I know its a key element in the story, but why did "smart, sensible" "God" even bother to grow a tree of knowledge? If "God" has all the knowledge, then why would he put his "first creations" at risk?
And do Christians seriously believe in talking snakes?!?!
2007-01-08 09:15:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It was like a pop quiz and guess what --- they failed.
2007-01-08 09:21:41 · answer #1 · answered by LadyB!™ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The story of Adam and Eve as we have it is barely anything more than a children's story. Before written languages events were passed on by word of mouth. This garbled account is the result of just such a heritage.
But there was an Adam and Eve and there was a particlar plant that they brought to this world to sustain the regeneration of their physical bodies.
Adam and Eve were part of a spiritual dispensation to uplift the evolving human race. As the story suggests, they failed, but it didn't involve this life-sustaining plant, or apples, or talking snakes.
Many people who believe in God but may lack imagination think God personally does everything that happens. There are a countless celestial beings in the universe who gladly do his bidding, and the evolution of sentient beings on a world of time and space is an enormous project carried out by myriads of beings. Thus God did not grow a "tree of knowledge," nor were Adam and Eve his "first creations." But these are all long stories you should investigate for yourselves.
2007-01-08 09:40:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-28 10:16:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't we answer this same question several times already?
The short answer would be that God believes that virtue was meaningless unless one has a choice to do otherwise but doesn't, and that love is not love unless it is freely given (and love cannot be said to have been freely given unless there is a real possibility of rejection.).
And if God said that a demon possessed snake talked, then how is that any more difficult to believe than a man walking on water, turning water into wine, curing the blind with a word, or coming back from the dead?
2007-01-08 09:27:41 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pretty my friend, scriptures are allegoric. Trees are a ancient symbol of immense importance to mystics. The key to understanding the tree is that it is of awareness of good and evil and what it causes in Adam/Eve, which it is important to understand that they represent the male/female paradox which all things are constituted of. And one of the most important keys is that this tree allowed them to see and they recognized they were naked and covered themselves from one another. They could see the difference, the roles of male and female came into their own element, they moved further within duality. This tree has always referenced the mind, the mind in it's dualistic manner, the tree of life is and was always known to be the mind and it is the completed version of the tree of knowledge.
Adam/Eve was represented of the positive/negative forces of which were said to be within the mind. The whole story is about development of the mind and the force which works like gravity upon it to keep these divisions. The tree of life represents basically the anointing, all the terms and words about the 12 apostles, 12 tribes are the12 fruits upon the tree of life as spoken in Revelation, or the 12 spheres of mind which the bodily organs are holographic to. This speaks of nothing outside of mind and being.
G.R.S. Mead entitled Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, this explanation is put forth: “…what the Gnostics projected onto the screen… [in the form of a ] picture of the universe was in reality a picture of their own minds. Its mythology is a symbolic portrayal, almost a deliberate one, of the forces which operate in the structuring and evolution of the human personality”.
2007-01-08 10:29:05 · answer #5 · answered by Automaton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A snake is a snake of course of course.... well if you read the story Satan had taken the form of a serpent.
The tree of knowledge is figurative. Hebrew poetry.
2007-01-08 09:21:26 · answer #6 · answered by sprydle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is clear on why God grew that tree.
2007-01-08 09:21:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God did it, because it served His purpose.
And Christians believe in the Word of God.
2007-01-08 09:19:07 · answer #8 · answered by Born Again Christian 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
maybe it was an important element of the gardens habitat.
2007-01-08 09:26:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Born Again Christian, that was a pretty stupid answer.
2007-01-08 09:21:35 · answer #10 · answered by Sasha L. 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋