If GOD is all knowing, all powerful, and knowing the future, why was Satan, a creation of GOD, able to disrupt the plan of the earthly paradise so easily in the Garden of Edan?
It MUST have been part of the plan because purfection makes no mistakes.
2007-04-02 11:27:20 · 17 answers · asked by Gardner? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
if they had no knowledge of good and evil, then how was it a "free will" or choice? If I was to pick a football game or baseball, and had never heard of either, I sure wouldn't know what to pick and it wouldn't be a free will until I knew what each game was.
2007-04-02 13:43:46 · update #1
Well God does know the future, and yes it was part of his plan, but He's still God no matter how you feel about it or how you look at it. Satan didn't disrupt his plan, God knows the end of all things, he wasn't taken by surprise. Lucifer decided he wanted to be worshipped. If God created beings that had no free will, people would complain, Humans are so fickle , never satisfied, arguing and turning their backs on the true God, because their hearts are hardened. Its good to ask questions just do some more studying
2007-04-02 11:54:31 · answer #1 · answered by Tae's Wifey 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Why do you think the serpent was Satan? The text never states that. Read that story very carefully, and use an older Bible version like the King James, because newer versions have tampered with the text. In the story why does Yahweh not want A&E to gain knowledge of good and evil? Why does Yahweh lie to them and tell them that if they eat of the fruit they shall die that very day? Why did Yahweh banish A&E from the garden? Hint: It wasn't original sin. Did the serpent actually lie at all, or did everything he told Eve would happen, actually happen? Could it be that this was God's plan, but that God was working through the serpent, and that Yahweh is not God?
People have been indoctrinated into believing that this story is about something that is not supported by the text itself.
2007-04-02 11:40:09 · answer #2 · answered by Wisdom in Faith 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was part of the plan. God made man with a free will to choose. That's what makes us human. Man chose the apple. Did God know that man would make this choice? yes. Why then did God even bother to create man in the first place? good question. I won't be getting 2 points for answering that one.
2007-04-02 11:32:51 · answer #3 · answered by valetrat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep in mind that the story of Adam and Eve is there to provide insight into God and God's relationship with human kind. God provided all that is good and with that provided Adam and Eve with freedom to choose. God didn't demand that they obey. God wanted Adam and Eve to choose God.
God over what.......God over evil. The story depicts this as a snake of evil, slittering, slimmy and mischievous. You know the rest. By are very nature, we are curious and tempted and , at times, not able to follow God's way.
God, being all of the above, also gave us free will and we at times test free will.
2007-04-02 11:38:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil one (Satan) entered the human mind when Adam and Eve ate the fruit (knowledge of good and evil) which GOD (all powerful) had forbidden them from having.
Humans had a chance to be free of evil, but we gave into the temptation of Satan!
Jesus came to earth to free us from this sin. Through the death of Jesus and his resurrection, humans finally have hope for salvation!
2007-04-02 11:45:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan has tempted all women and men including the Garden of Eden.
God was not surprised by the deception or the response of Eve and Adam.
2007-04-02 11:34:58 · answer #6 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Judaism, where the story of Gan Eden (Garden of Eden) comes from, Satan is not a separate entity of G-d per se but rather a human adversity, who exists to test humans. Satan tested Adam and Eve, and they failed, as we all do sometimes.
2007-04-02 11:33:48 · answer #7 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was disrupted by man's disobedience. Man did not have to succumb to Satan. He was tempted. He believed the devil's lies rather than God's truth.
The devil was an angel once and pride was found in him. He conned 1/3 of the angels in Heaven to follow him in revolt against God. He made his own decision. The angels who fell made their own decisions.
Adam and Eve made their own decisions. And here we are.
God knew all this ahead of time.
Why He allowed it to happen? Who knows?
2007-04-02 11:45:18 · answer #8 · answered by runner1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course it was part of the plan silly, if God willed, he could've made us all perfect, but he didnt this was all planned out. He made Satan tempt them for a reason, he made Adam and Eve fall into Satan's evil plot for a reason. to test us
2007-04-02 11:36:22 · answer #9 · answered by riaz4918 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will was given to Adam and Eve...had they said no, the plan wouldn't have been disrupted...however God doesn't want any to be lost and provided another plan in His only begotten Son Jesus Christ and we still have the same choice/free will today.
2007-04-02 11:31:44 · answer #10 · answered by cbmultiplechoice 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋