I know they were tempted by the devil but if they were perfect they could not be tempted cause they r perfect. So Y did they eat the apple?
2007-03-06 02:32:15 · 33 answers · asked by scloflin 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All you will get is "free will" or "best gift god ever gave us is free will"
2007-03-06 02:34:46 · answer #1 · answered by deathfromace 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eve subdues .Adam to eat it and it looked so good. and the snake liked it too if you and only one other of the opposite sex where put in a Paradise. this is all yours but do not eat the apple or else you will destroy every thing they ate the apple and had children shortly later fighting war killing destroying the planet. he gave us free will and also lust and greed the end is coming for us all we only live for about 75 years or so but every generation think it going to happen in their life time but it not life is going to stay here for a while some people think the ark was from a different planet that was destroyed by there inhabitants like our older cities where every thing is worn out.
2007-03-06 03:00:46 · answer #2 · answered by jeff i 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They made a conscious choice to allow us all to be born into the world. That was part of God's plan, to have us all enter the world and live by trial and by faith.
If Adam and Eve had not partaken of the forbidden fruit, they would have lived forever without being able to procreate and have children.
So, in a very real way, their choice was fortuitous for us. I look at there choice to eat of the fruit as a "transgression" and not necessarily a "sin." There is a subtle difference.
2007-03-06 02:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by Kerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve weren't perfect! They were created in God's image, not directly as gods. Free will and temptation helped them arrive at the foolish conclusion and reasoning that it was OK to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
2007-03-06 05:27:06 · answer #4 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry. None of the bibles I read indicate that Adam and Eve were "perfect." They were created with free will that was exercised when tempted by Satan. It was this exercise of free will that led to them being expelled from Eden. It was the breaking of the relationship between man and God that existed prior to that time.
2007-03-06 02:38:26 · answer #5 · answered by docholiday 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would you have rather been forced to love and worship God? A God who had total control over your existence? A God who asks a certain code of conduct from you?
What happens when someone forces us or coerces us or bribes us to do something we're really not crazy about doing?
Think of it this way: You're married and you love your wife, you want to make her happy, but............she has just told you that you have to go to this family thing with her, no ifs, and or buts. But it's on the day you had already planned out, weeks in advance mind you! You're going to the football game with your buds that day, tickets are bought and everything! She doesn't care, this just came up and your attendance is extremely important to her, in fact it's vital to her. She can't help the scheduling, it just happened that way. She pouts, she moans, she cries, she withholds sex!!!!!! She is making you absolutely miserable, beyond belief. So you go. Did you have a good time? Did you make the best of it? There's always other games, right?
Chances are you went and you grunted at everybody and every chance you get, you rub her nose in it about how much you gave up. Is that love? Maybe, in a twisted, distorted way.
But what if she asked you? She explained how important it was and she gave you the final choice. No strings attached. No pouting, no crying, no withholding anything. Wouldn't you feel better knowing you had a choice? That there was an option that made you feel in control?
Would God be God if He didn't give us that same choice? I don't think so.
It might sound like the same old answer, and it is, 'cuz God doesn't change but it makes perfect sense to me. 'Cuz God couldn't be a God worthy of my love, my devotion and my worship without giving me the choice to come to Him on my own. Freely, with no strings attached. That's all.
Adam and Eve were perfectly created in God's image, but they had to decide for themselves who they were going to love freely. God already knew that. And He loved us that much, He gave us a choice. He also knew that He could provide for us a way to choose Him. That choice is Christ.
Everybody seems to moan at how much you have to 'give up' to become a Christian. I haven't given up anything. I've gotten more. And what's to bawl about giving up anyway? Ohhhh, I'm not supposed to hate people or rob from them or kill them. I'm supposed to be nice and care about others. Well, heck!!!!!!!!! Wouldn't the world be a lot better without the hatred? Wouldn't the world be a better place if we loved our neighbors like we love ourselves?
So what have I lost by accepting Christ? NOTHING!!!! What have I gained? EVERYTHING!!!!!
Have a great day!
2007-03-06 03:01:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's a theory from a storytelling point of view: in ancient tales, the serpent represented the most basic, primordial instinct, especially in women. In other words, the snake wasn't a devil, it was Eve's own instinct telling her there was something important about the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, something that God was hiding from them, holding back. And that God really wouldn't kill them like he said. Which he didn't.
2007-03-06 02:42:31 · answer #7 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were not perfect. The Bible never says that. What it does say is that they did not know the difference between good and evil. Completely different. A baby does not know right from wrong, but they are not perfect.
2007-03-06 02:36:22 · answer #8 · answered by Licia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise........
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked......
(Old Testament | Genesis 3:5 - 7)
22 ¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.......
(Old Testament | Genesis 3:22)
From the above verses, I can conlude that Adam and Eve is not perfect at all, because they are not ashame to be naked, and they do not know good or evil before the partake of the fruit.
They took the fruit because they want to be wise like God. So to be perfect like God, you have to know what is good and what is evil. Just as God said in the verse above," And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil........."
2007-03-06 08:25:50 · answer #9 · answered by Wahnote 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They chose to believe thy lies of Lucifer.And by believing those lies, they sinned. God gave us all free will to choose right from wrong, even Adam and Eve. By choosing to disobey God,Adam and Eve were no longer perfect and brought sin into the Garden of Eden and before God.
2007-03-06 02:40:37 · answer #10 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No where does it say they were perfect in mind heart and soul they were just children as we are but the man was suppose to be smarter but he probably let his lower head think for his big head like we do today also because he blamed it on the woman when God called for him ..."it was that woman you gave meeee!! waaa wwaaaaa wwaaa Genesis 3.12
2007-03-06 02:46:04 · answer #11 · answered by manoman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋