HI,
God gave Adam and Eve this whole garden to live and only one rule, then God told them that if you eat from the tree you will positively die, the serpent told Eve you will not die but be like God. The serpent Tempted Eve by telling her she would be like God and she was thoroughly deceived, I don't think it was curiousity rather than wanting to be like God knowing good from bad. God didn't plan for this to happen the serpent played on their weakness curiousity maybe but God didn't plan on this to happen.
LAmmy
2007-03-24 07:47:02
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answered by Clammy S 5
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It always amuses me when somebody says "think about it", especially when asking a question that anyone with the slightest curiosity would have already thought about.
I'm thinking it goes something like this. God would have already known the decision that Adam was going to make, but Adam didn't. He was given the opportunity to take God at his word, or to be greedy and eat the one fruit he was expressly forbidden from eating. If Adam had gone the other way, God would have known that beforehand too. God didn't make Adam do anything. Adam had free choice. That's the way he was designed. Which, I suppose is why God is not a control freak.
This has been presented merely as an argument against your argument. I'm not sure how much of the story of Adam and Eve I really believe, and how much is a metaphor for how we, as humans, have screwed up the world.
2007-03-24 08:12:52
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answered by the universe 5
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Don't you just love deductive reasoning? It is mans way of making red into blue and then a purple cat if they wish.
GOD wants willing company. That is why we were created. The end result is that Heaven will be filled with willing company.
There is two paths we can travel in this life. Our will or GOD's will. We are 100% free to choose whatever path we will walk.
Just because GOD has already seen the movie and knows how it will end doesn't mean we shouldn't see it. That's insane. We can see the movie. GOD will not spoil it for us.
P.S. I don't care how I got here but I do rejoice every day that I am chosen to be a child of GOD. There is no higher calling in life.
2007-03-24 07:54:57
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answered by Anonymous
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God did know that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit. In fact, this transgression was essential to bring about God's purposes. This action brought a number of changes into the world that were necessary for our growth and development.
Because of God's forknowledge of these events, He also prepared a way through the Atonement of Jesus Christ for us to return to Him.
2007-03-24 07:56:33
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answered by Bryan Kingsford 5
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That's a good question!
According to legend...God gave mankind the ability to make their own decisions without the present knowledge and intervention of Him...this is called "free will."
With this said you now know what happened here. But the plot thickens.
Why would God make it for all eternity for man to be punished for the sin of his forbearers? To me "free will" and "original sin" are loophole closers and an assurity of the next generation to be included and brought up in the faith by baptism, thus supporting the "cause" for all time.
Good luck in your search for the truth!
2007-03-26 04:06:39
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answered by truthseeker 3
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Please read Boeintner's masterpiece called:
"Evangelism and the Soverignty of God. "
It is about 1100 pages and deals with your question. Do you really expect anyone to give a complex and complete answer in only a few lines?
Do you really expect that the mind that fashoned and created this universe can be disected like an single celled organism.
2007-03-24 13:35:01
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answered by free2bme55 3
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While I won't deny that God can see into the future, it doesn't mean he always does. If he were to see everything we were to ever do, and then intervene to prevent wrong things, that would be taking away our free will, which God's sense of justice will not allow. Even God follows His own rules.
2007-03-24 07:56:26
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answered by Epitome_inc 4
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Many cultures believe that as a myth. "The One Who Gave us Life" is not a magician. He needed to build a big factory, the Universe in order us to exist. Now all of us are sons of Him, with the possibility to become to arrive to Him in Plenitude, where there are no matter, no space no time, but Plenitude. So lets find the Truth, grow a lot in spiritual way and become to be in "The One Who Gave us Life" I will send my book "AWARENESS" as a gift if you ask me to do that
2007-03-24 08:00:37
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answered by Anonymous
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I dont have an answer exactly but I have asked the same question and i'm sure you've gotten the stupid answers from people. free will but since god gave free will knowing what we would do punishing people is just way the church has gained control over the mass. its all about power
2007-03-24 07:51:26
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answered by chiefmoe 2
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There is NO such thing as original sin!
That's just another lie and deception of a religion!
Here's How anyone can prevail OVER religion:
Create a private, personal, direct, divine Relationship with Our Creator and save your Soul from religion.
Only with Our Creator's Love and Peace will we be Truly Free!
Without God, there is No Love; Without religion, there are No Wars!
"religion is Spiritual fraud"; "religion is the Worse invention of humanity" - Jesus Christ, Buddha and any one else with Spiritual intelligence.
2007-03-24 07:47:59
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answered by drwooguy 3
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