if god knows everything?

Question

then he knew that placing the tree of knowledge in the garden with adam and eve would result in them eating it. in other words god set up adam and eve to fail because he knew they would disobey him before he ever put the tree in the garden.

your thoughts please

Answer 1

Trippy Dude that God is eh? What must he have been thinking? Smoking a little dank maybe, maybe he made a bet with another God from some other universe to see who could make the funniest creatures, I would say he won, hands down!!

Answer 2

The tree was meant for Adam and Eve to eat it. It was a metaphor wherein a spirit is meant to follow its instinctive desire for a flesh/material energy. The removal of the tree of life meant after the spirit desire for a physical body the soul would experience dead. The whole story in that garden actually is all about how life started and would end. The body would provide the contrasting quality of the spirit thereby promoting awareness and knowledge of good and evil. Satan represents the physical plane which beckons the spirit "to take me". It's all about opposite qualities bound to attract and produce.

Male and female
yin and yang
positive and negative
Physical body + spirit = soul

From the spirit's innocence, to man's ignorance and finally to God's wisdom.

Answer 3

Nobody knows the answer. The Bible states that God has the ability to regret, implying that He does not know everything, and I'm not aware that the Bible explicitly states the omniisms (omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence) that are tradtionally attributed to God.

I believe that the God of the Bible does exist (and that Evolution is utter bunk), but I have little confidence in many of the book's mainstream interpretations.

-Aztec276

Answer 4

Gen 2:17 -
Of the tree of the knowledge - thou shalt not eat - This is the first positive precept God gave to man; and it was given as a test of obedience, and a proof of his being in a dependent, probationary state. It was necessary that, while constituted lord of this lower world, he should know that he was only God’s vicegerent, and must be accountable to him for the use of his mental and corporeal powers, and for the use he made of the different creatures put under his care. The man from whose mind the strong impression of this dependence and responsibility is erased, necessarily loses sight of his origin and end, and is capable of any species of wickedness. As God is sovereign, he has a right to give to his creatures what commands he thinks proper. An intelligent creature, without a law to regulate his conduct, is an absurdity; this would destroy at once the idea of his dependency and accountableness. Man must ever feel God as his sovereign, and act under his authority, which he cannot do unless he have a rule of conduct. This rule God gives: and it is no matter of what kind it is, as long as obedience to it is not beyond the powers of the creature who is to obey. God says: There is a certain fruit-bearing tree; thou shalt not eat of its fruit; but of all the other fruits, and they are all that are necessary, for thee, thou mayest freely, liberally eat. Had he not an absolute right to say so? And was not man bound to obey?
Thou shalt surely die - מות תמות moth tamuth; Literally, a death thou shalt die; or, dying thou shalt die. Thou shalt not only die spiritually, by losing the life of God, but from that moment thou shalt become mortal, and shalt continue in a dying state till thou die. This we find literally accomplished; every moment of man’s life may be considered as an act of dying, till soul and body are separated.

Answer 5

Right, but he still had to give them the choice. Could we love without a choice to not love. Say your wife was a robot, how would you know she loved you? Now if you give your wife a choice to not love, and she still does, that's actually love! We wouldn't have free will if we didn't have a choice. God had to take the chance to create an amazing gift of free will.

Answer 6

A gift that's required is no gift at all. If God hadn't given Adam and Eve another option besides to love, honor, and serve Him, where would their sincerity lie?

Answer 7

Yes....... So? Mankind still made the choice, on their own free will, to indulge in selfishness. God gave us free-will, but he did not give us freedom without responsibility. He first gave a command, "Do not eat from the tree" and left it to our free-will about whether we should follow him or rebel. But he not only gave us free will, he gave us the responsibility of our free will by saying, "Do not eat from it or you will surely die." So although God gave us free will, he always intended for us to abide by his law. However, by giving us free will, he himself took responsibility for our insufficiency. He gave us a Redeemer, that we might make atonement for our sins, and he has bore many pains seeing us perish.

I could elaborate much more but that should be sufficient for now.

Answer 8

God has always known what souls would chose Him, and what souls would not. But in His loving way, He set up this system so that on judgment day, not one single soul will cry out that they have been unjustly judged. Each of us will have had the opportunity to decide for ourselves in our lifetime and know with certainty that we got judged fairly.

Where will you be?

Answer 9

this is God's plan that we ought to constantly all come to comprehend and love him. we are all born of sin nature because of the unique fall from grace. notwithstanding, even the greater serious human beings can come to comprehend God and to do his artwork. look at Paul. He grew to become right into a tremendous-wig interior the Jewish community doing a tremendous pastime killing Christians till God had Jesus have slightly communicate with him. Granted, he did blind adverse Paul for some days; yet, interior the approach, Paul got here to comprehend that Jesus grew to become into for actual and eventurally it value him his existence. there is this concern referred to as the tremendous value that Jesus left for us to do. this is, we are to circulate into the international and introduce the unbelieving (unknowing) related to the promise of salvation and eternal existence. we are in basic terms doomed if we p.c. to be.

Answer 10

knowledge cannot exist if action is taken to falsify that knowledge. the aim of the argument is to identify the balance, but in doing so, freedom and consciousness cannot be confused where it is convenient to imply that we are only free to do what is expected of us, as if god would act outside of us, and not through us.