If you know the story of Adam and Eve, it says there that they were in a paradise but when they ate the forbidden apple, God sent them away as a punishment. Just in case they never ate it, what will our lives be???
2007-05-29 01:59:52 · 14 answers · asked by Foemelle 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
This is an interesting question - but it probably belongs in 'philosophy' or 'religion', not 'history'.
All cultures and religions have differing creation myths, but not all strive to address why their Creator made an imperfect world. In other words, if their is an all-powerful God, why didn't he just 'pass GO' and create end-state Eden or Heaven or Nirvana or whatever that religions ideal state is? 'Original Sin' is one way to address that - it wasn't God's fault, it was our fault. I think it says more about Western religions that they feel they need to address this question - so life is a struggle to attain sinless perfection. However, many Eastern religions accept imperfection duality as part of life - it's something to seek balance with not dominion over. In both interpretations, though, there is 'work to be done'.
To answer your question in this light, if you were to view Adam and Eve literally and posit that they did not commit the original sin, I agree with others that it would be boring - incredibly boring. We would be at one 'ideal state' already and have no need to 'work' at improving our lot - whatever that work might be.
2007-05-29 02:28:52 · answer #1 · answered by ModMan65 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everybody knows about the pre-Adamites, the most evolved species of the 5th day of Creation. In other words, if Adam and Eve would not have eaten the apple, the favourite monkey of God would have remained in the same status as the pre-adamites, simple hunters and cave painters. No way a creature so refined and complex as the peak of our evolution would have appeared and by that I mean Tom Waits
2007-05-29 02:12:01 · answer #2 · answered by Corici M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God placed the tree of expertise in the backyard as a try of obedience, loyalty, and nevertheless God knew the two Holy pair could fail He nevertheless had to do it in any different case there could have been no way of understanding no count if or not they could be honest or not. every day we are additionally beset with an identical decision and greater circumstances than not we fail. basically with the aid of fact God knows the top result does not make it a foregone end, or fastened, its basically that He knows the top result. we could desire to continuously take super convenience in the certainty that God knows all as he's continuously working for us to stay away from the incorrect judgements we make and each and every time we do he's there working to steer us in the properly suited way. And the fact He knows each and every snare devil lays for us potential He can, returned, put in place a manner of get away.
2016-10-30 01:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't be wondering how a snake managed to talk without vocal chords. I wouldn't be amazed that people actually take literally the idea that Eve was carved from Adam's rib (do they think she was 5 inches tall?). I wouldn't have to wonder why it is that religious leaders believe that god can punish people today for what was done thousands of years ago by others, but that the murder and slavery carried out by our great-great-grandfathers has nothing to do with us....
2007-05-29 02:27:58 · answer #4 · answered by llordlloyd 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Exactly the same, for the story of Adam and Eve is not historically correct. It is merely one of many myths that ancient peoples made to explain their history. and why good and evil existed in the world around them. They knew nothing of archaelogy or the real age of the world. There never was a Garden of Eden.
2007-05-29 02:07:38 · answer #5 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If they would have never eaten it, we would live in paradise still (unless something else happened that got us kicked out) and we would all be running around naked :) people are saying that they found a planet in another galaxy that is very similar to earth and they are pretty sure it has water on it wich means theres a very good chance there is life... what if the people on this planet were set up the same way as us by God but nobody ever ate the apple? wierd. I would like to go there
2007-05-29 02:05:48 · answer #6 · answered by Lissa 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't recall that they specifically ate an apple, but I can say this much, we would live forever. We'd never get sick, we'd never get old. There'd be no infidelity, there'd be no grief and no enmity among ourselves. There'd be no poverty and no war--no killing. . . We'd be perfect. Read the book of Genesis; you see that Adam and Eve were perfect and had everything they needed. That would have continued if they hadn't betrayed God.
2007-05-29 02:13:06 · answer #7 · answered by Raingirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Bradx. If A & E didn't eat the apple, someone in the next generation would have. God had to know what human nature was, after all, he is all knowing and he created humans. Therefore, the "fall from grace" and into sin was inevitable.
2007-05-29 02:07:33 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The world would not have downfalled - the spiritual significance says that its not just one man or one women or an apple or a serpent - Its the general case of men and women who desired for worldly pressures
In true sense if people had not desired the worldly pressures then the world would be much peaceful and happy than what we are seeing today
2007-05-29 02:05:05 · answer #9 · answered by Angel 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We will be a bunch of idiots and morons that listen to God orders only.
2007-05-29 02:05:56 · answer #10 · answered by Booooo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋