule his kingdom here on earth. His kingdom will be set up in Jerusalem His favorite place on earth. There will be no more tears, death or disease. It is believed that time is very near. God will forgive you if you are sincere when you ask him to. Then you must learn about him and die to self. The greatest commandment is to love God and love your neighbor.

Answer 3

Undoubtedly, the serpent is Satan in the Garden of Eden. In the Book of Revelation, he is no longer a snake, but a mighty dragon, and he is called "That old serpent, the Devil" (Rev. 12.9). How did he get there? Satan has been cast down to earth, he is called the god of the kingdom of the air, and roams around the earth looking to devour God's good people and good works (1 Peter 5:8).
I believe that Satan was there to offer an alternative to God and God's goodness. Adam and Eve were tested: will they trust God or believe that God is lying to them (Satan said, "God is lying to you!")? A person's love is truly love if it chooses you over someone else. Untested love isn't really love. Satan is necessary to test the love of the saints. One day he will outlive his welcome.

Would Adam and Eve sin without him? I don't know, but mankind is certainly capable of more sin than demons. Man and Woman are in the image of God...so how very evil is it for those in a holy God's image doing heinous evil?

Answer 4

The serpent (most likely Satan or one of his co-fallen angels) was clearly in the garden, for he was there to tempt Adam & Eve. How did he get there? Well, we don't know, but he would have had to have permission from God to both be there and tempt Adam & Eve.

If he wasn't there, what would have happened? Is a good question. They probably would have sinned anyway...for certainly God knew before their creation what would have happened and already had a provision planned.

Answer 5

The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden is a MYTH! It did not happen. It is a spiritual story of how we have the free will to obey God or not. Satan represents sinful temptations.

Answer 6

All we can do is conjecture. My opinion is that love is only possible where hatred is also possible. God wanted Adam and Eve (and all of us) to choose to love him, which requires a capacity for NOT making that choice. On God's terms, this includes obedience. Adam had to have the choice to obey God, which means not obeying had to be an option.

There was one possible sin for Adam and Eve. God gave them exactly one rule - "Don't eat of that tree." I have no basis on which to decide whether they would have eaten of the tree if not for the serpent, unfortunately.

And yes, the snake was Satan. The prophecy in Gen. 3:15 is an image of Christ defeating Satan, who is often referred to as a serpent. Rev. 12:9 and Rev 20:2 make it plain as day.

As an aside, by reading of Gen. 3:14, it seems serpents did not always slither on their bellies. More conjecture on my part: I think that their original form may have been more along the lines of what we picture as a 'dragon' - legs, wings, claws, teeth. Just interesting to ponder.

Answer 7

Satan has precedence of the world/earth since He was casted down from Heaven and what better way to "try" to get back at God, as he always does. The serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field. God knew it would happen, He knows what is going to happen before it happens. What happened in the Garden of Eden was all part of Gods plan. The snake, Devil, had to get God's permission to tempt. Satan is like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour and he does his job well.

Answer 8

It's not mentionned in the Genesis that Satan got into the Garden of Eden. The temptator was the Snake (it's not mentionned that the Snake is Satan).

Answer 9

I think that Satan turned into a snake and made Adam and Eve eat the fruit, yes I think that if he hadn't entered it yet he would eventually find a way to make them sinned because that was his plan for mankind.

Answer 10

There really is no way to tell for sure. Adam and Eve had to be tempted by Satan to sin and if Satan wasn't there to tempt them they probably wouldn't have sinned