Yahweh (God) created Adam and then created Eve for Adam after he got lonely. They were created "perfect" which, apparently, only means that they were born "sinless" (though many would also assert that they were born physically and psychologically perfect). They lived in the Garden of Eden. God created a tree that represented his absolute right to decide what's right and what's wrong, the Tree of Knowledge, and forbade Adam and Eve to eat from it. Satan, the Devil, Beelzebub, whatever you want to call him, he showed up and duped Eve into eating from the tree. Adam then knowingly disobeyed Yahweh.
For their one crime, God entirely reworked the first couple, changing them from a state of perfect grace to one where they were utterly trapped in sin and literally incapable of avoiding it - he removed their ability to obey his word, permanently added a variety of irresistible sinful inclinations to their hearts, and then extended that punishment to all of their innocent descendants throughout time. He then stated that our punishment for being what he had made us into was eternal damnation. We have been punished for something someone else did.
2007-05-29 21:26:17
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answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7
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You are definitely wrong in your comments.
The whole story of Adam, Eve and God is a very long story to tell in this section. It will consume 3 days and 3 nights to tell it to you. Any way, it is useless to tell it to you because our efforts will be useless since you have said that You do not believe in God. So, there is no need to let you tell the story.
jtm
2007-05-29 21:25:04
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answered by Jesus M 7
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This is the story. God made the world. He made Adam out of dirt. He took Adam's rib out and made that into Eve. God told Adam and Eve not to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. The serpent tricked Eve into doing it, and Eve convinced Adam to do it too. Then God kicked them out of Eden. Ironically, he didn't kick the serpent out of Eden, but instead took away its legs.
2007-05-29 21:18:27
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answered by Anonymous
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Read Genesis Chapter 3.
All the omnis are there. The good part is a given.
2007-05-29 21:20:55
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answered by great gig in the sky 7
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The correct account of creation is not in Genesis, it is in The Apocryphon of John. That is why the god of Genesis is not Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, or benevolent. Be smart, reject the god of Moses, he is not the Father of Jesus.
2007-05-29 21:24:02
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answered by single eye 5
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Creation stories are ubiquitous and they are even the same as Adam and Eve.
2007-05-29 21:18:19
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answered by Anonymous
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lets put it this way as you know Adma & Eve were the first people in Eden & they were the first couple they were wedded by God.
2007-05-29 21:19:49
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answered by Dave B 5
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I'm not sure if I'd use the "omni" words necessarily. I read an interesting quote today which I already knew but it said it again quite nicely. We know what God is like because
Isaiah writes that God knows his own purposes. Isaiah 46:10 - "I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, 'My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.'" That doesn't necessarily mean that he knows anybody else's although people are fairly readable. He can raise people up to do his purpose even if they are not his worshipers, as in Habakkuk 1.
According to Genesis 3, God is not omniprescent, otherwise he would have been there when Adam and Eve were eating. He only came through afterwards.
There is a word used in Hebrews 6 which means "impotent" among other things. It literally means "not dynamic." It is translated in NIV as "impossible", as in "it is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit etc. to be brought back to repentance." I think the point here is that it's not dynamic, as opposed to the displays of the Kingdom in power as Paul said that he brought with him in his ministry, not just words. Public confessions and apologies after misbehaviour are not what draw people to Christianity. Healings do. I wonder how God would have healed Adam and Eve, if they hadn't gone all stagey with the dressing up as trees business. They could have tried James 4 - humbling themselves and mourning. I think they went for the laughter approach.
Jehovah's Witnesses take a very "it would have either turned out this way or that way" approach, which is black and white thinking. Either people would have lived forever in Paradise, or they spoiled it, which is what happened. Cults use black and white thinking to make decisions. It reminds me of cladistics, which relies on binary nodes to represent growth. This is slow growth and it relies on rebellion. Evolve means "unroll." Revolt means "roll over." I think it's got to do with the meaning of vehicles as well. Rebel means "renew a war."
Using the metaphor from Habakkuk 1, and what 1 Corinthians 8:1 says about knowledge - it puffs up, versus love which builds up, it seems that a lightless approach to growth looks like a dragnet.
Habakkuk 1:15, 16
The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad. Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.
Knowledge is like cladistics. In Zen, sex and meditation have been divided into two separate disciplines as each gives a lift to the other. This is like the philosophy that criminals engage in while they're waiting for their next instructions. Knowledge is scary, so people like to close it down. Compare Romans 1, which shows that one of the stages that lead to homosexual behaviour is claiming to be wise, although being foolish (verse 22). Fools chatter. Proverbs 10:8 - "The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin."
This is like Satan holding families in his hand, as in pleonekteo of 2 Corinthians 2:11 and kosmokrator of Ephesians 6:12. Mythology is the enemy in the Bible. (2 Timothy 4:3-5; 1 Timothy 1:4) Mythology makes use of psychic images strung together with words that provide coherence from different perspectives. These strings of words might be philosophy. In any event, mythology uses images as if they represent public behaviour as a mime. It began, according to Karen Armstrong, author of "A Short History of Myth," when homo sapiens became homo necans, man the killer. A type of false humility described in Colossians is: "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!" This is in verses 20-23.
"These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence."
It is possible that the serpent deliberately refrained from touching the piece of fruit, as it meant that he respected it and, by implication, Adam and Eve's procreative powers. I just read yesterday that life-death-rebirth myths originated or have to do with the story of Cain and his fruit offering to God. The other thing is that Satan could have been using "spotter's fee" ethic, where he could offer commentary based on his expert appraisal of the potential he saw in a superior piece of fruit. It's an odd sort of morality. God made everything, but Satan thinks he's special because he noticed that it was good and went ahead to claim worship for God's doings, instead of just saying "thank you." So this is what we are asked to do, for example, in Psalms 50.
Anyway, I've put a link to the first chapter of Genesis below. Just go onto the next couple of chapters as well, which contains the story. Chapter 4 goes onto talk about Cain and Abel.
2007-05-29 21:40:33
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answered by MiD 4
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http://www.salrachele.com/webchannelings/foundersonearthhistorypart3.htm
2007-05-29 21:24:41
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answered by oneinunity 4
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It's a fairytale, deal with it.
2007-05-29 21:24:13
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answered by Bert 3
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