What a ridiculous book the Bible is, and how ridiculous are people when they try to justify it!!!
2007-07-22 02:54:56 · 9 answers · asked by americanhero_aa 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Adam and Eve were innocents, they had everything anyone could wish for. Eve being tempted by Satan(the serpent) and believing his lies brought sin to the world when she ate the forbidden fruit and then gave it to Adam to eat. When they ate the lies of Satan it took away their innocence and they were not only ashamed of their nakedness but that they had disobeyed God.
2007-07-22 03:01:11 · answer #1 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I don't mean to be cruel here, but you seem to be stuck on the nudity of Adam and Eve. It wasn't the eating of the fruit that made them ashamed. Their sin was disobedience. Now, having eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that was in the middle of the Garden of Eden, AFTER being told that they could not, they had the knowledge they sure didn't expect.
2007-07-22 04:22:16 · answer #2 · answered by Valerie W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What fruit? There's no mention of that supposed apple in the bible. And they weren't the only 2 people. Will you people PLEEEASE know WTH you're talking about before you knock it?
2007-07-22 03:07:29 · answer #3 · answered by lyobov 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its a symbolic story to help explain some events that occurred
there was a lot of people on the earth at that time
it wasn't just fruit they ate
shame comes with what ever knowledge they received when they partook of something they were warned about
2007-07-22 03:04:22 · answer #4 · answered by zee zee 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Philosophically speaking, I believe it to be an allegory of the loss of innocence. A revelation that they had gone against what God had told them not to do. And therefore they saw their own weaknesses..or nudity...or stupidity...or vulnerability or all of these...
But...that it just my interpretation. Many see this as an actual event.
2007-07-22 03:01:21 · answer #5 · answered by Goddess of Laundry 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"Adam" is a Hebrew word for "mankind". "Adam" was not a single individual - "Adam" was "mankind". Therefore, by translating into English, all kinds of original meanings are lost. This fact is also lost to way too many people who do not understand this, or don't want to.
2007-07-22 03:00:01 · answer #6 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
We have a lot of questions about nudity this morning.
1Corinthians 1:18
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1Cr/1Cr001.html#18
2007-07-22 03:05:43 · answer #7 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a metaphor. Go back to school.
2007-07-22 02:58:44 · answer #8 · answered by Pook 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
It wouldn't. It's a myth.
2007-07-22 02:58:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋