Thus ruining it for all Mankind forever?
2007-02-17 03:43:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No need...... Adam and Eve asked for the mercy and they were forgiven..... now after that everyone is responsible for his/her own deeds.
2007-02-17 03:52:09 · answer #1 · answered by Its my Duty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women didn't do it.
Eve did it.
That is the way it went.
So here we are.
The plan was put into motion a long time ago.
Who knows the depth of what really was behind the analogy.
I believe that it has to do with believing what God says.
He said don't eat of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, for the day you do, you shall surely die.
She didn't believe Him and Adam didn't believe Him. Thus calling God a liar.
They ate, did they die?
Yes spiritually. Did they die physically, no. Adam died at 925 years of age.
It had to do with the spirit not the physical.
I would think that we had a very close connection with God at one time. This was severed when they called God a liar.
Thus it passed to us. Do we really believe that the Bible New testament is for us on a personal basis. He Paid the Price. What is sin? It is unbelief in what is written in the New Testament towards us individually.
2007-02-17 11:59:23 · answer #2 · answered by chris p 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't recall any arm-twisting or coercion in the Bible story. Eve offered the apple, Adam objected and Eve gave a convincing argument and offered it a second time. Adam chose to take it, he was under no duress.
I hold both male and female jointly responsible for the Fall of Mankind.
But then again, I don't take the Bible literally.
2007-02-17 11:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by not yet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why is life bad? Why is love bad? Why is maturing bad?
The Garden of Eden offers a life that is comfortable and risk free. Yet Eve rejects the stultifying monotony of her perfect, paradisiacal life. As she gazes at the forbidden tree of knowledge, she seems to ask, "What good is life without wisdom that arises from experience?" Passing by the tree of life, she might muse, "of what use is immortality without knowledge or growth?" Eve wrestles with humanity's first moral dilemma and takes the first moral action recorded in the Bible when she crosses the limit set by the all-knowing God.
Eve and Adam leave their father's protective abode, as children must. God knows it is time for them to face life as adults in an imperfect world. The heartbroken parent appoints a guard at the garden's gate to prevent Eve and Adam from regressing to a childhood devoid of adult responsibilities but also to prevent himself from softening and allowing them to return.
The reader sees Eve and Adam leaving the Garden of Eden full of optimism. They are not at all the tearful, dejected couple portrayed in Renaissance art, expelled by a furious father. The first thing they do is make love and create new life. What a better is there to teach us about pleasure and responsibility, behavior and consequences, than through the knowledge that the fleeting gratification of lovemaking produces a child with whom parents share a lifelong bond?
2007-02-17 11:51:47 · answer #4 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't care because it didn't happen.
I do care that, because people thought it did, women have been oppressed for the last two thousand years. Eve, as well as many other "examples" of foolish, evil, or just plain stupid women portrayed in the bible gave a lot of Christians in the old days the idea that all women were stupid and easily susceptible to the devil. Why do you think most of the people burned as witches were women?
2007-02-17 11:52:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make it sound like Eve pinned Adam to the ground and shoved it down his throat.
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:6 NIV
2007-02-17 11:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Dublin Ducky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I remember reading in the Bible how Eve jumped Adam from behind, knocked and held him down and forced the fruit in his mouth. Is that what you mean by force? Get real.
May God Bless you.
2007-02-17 11:51:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I bet this is why people think men are better.
A least she tasted the ^forbiden PLEASURE................^.
It is restriction for only the chosen few (Gods only).
It is like a cosmic 'Playboy club'.
Remember the Simpson where Homer Simpson becomes the leader of this club. Everyone gets everything that they want in this club.
I stabs a yellow tin of paint and follows the yellow drip road.
It is all a case of stopping us getting this limited pleasure because it is not as free as all the others. For God only, people are controlled to trick them into not getting it.
Now we have a taste of it, we were OK after all.
You see, it is the food of the Gods. Ambrosia
2007-02-17 11:52:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, it wasn't Eve eating the fruit that was the first sin. It was Adam not protecting her from temptation that was first sin. He was in charge of her and her protector. He told her about God's law about that tree and he didn't stop her. Note in the Genesis that it says that Adam was there when she ate the fruit, she then turned to him and gave it to him. So Adam did sin first.
So HA HA HA! How do you feel about your first father not protecting your first mother?
2007-02-17 11:49:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
How funny! Wonder why God punished Adam also? Probably because God told Adam not to eat also.
2007-02-17 11:50:58 · answer #10 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋