Was Adam's sin God's will?

Question

Could you give a detailed answer as to why you believe this?
Thanks

Answer 1

I am sure God knew exactly what was going to happen.

Answer 2

No, because not everything that happens is God's will. God DID however, will humans to have free will, where they could make their own choices. At some point yes, someone will choose to go against God, even I would know this would happen and Im not God. Knowing it would happen sooner or later, God also prepared a way to Salvation. God chose not to map out all our lives for us, so we would be puppets, but gave us the right to choose good or evil ourselves. But we chose evil so much that God was saddened by how sinful man became so fast.

Gen 6:5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

Answer 3

Yes. This was the reason Adam was created. We all have a mission in life. A purpose and a reason we were born. Adam and Eve fulfilled theirs. Moses wrote the Book of Genesis. He projected many of his erroneous beliefs onto God and the stories of the Bible. He felt that mankind had 'fallen from grace' and this was how he explained it to the people of his time. He looked upon creation and imagined how it must have come into being. Don't get me wrong, he was divinely inspired, but the inspiration was filtered through his limited beliefs and understandings, (as all of ours are). Adam and Eve represent the birth of a new type of human. Up to that point humans did not possess free will to that extent. Neither did they have that 'moment of reflection' to the extent that we do now. The conscious mind as we know it today, began with Eve.-------notice in the story how they became self-conscious. They went from 'naked' to 'covering' themselves. This is an important development, much the same way we expect our children to become self-conscious and not be so honest(naked).

Answer 4

Adams sin was Adams sin and Adams sin was not my sin while Adams nature was Gods will. Therefore Gods will is the potential to do both good and bad. Not sin.

Answer 5

I think it's obvious that it wasn't God's will.
If you were to want me to do something and I did it, would you then go and punish me for doing what you wanted?
It's the same with the case of Adam. If God wanted or it were God's will for Adam to sin then why would God have punished him by throwing him out of the Garden of Eden and bestowing imperfection upon him?

God is loving and just it tells us in(1 john 4:8 and Psalms 37:28), so this doesn't fit with his personality.

Answer 6

That is the logical conclusion. God allowed the snake and the tree of knowledge. He defined sin. He knew before he created Adam that he would sin but created him anyway. He created the situation he wanted. Some will say "free will" but that doesn't cut it. Why tempt him? That's a sick joke.

Answer 7

I believe it was. Books like Ephesians tell us that God's plan of redemption of man was formed before the foundation of the world, or before Adam was created. If God intended to redeem man before he sinned then God must have intended that man would sin. As humans it is difficult to understand these things, and so we must often accept them as from an all knowing God and then wait and trust until eternity when God tells us we will be able to know and understand them.

Answer 8

Some that are staunch "Calvinists" would say so, yet I do not believe that to be the case. God's perfect will would be that man never sinned (because sin placed a barrier between man and God and fellowship was broken), yet He made a new way when sin entered the world. Christ came to pay the Ransom for our sins.

Answer 9

God governs all things and brings about His plan in every detail. God determined the fall of man yet Adam was responsible for his sin. God did not force him to sin. Now in all events God is working out His decree but even in an event where man sins God is doing a righteous and good act. We have examples like Joseph. When his brothers sold him into slavery it was sinful of them yet later when Joseph talks to them he tells them that though they meant evil, God meant it for good and we see how God used Joseph to save many people. see below how God sent His Son purposely and for a great good (to save people from their sin) yet those who put Him to death were lawless.
When we begin to understand the greatness of God we stand in awe. Who are we to question Him?

Answer 10

No,God trusted Adam and Eve and they disobeyed him.God's purpose for humans was for everyone to live in paradise but by being disobedient Adam and Eve betrayed God's trust, so as a result we inherited sin.

Answer 11

If God didnt know adam was going to Sin that he isn't as all knowing as you all seem to think. Maybe it was part of the plan, maybe there was no adam, maybe there is no God. No one knows till they die, everything untill then is just theory.