Could this omnipotent God not think of another way of saving his only son that it had to send him down to die for some symbolic sin. An omnipotent God would be able to do anything it wants to, but yet it chooses a path in which someone must die.
For those who believe in the Adam and Eve story how could mankind continue on with Adam and Eve having two boys. That would mean we are all byproducts of inbreds that God put on this earth. Clearly they did not have a choice if they were to continue mankind. I know this type of stuff was common back then, but didn't God clearly set them up. Wouldn't incest mess up your genes. How did we get people of different races?
2007-04-02 17:40:13 · 4 answers · asked by keaton f 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The only way for any of this to make sense would be if God did not exist. That would make Jesus wrong about being the son of God, which would go a long way toward explaining why he was executed.
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2007-04-05 06:41:45 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wait a minute, What are you asking?
If the story is symbolic (as I believe it is), We can still be sinful in nature, thus in need of salvation.
And there are hundreds of questions here on Y!Answers about Adam and Eve and their children. In a nutshell:
Wives were created for Cain and Seth et al.
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There were other people, like the ones the mark of Cain protects him from.
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There were daughters that the boys could marry because the rules weren't written yet (possibly, there weren't any genetic diseases yet, so incest wouldn't be a problem yet.)
And there are some other answers to. But just do a search, and you'll find them.
So, yes Adam and Eve can be symbolic, yes, Jesus could still be needed, and yes, there are possible explanations for humanity coming from Adam and Eve.
2007-04-03 01:35:36 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Bad Day 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, lets go into this deeper than adam and eve. i believe that evolution and creation go hand in hand... follow me here...
evolution has been proven, there were cavemen long before the days of adam and eve, and modern man. God creates the planet, things mutate and grow (evolution). supposedly, i cant verify this because i wasnt there obviously, each day that God did his creating was 1000 years. if that is the case the cavemen and women would have occured naturally through evolution. then comes the day that God creates adam and eve. they have children. now the bible states that the sons of God married the daughters of men. does this mean that adam and eves sons mated with the cavewomen? we may never know, but it would be a logical explanation to the missing link. there is a point where science cant explain why we went from cavemen to modern man without anything inbetween. no one will know for sure until we die when all will be revealed to us, but so far this has been the most logical reasoning that makes sense to me.
2007-04-05 14:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by kristeena911 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story of Adam and Eve while not necessarily factual still tells the spiritual truth that the first human beings (who ever they were) disobeyed the commandment of God, choosing to follow their own will rather than God's will.
As a consequence they lost the grace of original holiness, and became subject to the law of death; sin became universally present in the world.
Besides the personal sin of "Adam and Eve," original sin describes the fallen state of human nature which affects every person born into the world, and from which Christ, the "new Adam," came to redeem us.
With love in Christ.
2007-04-04 18:46:27 · answer #4 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋