Problem of freewill in the garden of Eden?

Question

We know that "God" and the "serpent" told Adam/Eve different stories, but why was Adam/Eve more convince with what the "serpent" had to say? I mean Jesus was evilproof + has the ability to love + freewill + etc, why not create all humans with freewill + love + evilproof(sinproof)?

P.S. i know some of you christians would say that Jesus was "special", but the fact that God is omnipotent, creating all humans with freewill + love + evilproof + etc should be piece of cake to God.

Answer 1

If God is all knowing, then why did he ask Adam where he was?

Answer 2

1. Adam and Eve were not real people. If you read the entire book of Genesis you will see that the two creation stories found there do not match up.
2. The serpent represents temptation. It was not a talking snake.
3. The central issue is the desire of humans to be equal to God. This is the real meaning of the sin.
4. If people are evilproof than the do not have free will. The two cannot coexist. Jesus was not "evilproof" but was able to resist temptation, yet not without great struggle, for example, in Gethsemane.

Answer 3

Adam and Eve were NOT more convinced with what the serpent had to say.
Please read 1 Timothy 2:14
"Adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived."
Eve was more convinced by Satan, not Adam.
He made a purposeful, conscious choice to disobey.
Why? He put family ahead of his God.
He didn't trust that God could work out a solution.
Trust.

Answer 4

This is why Jesus was born of a woman....He was every bit of flesh as you and I ...He too was tempted by satan, remember in the garden when Jesus prayed Father let this cup pass from me ...but he CHOSE to drink it.... he knew the Fathers will just as Adam did.

Answer 5

If we were "evil proof" we would all be little robots...
We wouldn't have free will.

God wanted to give us the choice to love Him or not.
How can love be true love if you didn't choose it?
He gave us the choice to obey Him or not.
You can't be obedient if you're forced to, right? That's not obedience.

Unfortunately, we chose not to.
Good thing He gave us a second chance when Jesus came!

Answer 6

This life is a test, God gave us freewill to see what we would do with it. He cares that you listen to the evil whisper, but doesn't do anything about it because number one, he could crush the spirit within moments if he wanted to, and secondly, as I said before, he wants to see the respect we have for him. So basically, by letting evil presume its course, God is testing us..

Watch your back

Answer 7

Free will is a choice.
Insight into consequences is experiential.

How many times did mommy or daddy say, "See, I told you not to do that."
Mom and Dad had experience in decision making / free will.

BTW...What is "evilproof?" Never heard that term before, and it is NOT in the Bible.

Answer 8

as good as Adam was in the beginning... he was still a creation of God.

in contrast when he sent Jesus into the word... he in effect sent Himself.
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Answer 9

"To show how caring God was, along with the gift of free will, our first parents, Adam and Eve, were given everything that anyone could reasonably want. They were put in a large, parklike paradise. They had material abundance. They had perfect minds and bodies, so they would not have to get old or get sick or die—they could have lived forever. They would have had perfect children who could also have had a happy, everlasting future. And the expanding population would have had the satisfying work of eventually turning the entire earth into a paradise.—Genesis 1:26-30; 2:15."

"Obedience to God's laws would not have been burdensome for our first parents. Instead, it would have worked for their welfare and that of the entire human family. Had the first pair stayed within the limits of God's laws, all would have been well. In fact, we would now be living in a wonderful paradise of pleasure as a loving, united human family! There would not have been wickedness, suffering, and death."
"There is another factor to consider. Our original parents were not the only ones to rebel against God's rule. But who else was in existence at the time? Spirit creatures. Before God created humans, he created a higher form of life, great numbers of angels, to live in the heavenly realm. They too were created with free will and also with the need to submit to God's rule.—Job 38:7; Psalm 104:4 Revelation 5:11.

The Bible shows that rebellion first broke out in the spirit realm. A spirit creature wanted total freedom. He even wanted humans to worship him. (Matthew 4:8, 9) This spirit rebel became a factor in influencing Adam and Eve to rebel, claiming falsely that God was withholding something good from them. (Genesis 3:1-5) So he is called Devil (Slanderer) and Satan (Adversary). Later, he induced other spirit creatures to rebel. They became known as demons.—Deuteronomy 32:17; Revelation 12:9; 16:14.

Humans, by rebelling against God, gave themselves over to the influence of Satan and his demons. That is why the Bible calls Satan "the god of this system of things," who "has blinded the minds of the unbelievers." Hence, God's Word says that "the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." Jesus himself called Satan "the ruler of this world."—2 Corinthians 4:4; John 5:19; John 12:31.

Two Issues
Satan raised another issue that challenged God. In effect, he charged that God was mistaken in the way He created humans and that no one would want to do the right thing when put under pressure. In fact, he claimed that under test they would even curse God. (Job 2:1-5) In this way Satan called into question the integrity of the human creation.

Therefore, God has permitted enough time for all intelligent creatures to see how this issue as well as the issue of God's sovereignty would be resolved. (Compare Exodus 9:16.) The eventual experience of human history would reveal the truth about these two issues.

First of all, what would time reveal regarding the issue of universal sovereignty, the rightness of God's rule? Could humans rule themselves better than God? Would any system of human rule apart from God usher in a happy world free from war, crime, and injustice? Would any eliminate poverty and provide prosperity for all? Would any conquer sickness, old age, and death? God's rule was designed to do all of that.—Genesis 1:26-31.

Regarding the second issue, what would time reveal as to the worth of the human creation? Was it a mistake for God to have created humans the way he did? Would any of them do the right thing under test? Would any people show that they wanted God's rule instead of independent human rule?"
"When our first parents rejected God's rule, disaster followed. They brought suffering upon themselves and all the human family that came from them. And they had nobody to blame but themselves. God's Word says: "They have acted ruinously on their own part; they are not his children, the defect is their own."—Deuteronomy 32:5.

History has shown the correctness of God's warning to Adam and Eve that if they moved out from under God's provisions, they would deteriorate and eventually die. (Genesis 2:17; 3:19) They did move out from under God's rule, and in time they did deteriorate and die.

What happened afterward to all their offspring was as Romans 5:12 explains: "Through one man [Adam, mankind's family head] sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men." So when our first parents rebelled against God's overseership, they became defective sinners. In harmony with the laws of genetics, the resulting imperfection was all they could pass on to their offspring. That is why all of us have been born defective, prone to sickness and death."

Answer 10

Jesus was in the NT?

Get your bible straight.