If you believe the whole Adam and Eve thing, then why did God mess up so badly with them? Do you think he had an off day? Do you think there are worlds where he made an Adam and Eve who were obedient and smart and incorruptible, rather than disobedient and stupid and weak-willed? That would have saved an awful lot of unpleasantness, wouldn't it?
2007-08-13 11:10:46 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He meant to.
It's true, many many Christians told me that God INTENDED for Adam & Eve to "fall".
2007-08-13 11:12:30 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Oy oy oy. These answers. Some of them. Oy vey. *Shakes head in disgust and wonderment*
The excuses given to God for not creating a happy world are so extreme and ludicrous I feel my intestines shrink. "Robotic automatons"? Er, no. If the dude is omniscient, if he's omnipotent, if he's ubiquitous, then why the hell would he want to make the rest of us capable of genocide and hatred? We could be ourselves in a perfectly happy world. There's nothing robotic about it. The Adam & Eve story is ignorant enough in that it discounts all human life before it (or did that disappear in the flood, can't remember). They were the "first" man and woman. Mmm hmm. And the Earth is only 4,000 years old. Faith. Ha. Blind ignorance is what I call it.
Even Adam & Eve didn't need to be obedient. If God created them with hearts and souls and a sense of beauty and happiness, if he stayed out of their sex lives after giving them the organs to replicate and the pheremones to begin, if he let them roam free in the universe without any thought of danger or fear or sadness in their little hearts, perhaps we would have a world of peace today. That is, if God ever existed, which of course he didn't. The universe is vast. Why not create others to enjoy it with you if you have the power - why corrupt your creations? We could be starjumpers, moondancers, I could be watching a meteor shower in another galaxy while you stand at the end of the earth and howl at the sky. There is SOOO much to do in the universe! I'm sure it's an endless amount of fun. But no. Big made-up God came to stomp on the sinners he created, only he was so sick and evil that he killed all of their babies instead. Wonderful. Something I want to worship for sure. Uh huh.
He did it because mankind's commitment to storytelling just doesn't feel like enough when it's all happy. He did it because people hate that which they don't know and so created God to eradicate it.
2007-08-13 18:05:33 · answer #2 · answered by Gunning4Jesus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The story has actually bothered me a long time. What is wrong about seeking knowledge? I don't need the magic tree and talking snake to realize that Adam and Eve were a myth designed to reinforce ancient prejudices.
Not to mention the anti-female tone. So women were plucked from the sleeping guy's rib for the sole purpose of being a "companion?" And the whole giving Eve labor pains for disobeying sounds a lot like Jack the Ripper mutilating female prostitutes. It reeks of misogyny all the way.
2007-08-13 11:22:04 · answer #3 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Adam and Eve story is just a creation myth. There is no god to mess things up. There were ignorant savages and still are, who make up these stories to control people economically and politically. If you follow the history of the bible, it becomes clear that the stories change. It is the story that makes problems.
People will be people. When we can see our behavior with acceptance and gratitude we seem pretty funny. When we take all that stuff so seriously we lose track of the fact that it is just a bunch of stories. Stories are made up by people. They are in constant change just as the societies that produce the stories change. Everything is temporary.
Take it lightly. It is just play.
2007-08-13 16:44:37 · answer #4 · answered by bondioli22 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God made Adam & Eve for practice. They were sort of like prototypes. Consider that this universe was made in 6 days. God did not take the time to do a proper job because it was just an experiment.
After Adam & Eve turned out to be such a disappointment God turned them out of the garden to let them die. Unfortunately they survived and multiplied and God made Noah's flood to remove the infestation. That didn't work either. Perhaps one of these days God will do a proper job of exterminating the humans for good and all.
2007-08-13 11:27:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve are the key to knowing yourself and knowing exactly what your own pure innate nature is. You may attempt to lie to yourself and believe your own lie but that will not solve the problem my friend.
In my view My God, the God of the Bible had a super wonderful day and all was perfect according to His plan. You see "I or we" are not God and "I and we" do not have the capability to think as God thinks thus we many times have a hard time to grasp the real truth.
Ah, but if you do seek you can fine it. So seek and seek until it is revealed to you my friend. That is to say itis revealed to you in a constantly consistent manner in which you can see the clear fact that you are not God and that you do have a beginning.
Just some free food for thought from a pure "NO".
2007-08-13 17:20:15 · answer #6 · answered by cjkeysjr 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve where part of God's materful plan. In order to have children born to them, and for us to live in a world where we have to learn by faith required that Adam and Eve partake of the fruit. God, knowing all things, anticpated that Adam and Eve would do this. It actaully allowed God's plan for all of us to be born to come into effect.
Nothing was "messed up" but rather all part of the plan.
2007-08-13 11:17:41 · answer #7 · answered by Kerry 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I can not believe you asked such a question. Adam and Eve made a mess themselves by not listening to GOD but the serperant. GOD gave Adam and Eve free will to do what they thouht was right. Why does everybody blame everythin on GOD?
2007-08-13 11:17:51 · answer #8 · answered by Francine M 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
That pesky free will, lol. I'm sure that if God really wanted incorruptible automatons, he would have made humans that way. Of course, according to the creation story he made animals first, so he already had plenty of creatures that were "obedient, smart, and incorruptible."
2007-08-13 11:16:27 · answer #9 · answered by Cathy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Adam & Eve? What about the rest of his followers?
2007-08-13 12:50:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He didn't mess up with Adam and Eve. They were given their free will. They used it. God knew what they were going to do...and made allowances for it.
2007-08-13 11:19:49 · answer #11 · answered by LDS~Tenshi~ 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋