So God knew beforehand Eve wld eat this damn fruit?

Question

He set them up to fail?[no free will answes pls!

Answer 1

There isn't a shred of logic in an all knowing all seeing god and the story of Adam and Eve...people just don't realize it's just a story. The ancient jews who made the story up didn't believe it. They just had no other answers. So they did like almost every other culture...they created a story to explain something they didn't know.

Answer 2

So God knew beforehand Eve wld eat this damn fruit?
He set them up to fail?[no free will answes pls!



How do you expect us to answer the question then???

Answer 3

N O ,where did U get that foolishness from,not the Bible for sure.Even Satin didn't know what the result would be, he as a perfect Angle responsible over the garden where man was placed for a start had to use lies and deception,while Eve was alone without support. Think about fruit of lips forget the apples and orange stuff ,and then what Satin said about them Adam and Eve and offspring would become LIKE God KNOWING what was good and bad,in other words perhaps doing it on their own, and maybe the fruit of HIS lips as leader. THINK-- deception was there from a guardian ,who appeared as a snake .

Answer 4

It certainly looks that way doesn't it. Mind you there may be no such event took place anyway. Don't forget the whole book of Genesis was from a Jewish writer and from a Jewish perspective. I have nothing against Jewish people whatsoever and if they choose to believe that, well that's fine. I just wonder what people in the next few hundred years will make of the story when we eventually find some life form out in space. What answer will the religious people give then. I'm sure the Buddhists will be fine though because they don't preach the kind of stuff that would discount any other life forms in the universe.

Answer 5

The story is stated in a manner that illustrates a situation in terms that were designed to communicate to the society that existed at that time.
Today we think differently, so if God were to send us a new message, it would be stated in terms we would understand TODAY.
Don't take the story literally please, but the lesson is serious.
- We should follow directions or suffer the consequences. -There are other important aspects to the story, but it would take a lot of time and several pages to discuss them in detail.
Another lesson applicable today...
The Christian Bible gives us dominion over the earth and all other animals.
It doesn't say we should waste it or abuse it, but should care for it.
It WARNS that God will bring to ruin those ruining the earth.
We should take heed.

Answer 6

Ok, suppose you are the all powerful God who cannot create imperfect creatures because it is not in your nature. However, you need to test them and to try them to see if they will follow your advise, which, you being perfect, know will bring them the greatest happiness and success. The answer is to put them in a sphere where they can choose for themselves. You see that you cannot choose for them, its against your perfect nature, you can however give them the ability to choose and they have to live with the consequences. You can also provide a way for them to be redeemed from the consequences of sin and death and thereby satisfying the demands of both justice and mercy. Good luck with your project.

Answer 7

He always knew he would create Man, and he always knew they would not follow his silly rule about fruit. And yet he went ahead with the whole deal. Makes you wonder.

Father K: that is an interesting twist but the question remains, did he know the final way "the dice would fall" out of those infinite possibilities and did he go ahead anyway or did he not know and wasn't he omnipotent?

Please pick one.

Answer 8

Not "set them up" but out of all the hundreds and hundreds of things they were allowed to do, he applied one limit.
That was not unfair, nor unkind. Parents apply limits to their children every day, many of them.
The bible tells us that God cannot be tempted with sin, and God tempts no man. Each person comes to temptation with they are drawn away by their own lusts.

Answer 9

Sorry, but God is omniscient. "ALL knowing". Foreknowledge does not necessarily mean "foreordained". God knows ALL. What did happen...and what WOULD have happened in an infinite number of situations and variables.

You are using logical fallacy ("If A = C than B must be true") to try and limit the Limitless One...

Your God is too small, my friend.

Answer 10

Interesting books to read and compair are His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman.