I'm referring to Adam and Eve here.
They were kicked out the Garden of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit and forced to live on Earth where there was pain and suffering. Fair enough, they broke the rules.
But why are we still all being punished, and forced to live on Earth, when it was a sin that our ancestors committed thousands of years ago?
I understand that some people are bad during their lifetime and so maybe deserve to be banished from Eden even to this day, but what about the genuinely good people in life?
As far as I'm aware, people like the Pope and many others live good, honest lives. So why are they forced to stay on Earth and suffer? Why aren't they born straight into the Garden of Eden if they are good people?
2007-08-10 02:19:17 · 10 answers · asked by Adam L 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because a story was needed to help people understand how they got here and why life sucks sometimes. I still say it's not fair that women still have to go through labor while many men don't have to toil the soil anymore!
2007-08-10 02:23:22 · answer #1 · answered by Twin momma as of 11/11 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The sin that we commit today is the same as Adam and Eve committed. We essentially approve of their sin.
Living a good, honest life without God is actually setting ourselves up to be our own god. It is recognizing that love and compassion and mercy and justice is the right direction to go but it simultaneously rejects the Giver of that direction. We say, in essence, thanks for the directions, now get lost. The sin is in rejecting God and the punishment that naturally follows is the loss of the supernatural communion/fellowship that God offers. Eden is just a place where the created walk with our Creator in the cool of the day (Genesis 3:8)
2007-08-10 02:24:48 · answer #2 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is all a bit convoluted.
Eden was on this earth.
And whether good or bad, we are still the children of Adam and Eve who made a choice that affected their offspring, even as our choices can affect our offspring.
So don't blame God for the actions of another.
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2007-08-10 02:26:06 · answer #3 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even a 5 year old child knows if someone does something wrong, it is morally proper to punish the wrong-doers only, not every human who will ever be born thereafter.
This is one clue that lets us know the bible was written by simple-minded bronze age goat herders, who lacked any sense of morality whatsoever.
2007-08-10 02:58:39 · answer #4 · answered by Kitty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God's ways are much higher than ours.We don't even know how many grains of sand there are on earth and we live here.But God knows down to the last grain of sand the exact number.
2007-08-10 02:34:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you have really thought about this, God asks us to be inquisitive and not have "blind faith"
The garden of Eden was on earth.
Who decides who is good or bad?
Judge lest ye be judged.
2007-08-10 02:25:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sin is what is punishing us. Not God. We choose to sin and God allows the consequences to happen. God created the perfect world, sin destroyed it.
2007-08-10 02:24:57 · answer #7 · answered by HonestJoe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were the originals.. pure blood humans... They even sinned, how much more are we...
2007-08-10 03:51:38 · answer #8 · answered by Jay R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we can only learn through suffering!
2007-08-10 02:23:19 · answer #9 · answered by Global gipsey. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God is a liberal?
2007-08-10 02:22:47 · answer #10 · answered by Mystine G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋