If the story of the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good?

Question

and evil, then what purpose does the Bible serve? Given that the Bible is supposed to serve as a guide to the knowledge of what is good and what is bad.

Answer 1

none, that story is a fable

Answer 2

Some have already answered you by saying that the Bible has no use or purpose, but is that really so? Well, yes, that is true today, but the reason that this is true, is not because the Bible is really useless to us, and without purpose, it is only the case because it is in some cases not even considered, there are many households where the Bible is in their bookshelf, but it is never opened to be even looked at! But there are also households where there are Bibles for each member of the family, and it does get used to gain knowledge, and studied as a family then the knowledge is also put to use, these are the households that truly do find the Benefits that the Bible teaches, those households are the ones which reap the rich blessings from God's Word, not only by finding the way to experience true happinesss in these turbulent times that we are living in but also the knowledge on how we can obtain the free gift from God eternal life in happines and true peace within the family as well as out of the family but also in dealings with other people these families are the ones that truly do benefit from the knowledge that is contained in the Bible, but the other families who do not look into the Bible cannot see any benefit from the Bible, are ones who do not ever look at it, so how could they benefit from it if they do not gain this knowledge that is contained in it and therefore they cannot put it to use?

Answer 3

From a theological perspective, eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge elevated humankind from a state of ignorance to a state of accountability. In the garden, a direct and open state kept Adam and Eve in constant communion with the creator . The fall of the angel of light (Lucifer,) when he desired to make himself like God parallels what happed in the garden. Human kind acquired the capacity to sin against God at the time that they inherited, by disobedience, the knowledge that only God had and was forbidden to them. Before there was the capacity to sin, there was no accountability for sin. The bible (or at least the accepted canonized text, which we call the bible,) most contemporary Christian denominations consider to be the word of God himself and helps humans, not only to know what is right and wrong, but reveals the Character of God, through Jesus Christ to do what is right. Jesus Christ, or the word of God in the flesh, is the remedy for the Adamic nature (the sinful man). Therefor to answer your question knowledge or enlightenment about what is moral doesn't necessarily mean that humans will do what is moral, therefore the bible serves as a guidebook as well as much, much more.

Answer 4

What that story illustrates is how we came upon the gift of "free will". From then on people have had to choose one or the other, and yah a variation of both.

The Bible does serve as a guide, because we have a choice. we are not just perfect little robots that do exactly what God says, we have a choice to or no to(makes thing interesting!).

Not too mention The Garden of Eden was this the first two people on the planet. The Garden of Eden illustrates why we do need the Bible, because we have a choice.

Answer 5

The story of the Garden of Eden is true. They, obviously, at the time had no Bible. All God really asked of them was that they not eat of the Tree. They broke this command and became regular people with evil tendencies. This is meant as the ideal picture of sin and the loss of innocence. This is why it is recorded. Everything in the Bible serves a purpose.

Answer 6

You're mistaken. That is NOT the purpose of the bible.

The bible has a combination of purposes.

-It is a book of history
-It includes the specific law as set down by God himself
-It clearly lays out the consequences of breaking that law
-It specifically establishes the means by which man (who sinned in the garden long before the bible was written) could be reconciled and restored.

And no, establishing the law is not the same thing as telling us what's good and bad. Good and bad existed before the law. In fact, many men and women were held accountable to God for their sin thousands of years before the law was given.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve were created without sin and without the knowledge of good and evil. God did not want them to choose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He told them they could eat of any tree but that one, including the tree of life. But they chose the wrong tree. They were deceived into thinking it would make them be as gods, that they would be full of all wisdom if they were given knowledge about good and evil. But this knowledge took their innocense.
Because they were no longer innocent and pure, they were cut off from God. They were afraid of him and hid. They felt naked, which represents their feeling of guilt. So God covered them so they would not feel shame, but they were still cast out of the garden. Sin was in the world now and all mankind would be born seperated from God.

So now God wanted to be reconciled to people because he loves us still. The only way to be reconciled to him is to do away with sin, to somehow make us perfect again, to undo the damage that Adam did.

That's where the Bible comes in.

The Bible shows us why we are seperated from God and how to become reunited with him through his Son.

Answer 8

Before Adam and Eve were SUBJECTED TO knowledge, there was no need for a Bible to explain good and bad. Adam and Eve were like pure innocence in the flesh.

Answer 9

Not everyone would be "white/Caucasian." Adam and Eve were most likely in the "middle ground", such as modern near east/middle east individuals. Medium tone skin, medium height, etc. What caused God to be angered by the building of the tower of Babel was not that mankind was working together, it was because God had commanded them to fill the earth; they were rebelling against this command by remaining in one single location; they were building the tower to try to permanently remain in one single super-city. This was contrary to God's will. Not to say that differing languages would not have come about on their own; new languages split off from old ones long after Babel; think of German, Dutch, and English, or Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. Different languages might have come about, but not due to disobedience to God. Likewise, if man had done as he was told, there have been different cultures (though they would all still worship the same God). However, without sin, there would not be the natural selection process which causes different races to appear (black in Africa, whites in Europe, etc). All people groups would have relatively even genetic variation.

Answer 10

I think your question is rather valid. However, with the knowledge of Good and Evil, also came with the abilty of Freedom of Choice (which has been debated on many issues for many millenia). Another question you may ponder is God in the Bible Pre-Jesus, and God in the Bible Post-Jesus. In the Pre-Jesus books; "Vengance is mine sayeth the Lord" and "For I am a Vengeful God". In the Post Jesus Books, "I am a forgiving God" and "Come unto me and I will Forgive you sins".
The First half of the Bible is Fire and Brimstone, and the secind half is all Love and Forgivenss (save the Book of Revelations, then it gets all Fire and Brimstone again).

Answer 11

It didn't exist yet; the Story of Adam and Eve was IN the first part of the Bible.