Not very satisfied with the answers of the previous question....?

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I want to clearify that. Because everything is ilogical.

Answer 1

Basically, a better way of putting it is that they had not experienced the difference. They knew it was bad to eat the fruit, because God had said it was. But because they had not experienced "bad," they didn't really have a full understanding of it. Similarly, when you were growing up, your mom probably told you not to touch the stove while it was hot. You might have obeyed her, knowing that she would not tell you not to touch the stove without a good reason. But your little brother might have wanted to find out for himself, and wound up with a burnt finger. Adam and Eve were like the little brother. Yes, the snake exercised his powers of persuasion, but if you believe in free will, you also believe that everyone in the end is responsible for his or her own choices. Maybe in high school your friends thought drugs were cool, and maybe they tried to get you to smoke pot or something. But the decision of whether to do it or not was totally up to you, and if you got caught with drugs, in the end it was your fault for using them.

The snake was allowed there because Eden was not heaven. Eden was the ordinary world when it was in a state of perfect order. But because he had free will, man still had to choose God in order to enter paradise. He hadn't done that yet because he hadn't had a choice. If you have only one option, you can't choose. Up to that point, his only option had been perfection. When evil first entered the world, for the first time he could choose whether he wanted perfection or not. He ("he" being mankind) chose not. Really, for free will to work, there has to be a choice between good and evil, so it wasn't until evil entered the world that heaven was even a possibility for us. Because the first choice ever made was against God, we lost perfection, but God so loved the world that he sent his Son to redeem us and make heaven available. Now, if Adam and Eve had chosen to ignore the snake and leave the fruit alone, would we all have free passes to heaven due to the first-ever choice being against evil? There is no way to know. But we have the world we live in, and it's up to us to do our best with it.

Answer 2

Because it is a made up story to justify why the world is so unfriendly towards us, why women come of so much worse in the reproduction area and why the women need to do what the men say.

If God is all knowing why bother with the entire Eden fiasco. He must have known what would happen before he even got to the 'let there be light' part. Either:

he is not all knowing, and so not as the bible describes him, and so the bible is wrong.

Or

He just set up Adam and Eve for some reason, and is not all loving, and so not as the bible describes him, and so the bible is wrong.

Either way the bible is wrong in at least one aspect of God.

Answer 3

Kris,
Slow down my friend. Why are you chasing the poisonous snake that bit you? You will only die chasing him, why not take the anti-venom (Christ) in front of you and Live!? There are gobs of questions you could ask about Eden, for instance, how is it that Eve would even hold a conversation with a snake or any animal? Evidently both she and Adam could communicate with the animals with no problem before the curse. It probably helped that all the animals where vegetarians. But it goes to show that life at that time was rather amazing, we have not seen anything like that in our time even with our flaunted technology. Also Adam and Eve were blessed by frequent visits from God (Christ) in PERSON and God fellow shipped with them. That's why Adam hid when he heard God's familiar walk.

Answer 4

It's only illogical if, like the Christians, you view the events in the garden as a bad thing. Some of us take the opposite view--that the serpent was not an avatar of temptation but of wisdom, and the fruit of the tree was the ability to make moral judgments, and to act on those.
Looked at in that light, then God meant for the serpent to be there, to give the gift of free will and the wisdom to use it to his favored creations.

Answer 5

The Bible was written by humans. It is not some holy book from God. It is a brainwashing tool with many flaws if you take the time to look, as you just did. So Congratulations to you if you have more brainpower than the overwhelming majority who believe the Bible to be something of importance or real spiritual meaning. It is a fool's story book.

Answer 6

I'm using Copy/Paste to get your entire sequence of questions in here. After each of your questions, I'm giving my response. I hope it's sufficient.
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Another God question......Why God didn't let Adam and Eve to know the difference between good and evil? - They were to learn the same way that people learn things like math and english - God would teach them over time. But they were impatient, and they didn't trust God.

And why did He sent them away from Eden when they ate the fruit? It was not their fault. The snake fooled them.They were like children.Easy to fool around. - There was also the tree of life, and if they had eaten of the tree of life after having eaten of the forbidden fruit, God would not have been able to one day redeem them. They would have been locked in their condition for all eternity with no chance of redemption.

And WHY does the snake...a.k.a the devil was in Eden? Wasn't he not allowed there? - This one I can't explain. I don't know how satan managed to use a serpent. I only know that it must have cooperated with satan, otherwise God would not have cursed the serpent.

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17 minutes ago
yeap....you can say that He let them eat the fruit.Because He sees everything.And He could have stopped them if He wanted to. - Yeah - God COULD have stopped them. He could have FORCED them to obey. But God didn't want any more rocks. He wanted people - people who would freely choose to do what was right.

14 minutes ago
ok....let's say that they had free will and that was an act of disobedience. But why they didn't have to know the difference between good and evil? - See my answer at the beginning of this page.

9 minutes ago
ok.....let's assume that it's like you say.
Adam and Eve knew the difference between good and evil before the fruit incidence. - Actually, they didn't know the difference between good and evil. That's what the forbidden fruit gave them. God was looking for simple trust - "Do you trust me enough to obey me? Or will you trust a stranger over me?" - kinda like that.

But why is the devil in Eden?How can God let him stay there? Again, somehow the serpent made an agreement with satan which allowed satan access. Again, I don't know how this took place.

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As you can see, I've tried to give reasonable answers to each point of your previous question. If it still doesn't make sense, then you'll just have to wait till you die. Hopefully, you can ask God directly if you put your trust in Jesus and go to heaven. If not, well, I'm not sure HOW you'll find out.

Answer 7

I'll write here what I wrote there. None of that is in the story because the creation story was made-up to explain why things were the way they were to a primitive people. It didn't make any sense to them that they had to work so hard for what they had or why such a wonderful thing as childbirth was so painful if God loved them as they believe he did. So, the storyteller came up with the creation story to explain it.

Answer 8

You must look at all of gensis to get the whole story and understand. But basically we are all adam and eve we are all cain and abel it shows the damage we do to ourselves and God's creations and to each other. Shows what happens when you turn your back on God and/or play God.
You realize of course the bible and quran are religous texts and not science books or literal history.? The bible is full of parables so all can relate to the story and lesson being taught.

Answer 9

Yes...they had free will. It was the first test of mankind, to obey God or to so easily fall for deciept. Just being all like "Oh, but God, I was fooled" still isn't a satisfactory answer. He cast them out because Eden was the ultimate life. There strife and suffering did not exist. Adam and Eve incurred the wrath of God and were punished by having to live a life of toil and hardship.

Answer 10

Adam was not tricked by the Serpent. Eve was deceived. Adam made a deliberate decision to eat the fruit.
Why would a snake not be in a beautiful garden? It was a free world then the same as it is now. God allowed Adam to be tested because he wanted to give him free will.