With Adam and Eve they were made to have free choice. But what is free choice without choices? Is this why god made the Tree of Knowledge?
The whole thing seems malevolent as he created such a thing for the "sole purpose" to test his creations.
Can god really blame them? "Satan" is known to be very powerful and influential with his words.
The whole thing seems that god overreacted when he himself set the stage for such an event to happen.
2007-03-18 14:30:09 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fairytale.
2007-03-18 14:34:32 · answer #1 · answered by Atheist Eye Candy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You know, i don't get angry when people complicate the living of Christianity i get more concerned. Its really not a complicated thing at all. As you already know we have had choices from the very beginning and i love what u said about GOD orchestrating the whole thing with Adam and Eve. See you have to have a relationship with this awesome GOD to know or to see where HE going with this...... because In the end HE just wants to show us that HE is GOD that HE can do all things but fail. HE wants to see who will willfully choose HIM or choose Satan HE has given us life to choose and also death. hmmmm honestly my friend if HE says He's life and that we should choose life doesn't it mean that anything outside of HIM is death. you see we cause things on ourselves IF GOD didn't think that we were able to discern right from wrong HE certainly would not have given us an option. ahahaha Adam and Eve didn't even need the tree of knowledge of good and evil because they already "KNEW" the fact that they were able to tell Satan that GOD said not to touch this thing meant that they knew already what good and evil was, now they were only left with a choice to do good or to choose evil this really resembles the same choices we have to make each day.
2007-03-18 14:49:45 · answer #2 · answered by Spirited 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created the Tree of Knowledge so Adam and Eve could have a choice - Him or the tree? Forced love is not love at all.
Without a choice, Adam and Eve would have been programmed robots, programmed to love God. And programmed love is not love, do you get me? He knew they were going to eat of the Tree, true. But it wasn't to "test his creations", but to give Adam and Eve the freedom of choosing between His word or to eat from the tree. How can there be a free choice without choices? He warned them, gave them a chance, they failed, and really, he did not overreact. He tossed them out of Eden so they wouldn't eat from the Tree of Life and live forever in a sinful state. It was for their own good. He took care of them, still, though - It always reminded me of my mom after I've done something wrong. All those punishments she gave me when I did wrong built my Christian character, and molded me into what I am now. It is the same with Adam and Eve, and on down the generations to us ourselves. That's why God was so hard on the Israelites - to build them up, and prepare them for Jesus's coming.
2007-03-18 14:49:51 · answer #3 · answered by Evanescence16 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The highest moral known to man is love. The best possible choices of worlds in which love can be demonstrated requires that God gives man choices, unfortunately, a draw back is that the opposite of love is possible which is selfishness (aka. Pride). This means a world with the choice to love or not means that evil can also exist.
I could go further into this but, this answers your question.
Thanks for the privilege to answer you question.
Mark
2007-03-18 14:50:25 · answer #4 · answered by neofreshmao 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A. Don't take the Bible literally, especially not Genesis.
B. Free choice is what you make of it. Gift or curse, it's an option and you get to chose which it is.
C. Whether you chose to see it my way or not, my personal opinion is that the Bible is a set of stories to give us direction as to how to live a moral life and is not completely the word or God, if at all. See? I'm exercising my free will by thinking that.
Lastly, your comment on Satan is not fully formed, what do you want us to say on that subject? Besides, Satan loves God. He is God's loyal servant and morns the day they were separated. However, someone had to teach us (Hell) how to love God. That's what Hell is, a place of enlightenment before we go to Heaven. Satan is our final teacher.
2007-03-18 14:40:02 · answer #5 · answered by Sirius Black 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If we were created without choices we would be puppets. The real point to the fall of Adam and Eve is obedience. Adam and Eve didn't have to turn the earth for it to grow what they needed. They were in charge of the animals and walked the earth WITH God. They were in harmony with his spirit. They were made perfect in his image. The Tree of Knowledge was a tree they were told not to eat from. He didn't set them up, they DISOBEYED. Then suffered the consequences of their actions. Remember God was going to destroy his creation since they turned so wicked. The flood, but he found favor in Noah and promised to never do that again.
Overreacted? I guess I have overreacted when my children have disobeyed me and it cost them their life?
God Bless
2007-03-18 14:38:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
With Adam & Eve doing the only think of God mentioned to no longer and Cain killing Abel, you'll be grateful God permit the human race proceed and characteristic a determination of no remember if or to no longer persist with Him. some peo[ple are grateful and a few people take existence for granite. think of what you choose yet you in all probability might have achieved the incorrect ingredient additionally
2016-10-02 08:41:59 · answer #7 · answered by logston 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is both a gift and a curse for some of us "sinners". I try to be good, and some times I make mistakes along the way. I do think God has a sense of humor, he did after all, create us in His image.
2007-03-18 14:38:47 · answer #8 · answered by Battlerattle06 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is God's gift....humans either use the free will as a gift or as a curse. The story is a symbolic story about good vs. evil. I wouldn't read too much else into the story other than we all come from one DNA line (which has been proven by science).
2007-03-18 14:36:42 · answer #9 · answered by Greenwood 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Free will is free will........you have the right to choose your actions and your path
No one is Testing You........this is a process of evolution.
As you learn and accumulate more awareness you become
a more evolved soul, that can share this awareness with all
other consciousness. That is the sole purpose of the soul.
2007-03-18 14:46:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The inclination towards evil that is part of human nature is quite explicitely a curse. This inclination causes people to choose evil. However, it is not the ability to make any kind of choice, rather it is the inability to choose good that is a curse.
2007-03-18 14:35:19 · answer #11 · answered by Steve 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋