Obviously Eve did not know that her eating a piece of fruit was going to cause bad things to happen and evil to exist for the rest of future of the world. Do you think, had she been made fully aware of such consequences, she still would have done it?
2007-08-25 04:41:51 · 37 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ooops.. I see an error up there. Should read "for the rest of the future"
2007-08-25 04:42:15 · update #1
I've always had trouble with taking that story literally, as with anything in the Bible. I don't view it as a book of literal history or fact. I think that the real moral of the "Adam and Eve" story is that self-awareness and self-knowledge come with a price, and that price is pain and suffering.
2007-08-26 14:19:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God told her "Dont eat of the fruit". Whether she knew the consequences or not is irrelevant. All she had to do was OBEY but she chose not too!! However she DID know and still chose the wrong course ( Gen 3 :2, 3). As I have always told my kids "obedience protects you". If only eve was obedient. After all she had all of eden except that one tree. Surely that was not to much to ask of her. However eve was DECEIVED by the serpent, she was fooled (Gen 3 : 13) The greater fault lay with adam. As her head, her husband he should have corrected his wife and taken responsiblity. Perhaps forgiveness could have been given but instead he shirked his duty and so suffered the consequences. (Gen 3: 11, 12 , 17). Read all of genesis chapters 2 and 3 and that should give you a greater understanding.
2007-08-25 05:02:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If she was told the full truth of everything and knew what would happen to everyone then there is the possibility that she might have not eaten the Apple.
We do not know exactly what would have happened if Eve was told of everything that would have happened to everyone. We have to remember that at the one bite of the Apple ALL sins were introduced into the world and all of us were then separated from God.
So, if you have to honestly answer this question then you have to look into yourself and wonder if you could do the same thing - could you resist temptation? Could you make a decision to either be with God forever or to go through all the issues of the world?
2007-08-25 05:21:56 · answer #3 · answered by waeyeaw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, according to the story, Eve WAS told the actual consequences of eating the fruit: She would not die and she would understand the difference between good and evil.
It would have been useless to threaten her with bad things happening to her descendants -- she and Adam didn't have sex before they ate the fruit, therefore there were no descendants and no possibility of any. And according to the story, god did not use that threat. (Read Genesis again if you don't believe me on this point.)
2007-08-25 05:15:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was told the truth, she didn't believe it!
When I tell my son that running out into the street can kill him, I don't need to give him chapter and verse about all the possible consequences (bleeding, broken bones, fractured skull, internal injuries)...death is by far the greatest consequence and the one that I hope and pray is sufficient to get him to accept and obey my instructions!
If see couldn't accept the truth about the most serious consequence (you will die), what makes you think she would have accepted it if God had told her all of the consequences?
2007-08-25 05:03:04 · answer #5 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was aware of the consequences. God also was knowing that. We r not here coz of that sin of Adam and Eve. We r God's love and handmade. We were meant by our creation to praise Him.
Good luck!
2007-08-25 04:59:52 · answer #6 · answered by cleopatra 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, she did not cause evil and bad things for the rest of the history of the world.
anyone who thinks that because Satan, Adam and Eve had rebelled against God, and have permanently ruined the original purpose for the earth as spelled out by God, has found them self in the position of worshiping a less than Almighty God.
Has God’s original purpose for the earth changed?
Gen. 1:27, 28: “God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. Further, God blessed them and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.’” (Thus God indicated his purpose to have the earth filled with the offspring of Adam and Eve as caretakers of a global paradise. After God had magnificently designed this earth for human habitation, making it unique among all the planets that man has examined with his telescopes and spaceships, did the Creator simply abandon his purpose, leaving it forever unfulfilled because of Adam’s sin?)
Isa. 45:18: “This is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the true God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: ‘I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.’” (See also Isaiah 55:10, 11.)
Many Christians have neglected to acknowledge this. They have jumped to the conclusion that ALL Christians will go to heaven, but that is clearly not the case. Only those who have the covenant relationship with Jesus, to co-rule with him in heaven will go there. What they will be ruling over, is those believers who, according to God's will be fulfilling God's unstoppable plan to have the earth he created, full of people which was the reason for his creating of it (the earth).
If Adam and Eve had not sinned, then they of course, would still be alive, and we could go over to their house and have lunch. (The command regarding the eating of the fruit the tree in the center of the garden, was the only way, if broken that they would have died.)
2007-08-25 04:47:33 · answer #7 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The consequence? Leave the garden of eden, condemn humanity with sin? But gain the knowledge of the difference between right and wrong?
Hell, even I would have eaten it.
2007-08-25 04:48:13 · answer #8 · answered by Menon R 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
She was told the true consequences, but ignorned them after being tempted by the serpent. This is similiar to people today who have seen the true consequences of the invasion of Iraq, yet still support the serpent which sent them there.
2007-08-25 04:47:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the fall of adam and eve was planed and is a good thing with out the fall of the two they could not of have children. The fall was a great thing that we all my know good from evil
2007-08-25 04:48:24 · answer #10 · answered by Kelly RIch 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋