IN WHAT WAY WAS THE GROUND CURSED? (Genesis 3:17)?

Answer 1

It was cursed in a way that Adam and Eve will now have to do some physical labor to survive outside the Garden of Eden. Inside the garden, everything was provided for them. Because that they've sinned, the ground was cursed and the will of Jehovah to have the whole Earth to become a Paradise was temporarily put into a hault and Adam's priviledge to have a part of making the whole earth a paradise was taken away from him. Therefore, God said to Adam, "“Because you listened to your wife’s voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. In the sweat of your face you will eat bread.”—Gen. 3:17-19.

Until today, the ground is still cursed until Jehovah put an end to this old system of things.

By the way, thanks brothers & sisters for your comments on this question. This is actually my part in the Theocratic School tomorrow night!!! AGAPE!!!!

Answer 2

The ground was cursed on Adam’s account, resulting in its producing thorns and thistles. Because of Adam and Eve’s unfaithfulness, extension of the Edenic Paradise would not happen then and there. The ground came under God’s curse. Sweat and toil were required for a person to eke out a living from the soil.

Answer 3

Remember in the beginning everything on the earth was "good" according to God.
Then because of Adam's disobedience sin came into the world, and with sin the curse.
The ground used to "bring forth abundantly" all on its own. Nobody had to till it or plant seed. All manner of fruits for food came out of the ground naturally.
This still happens today, but notice the fruit bearing trees mostly have to be tended, pruned and replanted to produce.
We don't walk up to a meadow and see waving wheat that nobody planted. A meadow in its natural state after the "fall" produces some grass and lots of weeds.
Newton calls it the "Law of Entropy", that is everything goes down if left to itself. Leave a beautiful orchard alone a few years and it becomes a weed field.
Leave a luxurious wheat field alone even 1 year and its covered with weeds.
If you have a perfect herd of purebred cattle in a field and introduce 1 mongrel cow and leave them alone, in a few years you have a herd of mongrel cows.
Nothing left to itself evolves into something higher. That's also the lie of the theory of evolution.
So the ground wasn't cursed so it doesn't produce at all, it just requires "sweat of our brow" to make most edible food grow out of it.

Answer 4

The curse reported on the floor meant that cultivating it would now substitute into very confusing. the outcomes of the cursed floor, with its thorns and thistles, have been so keenly felt via Adam’s descendants that Noah’s father, Lamech, noted “the discomfort of our hands end results of the floor which Jehovah has cursed.” (Genesis 5:29) After the Flood, Jehovah blessed Noah and his sons, pointing out His purpose that they fill the earth. (Genesis 9:a million) God’s curse on the floor became into interestingly lifted.—Genesis 13:10.

Answer 5

This is what Genesis 3:17 explains in the Torah -
Tu B'Shvat, the New Year for trees, is a time of great festivity. But why? We do not find such celebration on the New Year for vegetables or crops. What is so special about fruit?

A distinction between fruit and crops is found at the beginning of the Torah. In the utopia of the Garden of Eden, Adam was instructed that his diet would consist of fruit:

"And the Lord, God, commanded man, saying, You shall eat from any tree in the garden." (Genesis, 2:16)

When Adam sinned and fell from his lofty spiritual stature, his diet was also reduced to a lower status:

----> "And to Adam He said... The land is cursed because of you; you shall eat in suffering all your life. It shall sprout thorns and thistles for you, and you shall eat the grasses of the field." (Genesis, 3:17-18) <-----

No longer would the fruits of the trees sustain man. Now he was to live off the grasses of the field -- wheat, barley and other grains and vegetables. Upon hearing this, Adam became greatly distressed:

""When God said to Adam, It shall sprout thorns and thistles for you... his eyes streamed with tears; he said, Master of the Universe! I and my donkey shall eat from a single trough!" (Talmud, Pesachim 118a)

In the transition from a diet of fruit to one of crops, Adam perceived that he had fallen to a status approaching that of an animal. Let us look a little deeper at this difference.

More Than Meets the Eye

Answer 6

17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Up til then Adam & Eve didn't have to work, there was never a weed. But now, they will have to plow the fields, plant the crops, watch over the crops, etc....

Answer 7

It became man's responsibility to tend the ground instead of God providing. Plus, tares and weeds and etc. grew among the intended crops, making it increasingly difficult to get crops to survive and etc.

Answer 8

Cursed so that Cain and his decedents would have a hard time farming and growing crops.

Answer 9

I always imagine that that was about the time that weeds took root.