How come in Genesis God Lies, and the Serpent tells the truth?

Question

In the Garden of Eden God warns Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge because if they do surely they will die. The Serpent says surely you will not, die but you will become like God with the knowledge of good and evil. They eat the apple and lo and behold the Serpent was telling the truth and God it turns out was being dishonest. Even if the Bible is God's word doesn't he kind of blow it by lying in Chapter one? How can we trust him after that?

For clarification How is God being honest if he says the day you eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge surely you will die, and then this doesn't happen? The Serpent says you won't die, but will become like God knowing the difference between good and evil and this is exactly what happens. Nobody dies, but the knowledge the serpent spoke of was gained, and Adam and Eve became more similar to God.

Answer 1

YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME, SUCH IS LIFE!

Answer 2

Your information is a little off. Let me correct you before answering your question. The creation story you are referring to isn't found in chapter 1. In Chapter 1 of Genesis you can find the FIRST creation story that tells the story of the 7 days. This is a story that was written around the time of the Exile by the Jews when they were going through a very chaotic time. They needed a reminder that God can create order out of chaos. In the beginning of the story, the two things that exist before anything is water and darkness. For the Jews, there was nothing more chaotic than water or darkness. The second point of the story was to show them that part of their identity comes from the institution of a Sabbath. No other culture had that. It was part of their identity. The second story is the one that you are referring to with Adam and Eve. God told them that they would surely die. He NEVER said when they would die. He never stated if it was a physical death or a spiritual death. Both of which they experienced. Eventually, they did die. Also, they experienced a spiritual death by the consequence of their sin (separation from God). The whole story is more of an allegory than an actual event. Yes, God created the world. However, the point of this story is to show the metaphor of marriage. It answers that question that the little kid asks at the campfire, "Daddy, why are you with mommy?" In the story, that question is answered with the verse stating, "And this is why man shall leave his parents and become one with his wife." The second part of the allegory shows that there is a consequence for sins. Sins separate us from the perfect union with God. Any sin, no matter how small or large, will separate us from the union that we have with God. With Christ, that union can be restored or reconciled. God did not lie in the story of Adam and Eve. He told the truth. When we sin, we do experience spiritual death. We also, like Adam and Eve, experience physical death at one point or another in our lives. We indeed can truth God. He does not lie to us. It is against his nature to do so.

Also, one other thing before I go, there is no apple. There is only fruit mentioned in the story of Adam and Eve. The fruit remains unnamed throughout scripture. We invented the idea that it is an apple.

Answer 3

Um...Satan lied.
he misquoted what God had spoke.

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "

4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

did not say you must not eat from ANY tree in the garden?
Satan was tricking eve by misquoting God.

You will not surely die
They did. Both spiritualy and eventualy physicly. him saying they wouldnt would be a lie.

I still trust God....
come on thats basic reading, anyone with an education would tell you that Satan lied there not God.

Answer 4

This is just one of the many inconsistencies and let’s face it silly things you will find in The Goat Herders' Guide to the Galaxy; apparently it’s still on a best seller list somewhere.
Xians will probably try to spin it thusly: the fact Adam and Eve committed bad ju-ju, went against The Man, excluded them from the living-for-ever-in-heaven club, a stupid and illogical premise.
Of course according to different parts of the Paul and Constantine’s Goat Herders' Guide to the Galaxy everyone lives for ever in any case ... either worshiping The Invisible Chappie or his boy with the holes, like robots OR rubbing shoulders with people like Gandhi, Lennon, Buddha or a few billion other people who refused to be slaves to Bronze Age dogma, who chose against the be-my-b*tch-or-go-to-hell doctrine of xianity.
Richard Dawkins once said: A universe with a God would be very different to one without.
Wouldn't it though?

Answer 5

Well Adam and Eve did die. Also so shall all of their descendants (including me and you). God did not lie.

The Serpent told Eve she shall be like God, and that she shall not die. This was not the case. This was a lie. It is a lie often still told today by many.

God did not lie. The Serpent did lie.

Answer 6

Both were telling the truth. When God told Adam, "For in the day that you eat thereof (meaning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) you shall surely die." The word "die" is sort of metaphor that refers to the physical death: it refers to the loss of innocence or ignorance. That is why when Adam and had eating the symbolical fruit, their eyes were opened and they became as gods to know good and evil. In other words upon eating the said fruit, the symbolic eyes of Adam and Eve that were opened, were not their physical pair of eyes but their "rational mind". Which means that they already lost their innocence and ignorance and attained the age or stage of reason and can already distinguish what is good and evil.

In Genesis 3:22, God sort of affirmed what the serpent told Eve, "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever."

Answer 7

The Bible talks about two types of life and two types of death. 1. Physical life is when a body and spirit are joined together. Spiritual life is when a spirit is joined with God. That is why Jesus said we must be "born again" in John 3. 2. Physical death is when a body and spirit are separated. Spiritual death is when a spirit is separated from God. Adam and Eve "spiritually died" the day they ate the fruit. John 3:4-6 "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" (5) Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. (6) Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

Answer 8

God didn't lie. As has been mentioned, Adam & Eve died both spiritually and physically. No, they didn't die right there on the spot, but they did eventually die - death up to that time was something that did not exist.

The Serpent (Satan) lied. He told Adam & Eve they would not die, but would become like God. Neither one happened. They died, and they did not become like God, but became less like Him, and increasingly sinful and rebellious.

Answer 9

Genesis 2:16-17 KJV
(16) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
(17) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

God is speaking to man in the verse above. See God did not lie.

Genesis 3:5 KJV
(5) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

The Devil is speaking here. Devil denies the fact that death will come because they eat the fruit. Man is not eternal after he eats the fruit. God gives man the ability to be eternal through Christ. His way of eternal life. The devil however thinks man will have life despite whether they eat of the tree for he believes them to be like God if they do.

Answer 10

God said that the day they eat from the tree they would die. However, Adam lived to the ripe old age of 930 years old. So this "death" God was speaking of must have been a spiritual death or a separation from God.

Answer 11

A bit pedantic...Both Adam and Eve DID eventually die. And we have inherited that 'death' gene since then.
Death was NOT in god's original plan for Adam and Eve.
so to correct things...legally, God supplied his only son to pay a ransom sdacrifice to 'buy back' that right to again live without death. God's original plan.