Or did God prep it in anticipation?
2007-01-02 04:03:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh. And why wasn't Satan confined to the outside of Eden if he was cast down to Earth?.
2007-01-02 04:03:45 · update #1
Can you reform your question, Biblically Eden is the place where Adam and Eve live. (Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. )
God intended His man to spend eternity at new earth and new heaven, this world will passed away.(Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And the sea no longer is./2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up. )
Jehovah witnesses' belief that this earth will be renovated to live for the eternity which is in contrary to the bible.
2007-01-02 04:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by jun 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I have heard it speculated that the world was without form and void, except in the garden. The people that teach this say that man was commanded to "subdue" the earth. The idea being that man was not only to tend the garden, but to multiply himself and spread the garden until it overtook the entire globe. I can't say this is wrong, but I am not entirely certain it is correct either.
As to why satan was not confined outside the garden, there is nothing in the Bible that reveals this. It does say that the Lake of Fire is prepared for the devil and his angels, and that he will eventually be confined/condemned there. But he will be confined in the bottomless pit for the duration of Christ's Millennial Reign on earth, perhaps that is when the Lake of Fire will be prepared. I only know what the Bible says, and it does not specifically reveal anything about satan's entry into the garden, to my knowledge.
2007-01-02 04:09:05 · answer #2 · answered by firebyknight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Genesis 1:28 Further, God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it..." God purposedly meant the earth to be filled with righteous people (same purpose until today).
That is why there is a promise of the paradise as it was before, not life in heaven. (heaven covenant is for the little flock only compared to the great crowd or meek ones)
Psalm 37:11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,
And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.
Isaiah 45:18 For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: “I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.
Satan was not yet casted down to earth during that time.
Job 1:6 Now it came to be the day when the sons of the [true] God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and even Satan proceeded to enter right among them. 7 Then Jehovah said to Satan: “Where do you come from?” At that Satan answered Jehovah and said: “From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it.”
2007-01-02 04:15:02 · answer #3 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was possibly barren but Adam was to work the fields anyway so Eden would have grown. And since man was given free will... God had to allow Satan access to man so they could be given choices between good and evil.
2007-01-02 04:10:59 · answer #4 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where in the bible does it say how large the garden of Eden was? It could have been the whole world. After all it was only God in the begining, who is to say where, and how big?
2007-01-02 04:24:01 · answer #5 · answered by scott w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He never intended that--He knew all along that Adam & Eve would sin-he is always in control of all things. Where does it say in the Bible that He ever intended that?
2007-01-02 04:08:28 · answer #6 · answered by heavnbound 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God Chooses not to interfere in free will, he knows what we are going to do before we do it anyway.
He was cast down to Earth.Paradise or otherwise, God Chose not to stop him, he let him have free will.
2007-01-02 04:07:05 · answer #7 · answered by Two Peas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it was Texas. A place devoid of intelligent life or natural resources besides mindless cattle and their evolved forms.
2007-01-02 04:12:55 · answer #8 · answered by william 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No /all the earth was beautiful. it was when sin entered into the picture that weeds and thorns started to grow ,
2007-01-02 04:10:28 · answer #9 · answered by Terry S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was Pittsburgh.
2007-01-02 04:06:54 · answer #10 · answered by gebobs 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋