I sure do.
2007-01-08 09:39:39 · 33 answers · asked by Alex 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It says a lot about the role religion would like to play in our lives.
2007-01-08 09:41:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
It's not the first sin in the Bible, it's the first sin of the first two human beings; all the more absurd. Even the average fool knows he is a creature that grows by experience-- knowledge-- why then would a supposedly loving Father ban his children for life from their home for a simple lie?
I'd bet there aren't many here who have children of their own yet, but then you should still be able to remember the love your own parents showed you as children; we can only hope they were more tolerant, loving, and forgiving than the Father in this story.
Most Christians are quick to forget that Jesus revealed a level of mercy that he presumably learned from his Divine Father, and he taught us to forgive "seventy times seven." He practiced what he preached when he forgave those who killed him.
Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to truly know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it.
2007-01-08 10:00:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well; we [man-kind] has most certainly carried the "ball" , as far as, knowledge is concerned. Where has it gotten us ? Into such great paradox within the world we live in. On one hand we have made great strides in technological advances ... on the other, we have polluted the planet in our quest to accumulate wealth and power - never satisfied. Knowledge on its own without Godly character. has placed us on a course with disaster. When I look at global warming , the melting of both, North and South poles, see North Korea and Iran working towards the amassing of nuclear arms, crime becoming the rule rather than, the exception in most cities, disease pandemics in the future, weather changes, terrorism waiting to pick the right time to unleash a "dirty" bomb in North American or European cities ... I have to wonder, how can a book like the Holy Bible KNOW that knowledge would be insufficient of it self, to keep the earth from imploding ?
2007-01-08 10:00:00 · answer #3 · answered by guraqt2me 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first sin wasn't eating from the tree of knowledge. It was dis-obeying God after He tiold them specifically not to eat from it.
2007-01-08 11:03:01 · answer #4 · answered by cclleeoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find it equally ironic that the second sin was pride.
I don't like to think of God as a being that would be upset by either. The irony is man writing that they are sure God would be.
Who's really upset about that? God? Or perhaps the church that benefits by keeping knowledge and pride in check?
Take a look at the movie Stigmata and the Gospel of St. Thomas. That movie sure got me thinking.
"split a branch and you will find me, lift a stone and I will be there"
Meaning that God is everywhere and the church isn't nessesary to have a relationship with God. Who would be more upset by that? God or the Pope?
2007-01-08 09:45:04 · answer #5 · answered by Justin 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Basically, truthfully the first sin was annal sex...the apple the way nature designed it resembles...the woman's behind, the snake represents Adam's penis...and the tree of knowelge is humans learm to do other kinds of sex... beyond the normal way...and Guess what? the sin today continious...and keeps mariages together...Couples that they do n't try or do Annal Sex...( use the back door as also get called )soon or later get divorsed.
2007-01-08 09:50:51 · answer #6 · answered by nikitasgarofallou 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.
Adam and Eve were perfect until then, blameless, innocent, they didn't have a conscience because they didn't need one (like a small child).
Knowledge of Good and Evil is our conscience. The ability to know what's right and wrong. It's Ironic that you are using that knowledge of Good and Evil to mock God's word, when deep down, you know it's wrong.
:)
And if you don't know it deep down, keep digging. Satan can throw a lot of dirt at us, but Jesus cleanses us of our sins...
and I say Amen to that.
2007-01-08 09:44:15 · answer #7 · answered by Doug 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It's the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Nothing wrong with knowledge, little phoney.
2007-01-08 09:41:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Actually, the sin is succumbing to temptation and disobeying the Lord.
2007-01-08 09:46:29 · answer #9 · answered by cucumberlarry1 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's more ironic than you think. It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. So basically according to Genesis, God stuck a naked man and woman - unmarried - together in a garden and told them "Do whatever you want, just don't try to judge good and evil".
Then later when they did try to get that ability, God caught 'em, kicked 'em out of the garden, and told Adam that his punishment was that he was going to have to work for a living.
It's really hard to see how the Christians could have twisted all of that into the current "work ethic" and "no sex outside of marriage" thing they're pushing these days.
2007-01-08 09:40:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 4⤋
You forgot the end part of that verse .... "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil".
Sort of changes the whole irony thing doesn't it.
2007-01-08 09:43:18 · answer #11 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋