If Adam and Eve were created perfect, why did they sin?

Question

Of course you will say "free will" but wouldn't perfect people always choose freely not to sin? Or were they created imperfectly?

Answer 1

It's religion. It doesn't have to make sense. The Adam and Eve story was a common theme in myths of that day. It's superstition and shouldn't be taken seriously.

Answer 2

Yes, they were created imperfectly. read on and you will find that God had to repent that he made man. Repentance means learning from the past. I guess that's why we don't see caveman walking around anymore.
I had my own Pavlov's dog that taught me that the mind lies to the owner. Apparently god's mind also lied to him. he saw that his creation was good. Oops. I believe he is still tinkering with his creation. I saw a very good indication that he controls the weather, a couple of times. I saw indications that he can control people and animals. As an amateur scientist, i am totally amazed and it seems the more I learn the dumber I get, and I admit it. but being dumb can be an enjoyable experience. As Einstein said, the most beautiful and profound religious emotion one can experience is the sensation of the mystical, and this is the power of all true science. Mysteries exist because I don't know. that translates to I am dumb!

Answer 3

Hi XXL,

Please share with me where it is stated that Adam and Eve were created perfect. That is a new one for me.

I am aware that they were created in His image. That to me is a physical property of being. It means that they have his physical form and likeness (that of being human). Yes, they were also immortal in the garden. This means that they were not, at the time, subject to physical death.

But were they perfect? No, they had not the experience of those things that we came to earth to gain. Thus they could not be considered perfect and actually were in a state of non-progression until the chioce was made that the partaking of the fruit, the gaining of knowlege, and remaining together so as to be able to carry our the greater of their charges, that of replentishing the earth, was necessary. Yes, it was will at work, I would term it agency, but it was not free from consequence and as such was not an act of free will. They knew that is was doing something that they were commanded not to. They knew there would be consequence and yet they made the decission to progress, to become more like their Father.

No they were not created perfect but they were created with the potential to become perfect as have each of us.

This I know to be true.

Answer 4

Adam and Eve wanted to choose what was good and bad for themselves, and having free will ment that they were able to make that choice. They were warned that it would turn out bad, but they wanted to be in charge of all there own decisions.

We have hindsight, and can see that people choosing for themselves what is good and bad to do, has resulted in a world full of problems. God let the issue play out, so that the question would solved once and for all. Soon though, things will be back to the original plan, before Adam and Eve sinned. It's up to us as individuals, as to whether we submit to Gods guidence and have life everlasting on a paradise earth, or not.

Psalms 37:29
The righteous themselves will possess the earth,
And they will reside forever upon it.

1 John 2:17
Furthermore, the world is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the will of God remains forever.

John 17:3
This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

Free will fits here b/c God perfectly gave us the right to choose. Eve choose to take a bit from the tree of knowledge, as did Adam. God does not want robots who b/c He created them will never make mistakes. He knows we will fall, but through His grace we are picked back up. Say a perfect offering was made perfect by God, the red heefer for instance, meaning no spots no work, no white hairs. God made that animal perfect but if one day it goes on its own and eats food that was not "kosher" for the heefer to eat, he can no longer be sacrified. God made that animal perfect, but through his actions he was imperfect.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Adam & Eve were humans
No human is perfect
its usuall for a human to make sins coz God created the human & gave him a special gift (mind), God also gave him another special thing (here we can't say a gift), this thing is that human can choose between doing right thing & doing wronge things.
So the human must differentiate between right & wronge to choose what way he wanna walk in

Answer 8

Sin is not mentioned in the Bible until Cain slew his brother. Perhaps Adam and Eve had learned all the lessons their Father had to teach them and it was time to go out into the world to work with Him to finish His creation and to gain wisdom from experience instead of an "instant fix" from the Tree of Knowledge...
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Answer 9

You know, if you are going to be a smart aleck at least be informed. The Bible does NOT say that Adam and Eve were perfect. How a about if you show me where it says that. I expect a person like you to be more intelligent than to make idiotic statements like that.

Answer 10

The negative purposes of Evil, that Satan have for agenda to defeat man and the Human race?, Will push the weakness of our Father's, that also Human where perfect perhaps physically, though the freedom that God has giving then was a bit to much perfection for the rest of Neanderthals that where to be on earth, and in the dark at the time, Neanderthals or cave man, that in the move to achieve changes through evolution, where to be deny by Satan's act. paradise was God gift to his creation, just like the best piece of all on earth of Real state?, for Adan to own?. Though Satan will change History because Satan ideas is not to allow man to conquest it's own matter, debilities, and learn by him self, by Using the Gift of Intelligence and achieve experience, to become free in all realities. Steal Life, will go on, and life is steal God Business. and man nor Humanity never lost Paradise, but, in theory yes Adan and Eve did, not because they where incapable to manage God business, but because the pressure of Satan to destroy everything God has create, including and not limited to man, the couple (Adan and Eve), our Biblical Father's where force to Sin.<< Secrets of Life.>>

Answer 11

Hi
I asked the same question few times before .. don't expect any answer.

We are fallible .. Adam was fallible
We sin .. Adam sinned
We have free will .. Adam had free will.

So .. WHAT is the difference between us and Adam .. nothing.

You question refutes the false theory of original sin .. which no one believe in it except Christians .. even Jews and Muslims who believe in Adam don't believe in this crap !!