Seriously. What was the point? Why not put it just outside the Garden where Adam and Eve couldn't go? Or better yet, if it was so dangerous, why did God bother putting it on Earth at all?
Also, why did God bother with it when he would have known ahead of time that Adam and Eve would eat from it?
2007-05-17 11:51:17 · 41 answers · asked by Dazcha 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's part of God's master plan to shift the blame of his imperfection onto his children.
You see lots of parents doing this.
2007-05-17 11:55:03 · answer #1 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
The god of the bible has limits and he does not know everything. He was conducting an experiment to "see" how obidient his newly created beings were. That's why he was testing them. Analysing the scripture would reveal how limited this god is and by the fact he told or commanded them what not to do, takes away what we call freewill.
Religious people will say anything to glorify god like he is omni this & that but the scriptures does not say this about him. He only has so much amount of control. We have the same for we are also gods.
2007-05-17 12:07:18 · answer #2 · answered by Jahfrog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When God created Adam, He knew very well that they would make a mistake eventually. He knew that they would forget His warning and eat the one tree they were not supposed to eat from.
This was all done because God was planning on testing mankind on earth, long before He created them.
2007-05-17 11:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by Antares 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Look, God is funny ok, and we're too limited to understand. We don't even use ten percent of our brain capacity, well some do, but those would Einsteins.
As Peppa J answered it's a myth, a story of creation. But it is scientific, we just have to decipher the meaning.
See religions, ancient ones are scientific. But only the elect can see the real meaning.
2007-05-17 12:04:47 · answer #4 · answered by Ditis 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you a parent? Havent you ever left out a crack pipe on the kitchen counter and told your children not to touch it, then left them alone to see what happened??
thats basically what God did!! Placed the temptation right in front of us, tempted us, then punished us for it. Cruel, evil God he is, huh?
Free will has nothing to do with WHY God putt the tree there in the first place!!! Unless you speak of God's free will to entrap mankind!
2007-05-17 12:01:57 · answer #5 · answered by Athiests_are_dumb 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Free will. What would bring God glory: robots who do exactly what they're programmed to do, or individuals who can choose whether or not to obey him, and then some do? No one can know the mind of God, except to know that he has a perfect plan and he knew they would disobey. Even though he knew they'd disobey, he also had a redemption plan in place.
He gave humans free will so that when we decide to obey and worship him, it brings him glory.
2007-05-17 11:59:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good question. The story of Adam and Eve, is just ridiculous.
2007-05-17 12:06:00 · answer #7 · answered by RainbowGirl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Think about this...
Your God didn't want his "creations" to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. He didn't want them to know... How can you believe in something that wished for nothing more than the perpetual ignorance of the human race?
To quote Hedwig and the Angry Inch: "Eve just wanted to know sh*t."
2007-05-17 12:01:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Think about it . It is very important. That tree was placed there in the middle of the garden so that we humans could prove our obedience to God and demonstrate our need to respect his commandments for his worshippers ( all humans )
2007-05-17 11:58:17 · answer #9 · answered by djfjedi1976 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He couldn't be accused of being immoral and holding out on them, truthfully. it was the tree of the knowledge of GOOD and EVIL, not just knowledge; they weren't ignorant of everything else. He made them beings, so they have free will morally. so they had to be able to choose whether they wanted to trust God or not.
2007-05-17 11:59:45 · answer #10 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because then they couldn't be obedient. If you tell your kids not to eat the cookies, but there are no cookies, how can you boast that they are good kids that listen to you, they didn't have a choice! So it's there to prove they were obedient, but in this case, they were disobedient. God knows what is going to happen to the ends of time. He created us to have free will worship and fellowship, through faith.
2007-05-17 11:55:09 · answer #11 · answered by Julia 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋