In the garden...Why did the LORD curse the woman and the snake in their bodies but chose to curse...?

Question

...the ground instead of Adam?

Answer 1

As at the Judgment seat why will some get different rewards or punishment. Because God is a Just and Loving God who does what is right and as we sew so shall we reap. All Blessings Honor and Glory to the One true God.

Answer 2

Let's look beyond the distortions. Eve had never had children before. We don't know how painful being perfect and having children would be. We do know they never experienced real pain before--as in no disease, perfect healing bodies, no old ageism.

Outside Eden and without perfection, they would experience pain, a lot. They both died. Is not that enough of a curse with their children under a death sentence as well?

Answer 3

The devil was cursed in the body he chose to occupy. The woman's childbirth was made painful and sorrowful, "her desire shall be to her husband and HE shall rule over her" (NOT God's original plan and Jesus came to set that relationship straight again as an equal partnership.., and did) and Adam was given dominion and authority over EVERY THING IN THE EARTH (except other men) from the time he was made and God even allowed him to name every animal; but because what God had given him authority over, he carelessly and rebelliously gave over to the devil, he HAD TO THEN LOSE IT'S EFFECTIVENESS toward him!! Adam brought about his own curse really. But what they did as the original's, they set the pattern and harvest for all the rest of mankind thereafter. Everything God did, He did with a seed or root or origin and set forthe the forever principle of "seedtime and harvest".
Eve's being submitted under her husband was because she gave to her husband after she partook of what was forbidden and didn't consult with him (being deceived) before she partook of it. The devil was after the Lordship over their "seed" forever and he got it by their rebellion and by their bowing to his temptation. That is why mankind then needed a Savior; they had yielded to the wrong VOICE/WORDS, making him their authority.
The woman wasn't "cursed" in her body, but lost her blessing of bringing seed to the Lord into the earth.

Answer 4

It is a "Curse" that Adam should be "Genetically Implanted" with Sin that we call the "Old Sin Nature / Original Sin" which is "Transmitted" through All Males at the time of Birth. John

Answer 5

adam did suffer consaquences
he was kicked out of the garden and the ground was cursed of him. life became harder
from that point for him

Answer 6

Adam's curse was the toil and difficulty related to working for his daily bread. The inference is that, prior to the curse, working in the garden was a sweat-free delight!

Answer 7

Lord did not curse anything, snakes are so cute and women love to give babies in pain.

Answer 8

I would say because the "snake" who was Satan was the one who tempted Eve and Eve because she was the one who ate of the fruit first...that's just my opinion.

Answer 9

it's the mentality of the white male supremacy that exists in the christian religion today.... the bible is generally written in a manner to support only this perspective.

Answer 10

To answer your question you must first truly understand the Fall of Adam & Eve. Once you truly understand the Fall then your question will hav its answer. Please read the following:


Few persons in all eternity have been more directly involved in the plan of salvation—the creation, the fall, and the ultimate redemption of the children of God—than the man Adam. His ministry among the sons and daughters of earth stretches from the distant past of premortality to the distant future of resurrection, judgment, and beyond.

As Michael, the archangel, Adam led the forces of God against the armies of Lucifer in the War in Heaven. Under the direction of Elohim and Jehovah, he assisted in the creation of the earth. After taking physical bodies, Adam and Eve brought mortality into being through partaking of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. With the fall of our first parents came blood and posterity and probation and death, as well as the need for redemption through a Savior, a “last Adam.” (1 Cor. 15:45.) To Adam the gospel was first preached, and upon him the priesthood was first bestowed. From Adam and Eve the message of the gospel of salvation went forth to all the world. Following his death, which occurred almost a millennium after he entered mortality, Adam’s watch-care over his posterity continued. Revelations have come and angels have ministered under his direction. Priesthood has been conferred and keys delivered at his behest.

Before the World Was
Adam’s role in the eternal plan of God began in our premortal first estate. There he was known as Michael, literally one “who is like God.” Indeed, “by his diligence and obedience there, as one of the spirit sons of God, he attained a stature and power second only to that of Christ, the Firstborn. None of all our Father’s children equalled him in intelligence and might, save Jesus only.” 1 He was “called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God” (Alma 13:3) to perform his labors on earth. Michael stood with Jehovah in defense of the plan of the Father, the plan of salvation, this in opposition to the amendatory offering of Lucifer, a “son of the morning.” (2 Ne. 24:12; D&C 76:25–27.) “The contention in heaven was,” Joseph Smith explained, that “Jesus said there would be certain souls that would not be saved; and the devil said he could save them all, and laid his plans before the grand council, who gave their vote in favor of Jesus Christ. So the devil rose up in rebellion against God, and was cast down, with all who put up their heads for him.” 2 Or, as the Revelator saw in vision: “There was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought against Michael;

“And the dragon prevailed not against Michael. … Neither was there place found in heaven for the great dragon, who was cast out; that old serpent called the devil, and also called Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth; and his angels were cast out with him.” (JST, Rev. 12:6–8.)

In the morn of creation, Adam, Eve, and all forms of life existed in a paradisiacal condition. All things were physical. They were spiritual in the sense that they were not mortal, not subject to death. (See 1 Cor. 15:44; Alma 11:45; D&C 88:27.) 5 In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve walked and talked with God. Adam was made “lord or governor of all things on earth, and at the same time [enjoyed] communion … with his Maker, without a vail to separate between.” 6 Our first parents would have remained in this state indefinitely had not circumstances changed. (See 2 Ne. 2:22; Moses 4:9.) Those circumstances did change as a result of Adam and Eve’s partaking of the forbidden fruit.

The Latter-day Saint view of the scenes in Eden is remarkably optimistic when compared to traditional Christian views. We believe that Adam and Eve went into the Garden of Eden to fall, that their actions helped “open the way of the world,” 7 and that the Fall was as much a part of the foreordained plan of the Father as was the very Atonement. “Adam did only what he had to do,” President Joseph Fielding Smith said. “He partook of that fruit for one good reason, and that was to open the door to bring you and me and everyone else into this world, for Adam and Eve could have remained in the Garden of Eden; they could have been there to this day, if Eve hadn’t done something.” 8

Because the Fall (like the Creation and the Atonement) is one of the three pillars of eternity, and because mortality, death, human experience, sin, and thus the need for redemption grow out of the Fall, we look upon what Adam and Eve did with great appreciation rather than with disdain. “The fall had a twofold direction—downward, yet forward. It brought man into the world and set his feet upon progression’s highway.” 9 As Enoch declared, “Because that Adam fell, we are.” (Moses 6:48; compare 2 Ne. 2:25.)