What is THE question?

Question

What is the question that drove you to where you are today? The question that started your journey in your new direction?

For me the question was: Why cant we go back to being like Adam?


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I asked this question and I didn't get a sastisfactory answer. The answer I kept getting was "We can't." Followed by a load of stuff about Jesus dying for sins and blah, blah.

My issue was that we don't need Jesus if we go back to being like Adam. What was special about Adam? What messed Adam up? They say it was the sin of disobeying God that messed Adam up. In my head the words Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil were pretty important. If you eat from the tree you will surely die. If you have knowledge of good and evil you will die.

What is it about Good and evil that kills and if we unlearn good and evil will we live?

Thus began my journey.

Answer 1

My grand motivational question was "how does this work?"

I was holding a preserved human brain at the time.

Answer 2

Creation is not about "good" vs "evil."
Life is about waking to a day we have
never seen before.

Adam was never really perfect to begin with.
Adam is the same person every time he
shows up. Every being shows up in a
genetic situation of which they are a part.
The mystery is not who we are. We all
know who we are. We are us. The mystery
is where we are. That's because the place
is made up of it's parts. Until the parts show
up, the place isn't there.

Creation forms when energy bits called
"quarks" explode, and interface with
invisible forces known as Laws Of Physics.
Time and space are merely by-products
of this reaction.

The "Big Bang" is not a beginning. The
"Big Bang" is just a point in an endless
cycle.

The universe is not infinite. If you could
take a tour through the universe, you would
wind up back here. What lies outside the
universe is possibly the same undertow
that exists in Black Holes: a backdraft
that pulls particle energy back to quantum
energy, which is where all energy forms
come from, as quarks collide and gird
genetic frequencies.

Cloning is a mirage. (all clones are eventually
re-classified as partial clones)

Evolution is a wild goose chase.

Can I prove any of this?
Naw, not a chance. But taking the magical
mystery tour was fun, eh?

You'll get my bill in the mail.

Answer 3

Sho-Nuff, I was raised in a Christian home and thought for a long time that was enough....I asked Jesus into my heart a number of times but each time I lived for him for a few weeks, maybe a month and then went back to the way I was before. In high school I asked Jesus into my heart and this time He provided me with a Christian friend and we kept each other accountable....After collage, I joined a Christian Drama company and that started me on a very long journey in a new direction...and I've been a born-again believer for almost 30 years now.

I think God directed me to Yahoo answers and I have found that I need to pray for people here and sometimes answer questions.

No we can't go back to being like Adam because that was what killed our spiritual nature. Only Jesus can resurrect that spiritual nature. It's one of those things that once it is broken only Jesus can make new.

Answer 4

The answer is quite simple really! God did make this world exactly like Adam and Eve, except in that world there was only one choice of evil and many choices of Good. Today being that this is Satan's Eden you have many choices of Evil and only One choice for Good----The Bible, and Jesus Christ---The Tree of Life. Any other choice is good and evil tree.
Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And God did say mankind was like God as the serpent promised Eve---Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: So being that mankind had evil in this thoughts God did have to hold mankind (ADAM; means mankind or man) back from living forever until a way to exclued evil from heaven was found.
So God set the angels to guard the way to the tree of life until an appointed time that God could fix things---Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Actually Adam did not mess up at all and was a type of Jesus Christ, by disobeying God to save his wife because he loved her and could not bear the thought of her dying alone without him. Eve was the one fooled and deceived not Adam; Luke 7:47
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
1 Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
So as in the Garden today many people disobey God to save loved ones; John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Answer 5

I've never been able to find a place where I really belong, I've seen a few parts of the world and most of the United States. I have a wonderful family. I've had financial successes and failures. I have served my community in various ways. I have sought personal relationships in the wrong place until I finally found the right one. I just begged God to help me understand why I didn't feel like I fit in and the place He has provided for me, I will never leave it no matter where it takes me.

Answer 6

For me, it was why are the holiday we celebrate not mention in the bible?
Why were the only 2 birthdays mention in the bible by someone who did not worship God and someone died during the celebration?
Why do we all have to go to Heaven when we die when I want to stay here on the earth and enjoy this life a lot longer?
Why do we grow old and die?
I found my answers, using the bible and have stayed with my faith for 28 years now.

Answer 7

The question that drove me to where I am today would have to be when I asked myself "Am I really ready for Christ to return." I had to answer by saying no, because I was still holding on to unforgiveness from past hurt and issues and things that happened in my past, and I was allowing those same issues to determine my future.
Zhoque

Answer 8

We humans cannot go back to being like Adam because we lost our capacity of being Adam.

Answer 9

Well, god doesn't exist, and neither did Adam or Eve, so...

My question is: What is the GUT(Grand Unified theory)?

Answer 10

Well I will have you know that was all Eve's fault. My life is pretty great. To be like Adam, just become dead sexy, intelligent, and over all great. Thanks for asking.