Adam was created perfect, a 1.0000 but when he sinned he became a .9999999999 imperfect but close, thats why the preflood generation lived so long, but when you multiply a fraction times a fraction you get a smaller fraction. Incest wasn't known at that time, in fact Abraham was married to his sister, but when God gave the law to Moses, then it became wrong, & through ths we now view it as repugnant.
2007-09-29 05:22:52 · 21 answers · asked by zorrro857 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If our first parents, Adam and Eve, had not pursued a course of sin, they would have had a close relationship with Jehovah God eternally on a paradise earth. They started life in Paradise, for the Scriptures tell us: “Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.” (Genesis 2:8) It was in that paradisaic garden that Eve was brought into existence. If Adam and Eve had not sinned, they and their perfect offspring could have worked together happily until the entire earth became a paradise. (Genesis 2:21; 3:23, 24) The earthly Paradise would have been mankind’s home eternally.
And yes Adam would still be alive today
2007-09-29 05:41:55 · answer #1 · answered by lynn 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Actually I think you are right on, if not .99999999999 close. No one knows ow long they were in the garden before the fall and the were prefect but also naive in the fact the didn't know good and bad. They were bound to fall yes, but how long did it take? Even after the fall Adam was a very good man and a follower of God.
Many cultures for a very long time believed in what we now call incest. Most people today have a very hard time judging the past as wrong compared to modern values, although it was the culture. I don't hear many people complain about the unhealthy and gross activities of ancient Greece and Rome. So how can people complain that practices in the Bible are wrong and "gross" when their culture was way different then from today? We have no right or reason to judge other cultures no matter how different.
2007-09-29 05:31:17 · answer #2 · answered by Coool 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you think about it, he is alive today - just not on Earth. Death came when Adam sinned, as well as the labors of child-bearing. No one can really answer if Adam will still be on Earth if he didn't sin. Later in Genesis, God says it's not good for man to live so long. Would he have said it's not good for man to stay on Earth so long if Adam didn't sin? no one can say.
As far as incest goes, it has more to do with the science of the individual's genetic code. A modern day brother and sister share similar genes from their parents. If they were to have a child, there's a good chances that child will have defects. Such was not the case back in early old testament due to a limited number of people and genetic structures.
In a bigger picture, this was all part of God's design. Of course God didn't mean for sin to enter the world, but since he already knows everything, he had a design in place from the start. This is one of the things that, the human, with limitations of the mind, can't fully comprehend - remember that!
Things aren't wrong just to be wrong. There is always a reason. There's a reason for everything. Again - design.
2007-09-29 05:45:57 · answer #3 · answered by Mero 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes, and we would have a vastly different concept of what human is.
We can know two things under that circumstance. 1. It takes only one parent to have a perfect child. 2. God could have created another Eve from Adam's genetic material. In either case, humans would have been better off.
We equate the lowest form of humanity shown today as what we are. Not what we could be. Our capacity for good far exceeds our output. God's original purpose is to change that.
2007-09-29 12:18:51 · answer #4 · answered by grnlow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe. He still would have broken the first commandment, multiply and repenish the earth.
22 And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end.
23 And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
24 But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things.
25 Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.
2007-09-29 07:56:47 · answer #5 · answered by Isolde 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Adam did NOT sin; no Prophet had sinned. As humans, they had their lapses, asked for His Forgiveness immediately and were exalted back to His Grace. Adam and Eve had a lapse. They both asked for forgiveness; they both were forgiven. The words of their supplication are recorded and repeated by humans today in every day life. We are not born with any 'original sin'. Every infant is innocent at birth.
2007-09-29 05:40:31 · answer #6 · answered by sunamwal 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Adam would have sinned no matter what. it's part of being human and why we need a Savior. so no he wouldn't be alive. all men die. and now all will be resurrected because of Christ. the purposes fro living so long were different. they had a lot of work to do in that first dispensation.
2007-09-29 05:33:51 · answer #7 · answered by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
A book you should read is called Genesis Revisited by Zacharia Stitchen it explains who The Adam is, you will find this book is very interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0380761599/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-6751461-3862464#reader-link
2007-09-29 05:35:09 · answer #8 · answered by Riley 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We are the children of God. The universe is his stage where we play our roles.
2007-09-29 05:46:39 · answer #9 · answered by Muthu S 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe God created Adam and Eve to die from the beginning. I also believe death existed in the garden. Otherwise how did they eat? How did other animals eat?
The only reason Adam and Eve could have been immortal is because of their proximity to the tree of life.
2007-09-29 05:26:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋