2007-05-09 03:39:49 · 21 answers · asked by rremente 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is an allegory for the loss of innocence we all experience as children when we begin to see the right from wrong, and you can never go back to that paradise. I believe in the story of Adam and Eve they do not have a concience because they do not have any concept of wrong.
2007-05-09 03:47:52 · answer #1 · answered by Dan the Man 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Of course they did, but you do understand that there was no "fruit-eating" as part of their sin, right? Not hardly. Its amazing to me how many people believe that they ate fruit and God condemned them for it!
When I was brought up Catholic, we had a picture on the chalkboard with Eve eating an apple.
Then I began 35+ years as a disiplined student of the manuscripts and found out there wasn't any apple involved.
After Adam and Eve sinned, they tied fig leaves together to make what? A mask to hide their mouths because they ate fruit?
No. They made aprons to cover their private parts - those parts that participated in that sin they were so ashamed of.
The story of Adam and Eve, and understanding the full truth of it, is the foundation for just about every other message in the Bible. If people believe that the sin was disobeying God by eating fruit, then those people have almost a zero possibility of understanding clearly the rest of the Bible, guaranteed. If you start someone out with a faulty foundation, the rest of what they are building on is unstable, and will fall; then, they find inconsistancies, and things that don't make sense all thru the pages of their Bible. They pass it off by saying "some things we aren't supposed to understand yet". Not so. All things written you are supposed to understand. You just have an unstable foundation.
2007-05-09 10:51:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is like growing up in a sheltered enviorment. You naturally know running your head into a tree is a bad idea. A tiger will not like you biting his tail, even though he won't kill you (at that time). You do not know automatically know when people are lying to you.
Alone in a paradise, there was not much need for that level of conscience. Animals would not hurt them. They had perfect health. They had all they needed.
2007-05-09 11:33:42 · answer #3 · answered by grnlow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, a conscience is based on knowledge, or feeling, of what is right or wrong. so, i would say they didnt have a conscience until they had eaten from that tree. They just had life. Talk about low stress levels!!!
2007-05-09 10:48:42 · answer #4 · answered by Rob 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve did have conscience since their creation. It was pure and innocent before their fall.
2007-05-09 10:46:43 · answer #5 · answered by joey J 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They technically did but they only knew and did what God told them to do so it was limited. Eating from the tree opened thier minds up to other possibilities including good and bad. I prefer to think of them being simpletons with no imagination before they ate the fruit.
2007-05-09 10:48:28 · answer #6 · answered by Johnny 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, they were made perfect but with free-will, the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil was the test. God knew they
would fail the test and the plan was to send His Son to redeem the human race. It's because of the angelic conflict
with Satan. Satan sinned first but wasn't yet cast in to the
lake of fire. We as humans are God's great surprise to Satan.
Humans would love God and serve Him from their free volition. Not too many understand this but it's true.
2007-05-09 10:51:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes they did. The proof is in the scriptural account. The Christian scriptures state that Eve was completely deceived.
Adam was not deceived; he knew what he was doing was wrong. The fact that they covered their nudity in front of God (God's angel) when he called upon them revealed their shame in regard to their conduct -- they felt unclean. And thus they were.
And thus we became -- unclean.
2007-05-09 10:49:57 · answer #8 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No.
Because it was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Not just knowledge in general.
But remember, the tree is symbolic of temptation, and the realisation of wrong-doing after the fact, to teach you to resist. The point at which humans began to rationalise behaviour that was and was not acceptable.
2007-05-09 10:46:06 · answer #9 · answered by Bloke Ala Sarcasm 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No they didn't becuase before they ate from the tree of knowledge they didn't know of sin. They didn't know something was wrong therefore, they did not feel bad about it. It was only after they ate from the tree and God chastised them they gained a concience because then they knew good from evil.
2007-05-09 10:46:54 · answer #10 · answered by lisaandpathailey 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋