If you believe God is all knowing, question for you....?

Question

If God is all knowing and you believe in adam and eve.. then isn't what he did entrapment?
(*spell it out for you people who don't know what entrapment is... God knew adam would take that apple, why tell him not to take the apple?
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Religious nuts can apply to answer this question as well :)
I accept all to answer my question. Maybe I'll learn something new. Have not learned anything new or thought of any new concept in a while :(
Thanks for all responses !! Itadakimasu! heh
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Seem many of you are using the "Free will" excuse...
If u put a little kid a room with a red firetruck and tell him not to play with it. You know damn well that he will. Even if he has a million other toys. he will get to that toy eventually. It is an elaborate trap.
I guess the "ALL KNOWING" part doesn't include "free will" for you.
so god doesn't know the outcome based on free will and is not all knowing by those peoples responses.

Answer 1

It's a known fact that God hated Adam and was "interested" in Eve. What made it more complicated was when God's longtime nemesis, Lucifer tried to get in on the action with Eve as well. The whole situation got ugly, but yes, it was definitely entrapment.

Answer 2

There are very different opinions amongst Christians about what you are asking. You're right in a way about entrapment, if God already knows you're going to do everything you're going to do, why let you do it? Doesn't make much sense huh? God can't control free choice, he gave that to us from day one. God knows our hearts pretty well and can probably take a good guess at what we'll do, but I doubt he knows the exact outcome. However, as a whole he knows an awful lot about what's going to happen. He knows when he will end the world, he probably knows a lot about our lives here on earth that we can't even begin to understand. But we always have free choice to screw it all up. That's part of the plan. Some Christians believe we are all pre-destined but that doesn't make much sense to followers of a loving God. Why would God pre-destine some people to be child molesters or serial killers, some to go to heaven, some to go to hell. I seriously doubt he would as a God who talks so much about love. And if we are going to say God controls everything I would say that would be included.

No man can answer for God. When in doubt of what anyone tells you, refer to a Bible. We are all responsible for our own souls. Visit a Church of Christ and ask a lot of questions, someone there will be glad to answer them for you. Spiritual growth is a long journey, one in which we are constantly learning more and asking more questions. Good Luck in yours.

Answer 3

Adam and Eve were not entrapped. God had already made the plan of redemption for them because He knew that they would disobey Him (play with the red firetruck). He planted the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden because He wanted Adam and Eve to have the free will to make their own decision. God didn't want robots, He wanted children to love and to love Him back.

If Adam and Eve had chosen to obey God, there would be no need for Jesus to have come and died for our sin so that we can have them take away.

The tree is not a problem for those who accept Jesus. Jesus' death was in our place for our sin. Not His own sin, because He is sinless.

His death covers those before his birth, those during His life and those after His death and resurrection.

Before Jesus came, people were judged by what they did (religion). After Jesus came, we have God's grace after we believe repent (turn away from sin) and accept His Son.

I am not a religious nut. I am God's child.

Answer 4

That was not entrapment, sorry. God did not set out to do this to Adam & Eve; did not set out to have them fail. That's pretty heartless don't you think? The fact is that Adam & Eve were given free will and chose to use it to disobey God. It was an act of love that they were created with the ability to make the choice themselves. Did God know they WOULD? No. Did God know they COULD. Yes. The fact that God is all knowing does not mean that God CHOOSES to know all. It's like having a TV set. You have the information on all those channels. Do you choose to watch them all at one time?
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To your added point: Yes God is all knowing. There is a difference between having the ability to know all, which God does, and choosing to.

Answer 5

Well I'm not going to think about this, but I will solve the problem much like a hacker helps Microsoft create new anti-virus programs.

God gave Adam free will, so that he had the knowledge that the apple was wrong, and did it anyways.

Didn't Satan influence Adam's free will? Yes, so therefore The Devil can tempt man, God can not, and since God is more powerful than Satan, tempting man's free will is less powerful than not tempting man's free will. So, as a believer in God, we should not tempt each other's free will and allow them to have it that way.

That means, that whenever you force someone to do anything (like work) you are infringing upon their free will, acting like Satan, and basically be weak and impotent.

Answer 6

I believe the Bible is a collection of stories to be interpreted by each individual in order to find ones own path to God. The story of Adam and Eve is the age old story of temptation and the consequences of that temptation. We have the ability to decide and choose, in return we must face the consequences of that decision. Either choice can have benefits as hopefully we learn from our mistakes. Rather than looking at the Bible literally try reading into it a bit more and seeing how the lesson or idea being told relates to you personally.

Answer 7

The relation between Adam and God is that of a worshiper to his Creator, and to "worship" someone is to "obey his orders". Since man is given the free will, then there must be a test, in which man is subjected to temptation, and has to choose whether to obey God's orders even though it's hard, or to take the easy way, and follow his own desires.
There had to be a test.
God knew that Adam will eat from the forbidden tree before He created him.
And before God created man, he has decided to make him live on Earth, it wasn't meant for mankind to stay in heaven from the beginning of their creation.

Answer 8

God gave Adam and Eve the ability to resist sin, so no--its not entrapment.

Knowing in advance that someone is going to rob the bank doesn't give the law a right to arrest them in advance. You've got to commit a crime to be arrested. And its not entrapment, either. Entrapment is when you put the suggestion into someone's head and entice them.

Answer 9

Because God gave us free will. Free will isn't much good without chances to use it. Adam had a choice to either obey God or not. He chose to disobey, like all humans will. Human nature is to take the Forbidden Fruit. God knew this, but if Adam hadn't had a chance to obey God, he would be no better than animals.

Answer 10

God allowed Adam to make his own choice. He didn't want to force Adam to do something, that would make Adam (and therefore all humanity) a drooling, mindless, subservient race incapable of love or anything. God probably knew what was coming, but he wanted people to choose to serve him. It's just like any relationship. Say there's this guy named Gary, and he's dating this girl named Haley. He thinks she might be interested in some other guy named Arthur, but does he want to force her to love him? No, Gary wants Haley to WANT to love him, therefore, let her make her own decision and hope that she comes back to him.

Cast of Characters in my little fable:
Gary = God
Haley = Humanity
Arthur = the Apple, symbolic for selfish desires of Haley (Humanity)

...And by the way, if you look at the 10 Commandments, all of them are consistent with this theme, since each one is commanding humans not to act in a certain selfish way (stealing, lying, committing adultery, obsessing over your neighbor's goods (coveting), etc.)