IF BIBLE-GOD KNOWS the FUTURE and the PAST...?

Question

Then why did he create Eve later?

Why did he realize that Adam was lonely and needed a female of his race to be a companion (mate) so they could reproduce? He would have known that need was there already, and made them at the same time!!!!

If God made man and woman to be heterosexual and procreate, why didn't he make them at the same time, instead of making Eve later, as an afterthought?

If he knows the future and the past, he would have already known that Adam needed a mate, and he would have made them at the same time. Not waiting until later, and then going "Oops, I guess I should have made a female mate out of dirt, too. I guess I'll have to make Eve out of one of Adam's ribs." Etc, etc...

How stupid do people need to be to believe this?
How crazy are you not to notice the glaring contradiction here? If God knew the past and the future, it makes the Adam and Eve story IMPOSSIBLE! Are you intelligent enough to realize that??

Another fatal flaw in bible "logic"

thanks Uncle Thesis for the "you're not a father, are you?" comment...

So, tell me. As a father, do you give your kids rules, then hide from them, never making yourself visible or available to them, and then, kill your children on a global scale with a flood when they make you angry or when they misbehave? and, do you threaten them with an eternity of suffering if they don't follow you, believe in you and love you?

Yeah, you and I have a different idea of what LOVE is and what it means to be a real father. thanks for pointing that out. and thanks for pointing out yet another fatal flaw in bible illogic.

"There is a deep METAPHORIC significance to the story. It is not meant to be taken LITERALLY..."

Thank you for noting that the bible is FICTION and not a true account of history. That much is appreciated.

Answer 1

So many fatal flaws in that book.

Answer 2

I realized something some time ago. God is not linear. He does not exist in time the same way we do. So to say that God knows what will happen is not accurate. I believe that God exists in all time. Meaning that he exists now, he exists in the past and he exists in the future. He doesn't know what will happen in the future, he's already there.

And that reminds me of another point. I don't get why there are two camps on the Bible. One believes that the Bible is literal. The other believe it is metaphorical. Why can't it be both? Some stories are literal and some metaphoric.

Answer 3

He created us for an identical reason dad and mom have babies. think of roughly your next paragraph. If God is familiar with all that, do no longer you think of in line with danger He has a plan to stop it? As for good and evil, those are completely human strategies. what's evil to you may no longer be so undesirable to me. So who may well be the decide of what's robust and what's evil?

Answer 4

You have to give God credit for knowing what He is doing|


He created Eve later so that Adam would initially feel the void that something was missing and that animals alone could not satisfy him|

He was so happy when Eve was brought to him because it filled that void|


He would not have appreciated that in the same way unless he had the experience of what he was missing first|




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Answer 5

If God had made Eve at the same time as Adam, Adam wouldn't have appreciated her. also, God hopes that we will do the right thing. Being in God's presence should have been enough for Adam, but it wasn't.
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Answer 6

Your question is a valid one but it’s a little bit ‘sophomoric’ (if you don’t mind me saying so). God knew beforehand that Adam would discover that it wasn’t good for him to be “alone”. I suppose that God could have created Adam and Eve simultaneously and placed within Adam an “innate” knowledge that he ‘would’ have been lonely if Eve hadn’t been created at the same time. However, in that manner Adam would not have actually experienced the loneliness first hand.

Throughout the Bible it becomes clear that God is intimately concerned about the heart and soul of people. Having experienced the emotional pain or discomfort of loneliness created more of an impact on Adam’s soul than simply ‘giving’ him the ‘knowledge’ of loneliness. For example, children are taught that fire is hot, but, until a child actually ‘tests’ that knowledge by touching a hot stove one might conclude that the child hadn’t really learned the importance of the lesson until they experienced getting burned.

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Jen1981,
“do you give your kids rules, then hide from them, never making yourself visible or available to them,”

There are consequences for ‘children’s’ misbehavior (I hope). God remained just as available to His ‘children’ after they ‘sinned’ (through their disobedience) than before they sinned and remains just as available today (simply by calling on His name through Jesus Christ). The ‘blindness’ of man (for God to become ‘invisible’ to them) was caused as a result of their own sin and was just one part of the ‘curse’ placed upon mankind. Just as experiencing the pain of loneliness, Adam (and Eve) would experience the pain caused by their sin in several different ways. This was part of God’s plan all along (who knew beforehand that Adam and Eve would sin) in order for mankind to understand (through their own experience) the “Holy” and sinless nature of God. Once mankind understood their “sinful” condition they could appreciate (experientially) the ‘redemption’ that God had planned (through the sacrificial death and resurrection of His own Son) for the human race.

“and then, kill your children on a global scale with a flood when they make you angry or when they misbehave?”

Many human parents have experienced the pain of children who have gone astray. Sometimes, those children return and sometimes they never do. As humans, we don’t have that ‘foreknowledge’. God, in His ‘perfect understanding’, knew exactly when the heart of mankind (after thousands of years) had gone so far from Him and into evil that they could never turn back to God.

“Then God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that EVERY [emphasis mine] intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Gen 6:5)


“do you threaten them with an eternity of suffering if they don't follow you, believe in you and love you?”

Threaten, warn, plead with, cajole.. God reaches out to mankind in every way in order that they might be “saved”. God’s “threatening” mankind is likened to a parent watching their child standing in the middle of the street and about to be struck by a fast moving car. The frantic shout to the child to move out of the street may sound ‘harsh’, but, is in reality comes out of the parent’s heart of compassion.

Certainly, a God who sacrificed His own Son, Jesus, has done everything possible for mankind to be restored in His relationship to God. Because God created mankind with a “free will” He can not force anyone to accept His mercy.

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Answer 7

God Did Know and Does Know! He knew ages ago that you would be stupid enough to question Him, but He out of Mercy made you anyway!

Answer 8

Yeah and Eve's the one who births children. Why wasn't she made first?

Answer 9

There is a deep METAPHORIC significance to the story. It is not meant to be taken LITERALLY...

Answer 10

You're not a father, are you?
Allowing one's child to wait for something contributes to their better appreciation of it once obtained.