Okay, so...Adam and Eve were created "perfect" and then they sinned...?

Question

their sin was making a bad choice.... so how does a perfect being make the wrong choice?

Answer 1

Why does knowledge grow on a tree in the first place? You mean I went to school for 12 years when all I had to do was eat fruit!??!

Answer 2

Well, for one thing, I would not take that story too literally.

For another, they were fairly new to life and very inexperienced, so were probably quite naive.

There is probably more to that story, and ironically also less, than meets the eye.

I personally seriously doubt that it is about two real, literal people, tho the ones who wrote it probably meant for the common people to take it that way.

As for a perfect being sinning, there is the story of Lucifer, who had probably been around for a lot longer than Adam and Eve, and most think he was their tempter (behind the snake). He may have been millions of years old and had probably served God faithfully for most of that time, but then one day he got a wrong thought in his head and kept thinking on it, till it warped him, made him into a "Satan" or "Adversary". This led to his rebellion and eviction from Heaven. Anyway, that is how I have heard the story. He was a perfect being who made a bad choice. How it happened is really beyond my understanding. But it is easy to see how an older, much more experienced Devil could lead astray two new comers, newly created children of God.

They were created perfect, true, but that means they were without defect. It does not necessarily mean that they were therefor incapable of making a mistake, or being led astray. The tempter evidently had led his own self astray some time previously, by his wrong thinking. "How wonderful it must be to be God! I would love to be in his place!" (Something like that.)

But that story (Lucifer) is probably equally symbolic and allegorical.

Answer 3

They were perfect in body and spirit. That doesn't mean they couldn't think for themselves. They were people created in God's image and likeness with the ability to make decisions. People who choose to love, serve and obey get the affection of God. Just as in a man / wife relationship. Choice is key in relationship because you must make the decision to serve. Pet owners can have affection for their puppies who don't always do what is right but do they have they same affection for the toy puppy who always does what's right?

The bad choice is what started what we see today, just as God said. Some make the choice for life and some don't. We live in a time where the choice has been made simple but the difficult part is living a life for God.

Answer 4

That is a good question.

We can answer that by looking at the psychology of a finite being.

Any finite being sees himself at the centre of a gigantic sphere, with the most reality being apparently at the centre where he is, which fades off into non-knowledge as one recedes from that centre.

Now when that being makes a morally good choice, he transcends that sphere, recognizing it as merely a subjective structure, and then treats the rest of reality and others with the justice that is due to them.

But if that being makes a morally evil choice, he would choose not to transcend the sphere, raising the sphere to an absolute, where he consideres himself as the centre of reality, which all others must serve.

That, precisely, was the sin of Lucifer.

So a choice of evil is not a choice for pure evil for its own sake (which can never be chosen as such), but is a choice for a good, for himself alone, selfishly, at the expense of the good of others and the greater good.




.

Answer 5

Gen.3:1-5;
The tree in the midst of the garden is not to be to be touched, lest ye die.

This is a direct statement. Gen.3:19; Death is the opposite of life. The penalty
is made known.

We are innocent but born dying, we did nothing but be born to dying parents who could have been wiped out, then there would be no offsprings of Adam to have a salvation plan through Jesus.

Answer 6

It must be remembered that perfection as it relates to humans is a relative perfection,limited to the human sphere.Though created perfect,Adam could not go beyond the limits assigned him by his Creator;he could not eat dirt,gravel or wood without suffering ill effects;if he tried to breathe water instead of air,he would drown.Similarly,if he allowed his mind and heart to feed on wrong thoughts,this would lead to entertaining wrong desires and finally bring sin and death.-Jas.1:14,15

Answer 7

Easy. Satan planted the desire in Eve and it grew. Being perfect is always relative. We say perfect independence does not mean freedom from gravity. They were able to think and reason without defects or disease. They had perfect healthy bodies. They had one simple law that posed no burden on them.

Answer 8

Adam and Eve were created sinless. Just like babies are born with their sins, they are then baptised and cleaned of it. They become sinless or "perfect". However as they get older, they do worser things and then go to confession. Adam and Eve were perfect to start, but then they commited their sin by being tricked into by the Devil. That's how they became un"perfect".

Answer 9

No, the bible says they were "good", not perfect. God created them as morally free agents with the ability to sin or not to sin. They failed God's test on behalf of all mankind.

Answer 10

Did I miss a step? where does it say adam and eve were perfect? book , chapter and verse will do just fine.