If you were in Adam and Eve's position, would you be able to resist the forbidden fruit?

Question

We are supposedly born 'of sin' because of Adam and Eve's actions.. but who here would resist the apple on god's words?

Answer 1

Adam and Eve and this sin stuff was made up by the church for control. Why would God want to test his children and set them up to fail..how would that be a loving God?

Answer 2

I cannot say because I am not perfect as Adam and Eve are, however, I suspect that given that Adam and Eve were born eternal, sometime during eternity they would have decided to try the forbidden fruit. I mean, after all, satan was there tempting them to do it. We don't know how long it took to choose to disobey God but one might assume it was just a matter of time they. Of course, there's no telling, as I said, how long it took.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if I'd know what to do, and personally I think that's one of the points of the story. My analogy is this:

Imagine being 3 years old and at a summer barbecue. Daddy says "Don't eat a slice of water melon or you'll die." He goes away. Then another grown-up comes by and says "Aren't you going to have any water melon?" "No, daddy says we'll die if we eat it." "Oh little boy, you won't die! In fact it has vitamins which will help you grow up to be big and strong like daddy!"

Now in that situation, you're likely to go along with what an adult says. And this case you eat the water melon, dad comes back, get pissed off, beats the living crap out of the other adult with a pair of burger tongs, and tells everybody to go home.

See why I have a problem with "God's words"?

Answer 4

Probably not. From Adam's perspective, he was living in "God's garden." If I were a guest in someone's house, and they said help yourself to anything in the fridge, but don't eat my apple pie, I hope I'd be able to avoid eating the pie. Of course, I can't speak for Eve.

Answer 5

Because God told them not to eat of the forbiddern fruit they grew curious and the devil maipulated and tempted them into eating it, going against God's Word and twisting God's commands. I can personally say that by the will of God and being obedient to Him no devil could tempt me into eating a FRUIT. But I would probably be more so tempted into having sex, and drinking than eating a fruit. I guess it depends on how delicious and juicy it looked. Must of been some fruit then huh?

Answer 6

Hello, Becki. Thanks for your very thought-provoking question. It was Eve who first transgressed a very important proscription of their "mission." After Eve's "error in judgment," Adam knew she would eventually experience mortal death and he would lose her. Adam loved Eve so deeply and tenderly that the thought of a near-eternity on Earth without her was unacceptable to him. Therefore, Adam freely, with his head on his shoulders, participate in the "sin" of Eve knowing full well that he was throwing the planet of his jurisdiction down the toilet. He made a HUGE decision for love.

For more information about this fascinating story and this amazing couple, I highly recommend the book Adam and Eve - A Tragic Love Story. This is a serious and scholarly work and I think you'd enjoy it. Good luck to you!

http://www.amazon.com/Adam-Eve-Tragic-Love-Story/dp/0741432722/ref=sr_1_2/105-0328501-1611661?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189335923&sr=1-2

Answer 7

No! That is why God only made one pair. Can you imagined the countless pairs that He made with not a single pair choosing the Tree of Life? God Knows - with that one pair and with the body He created to contained the sin - God plan for Men to return to the Tree of Life by the One and only possibility- that is through the Blood of The Lord Jesus Christ.

Adam choose from a state of innocent while we choose from a state of a fallen nature.

Answer 8

because of the fact the serpent advised them the reality that not purely might they not die from ingesting the fruit, yet that "their eyes may be opened and that they might income the understanding of reliable and evil." In different words, the fruit of the tree they ate from might supply them understanding. God wanted them to proceed to be ignorant, that's why he advised them they might die in the event that they ate the fruit. the finished tale is a metaphor offering a blueprint for using worry to maintain human beings ignorant and basic to regulate. variety of like how the Church replaced into initially set up.

Answer 9

First of all, I haven't found what "type" of fruit it was yet, apple or no. Second, it wasn't about fruit, it was about obedience. Does God have the right to decide what is right and wrong for HIS creation or can they independently decide what they want to do as a creation? Its like a watch suddenly deciding, "hey, I think I'm going to make my hands go counter clockwise!"

Answer 10

Yeah, well, did they get the disclaimer that humanity would apparently be cursed for all generations to come? The old man sure knows how to hold a grudge. How many generations since Adam?