Do you think it was fair for God to put the apple in the garden in the first place?

Question

I just want opinions on this. Why would God put the apple in the garden in the first place. It's like me knowing that my friend is going to kill someone but giving him the gun anyway and saying "I think I should still give him a choice" and not trying to stop him at all.

Don't you think it's unfair that God punishes everyone for something he put in the garden?

Also did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?

I know it isn't an apple to be exact but you know what I mean.

Answer 1

IS God "all-knowing"?
-yes- Then no, it is not fair. He placed it there knowing full well that it would be a f*ck-up
-no-, then God would NOT have foreknowledge, therefore, would have been as equal in ignorance as man.

Adam and Eve? Ask them when you get to heaven!

Answer 2

i don;t think the analogy of the gun is quite the same though. i mean God didnt necessarily KNOW they were going to betray him, but he had to give them the choice of whether they would take the temptation or not.
if you sit back and think about it, its not really that he wasnt trying to stop them at all; he had given them a beautiful, undangerous environment, with everything they could desire, but the fact that he was testing their loyalty and trust to him. As currently in the world today, the devil is an ever present force, tempting us with the supposed lucid promises, yet the consequences becoming dire in the end, and in the same way, the good and the evil had to be present in the garden.

if we had not had the ultimate choice in the garden of eden, we would not have been granted the full choice that so many of us relish today.
do you WANT to be forced into everything He wants you to do? to have to decision over ANY of your actions what so ever? to be basically living on the earth like a puppet or doll, with the master above, basically dictating what our lives would turn out to be?
no one wants that, after all, what WOULD the purpose be of creating such a world?
he gave us choice because he loves us, and wants us to be free willed. its like a good parent; theyre not going to force anything on you, but only try to steer you away from, and dissuade you from the source of evil, but ultimately, its up to you.

For your question ; do you think its unfair that God punishes everyone for something he put in the garden?
its not really him punishing us, if we DO the right thing in the first place!!
if you want to disobey, and completely disregard the rules laid forth for your own protection, by all means, go right ahead, but dont expect NOT to be punished for those you blatantly ignore.
the Lord is a just one, and he gave us a choice.
people are the ones who turn it into something ill savoury and punishable.

there is ALWAYS a choice between light and darkness.

Answer 3

The apple in the garden is merely a symbolism. In the evolution of men seen by the Prophet Daniel (7:4) from apeman, to homo-habilis, to homo-erectus, to homosapiens is a 5 million years stages of development. Thus, when the apemen were in the wide savannahs leaving the forested areas and without fruits; they by their hunger were forced to eat small animals like rabbits and rats.Then the proteinous contents of the meat through million of years caused the expansion of the brain of the apeman and became a homosapiens. The apple there is a symbolism for the meat that the apemen ate as when they were yet apemen, they had no consciousness. But the proteins from the meat the apemen ate caused the expansion of their brains and also their consciousness. Thus, the prohibited apple is a symbolism of the meat that caused them to know good from evil-being conscious of themselves. Moreover, it was not a punishment from THE LORD but all were the goodworks of THE LORD GOD. THANKS GOD; FEAR GOD; PRAISE GOD; GLORIFY GOD; HONOR GOD; LOVE GOD AND WORSHIP GOD. Pls visit my website-http://groups.yahoo.com/group/THEGOODNEWSOFTHEKINGDOM/

Answer 4

Adam and Eve had trees of every sort they could use. They were told to leave JUST ONE alone.
by themselves, they would have...EXCEPT they were influenced by Satan [ as the serpent] who LIED to Eve about the results of touching the tree. Whether it was an apple or not does not matter. It is about OBEDIENCE TO GOD.

Answer 5

God doesn't punish anyone for Adam's transgression. We are bound by God's law, whether we acknowledge that or not. Transgression of the law is sin. This is what you are responsible for: YOUR transgression against God's law. Jesus said we are to love God with all of our heart and love our neighbor as we love ourselves, all of which incompasses the Ten Commandments, which is God's law.

Answer 6

Because God wanted people to choose to love him, he wants to be loved and choosing to loving someone is greater than being forced to love someone. That being said, if he wanted us to choose him, then he had to allow us to choose everything in our lives. The fruit was placed in the garden to start the cycle of humans choosing their fate.

Answer 7

To see if the obedience of man would fail, even in a perfect environment with nothing to worry about just one simple act of obedience.

Answer 8

Considering it's just myth they needed the tree to make the story. The story represents human freedom and also passing the buck and other things that are in our nature

Answer 9

these are fictional things, there was no apple nor adam or eve...all man made stories