With this whole Adam and Eve story..?

Question

If Adam and Eve didnt eat the 'fruit', then how would any of us be alive today?
I mean, I could be crazy, but intercourse is an essential process if a population is to expand.
Also, to those who believe in an age of the Earth no greater than 10,000 years, how could 2 people possibly bring about a population of 6 billion in such a time-frame?
Why was there a snake in the garden in the first place? In my opinion, it was a bit of a silly move. Maybe God could have given them some critical thinking skills so they would not be so suggestible?

I'm also totally confused how God, omnipotent being that he is, allowed and allows the Devil to exist? Surely with a mere word he would be rid from the Universe. The whole conflict in heaven thing doesnt really stack up in my mind. There wouldnt be a conflict if one of the parties is all powerful.

Answer 1

the whole story is a justification for women to be viewed as second class citizens, (supposedly "man" was giving command and dominion, not the woman)

it's very biased and full of contradictions

Answer 2

1. Sexual intercourse was created by God for 1 man and 1 woman for life. It was designed to be pleasurable for both and to reproduce offspring.
2. It is actually quite simple to comprehend our present day population being what it is in only about 6,000 years, based on population growth statistics.
3. If humans have really been around as long as evolution stipulates then 1000 earths would not be enough to contain the population that would have to exist on this planet.
4. If humans have been around as long as evolutionists allege, then where are all the graves?????????????????
5. Snakes were part of God's creation, as was Lucifer -aka the devil and Satan
6. It was not the serpent itself which deceived Eve, it was Satan who had taken on himself the form of a serpent or possessed the serpent.
7. God is allowing the devil to continue without his inevitable and upcoming judgement because He wants everyone to see that His way is really the only way. To destroy Satan before God's will and His plans are accomplished would defeat this purpose.
8. God allows sinful man to continue to live because He wants us to see exactly how ugly and destructive sin is, and that His way is the only way.
9. There was a conflict because, out of sinful pride, Lucifer rebelled against his Creator -same as we all have done- and was cast out.
10. The time will come when the devil and his angels will be cast into the Lake of Fire, which was specifically prepared for them. He will take with him as many as he possibly can
11. Satan is a defeated enemy and is kept on a short leash by God
12. Satan and sin are allowed to continue because God is patiently waiting for all those who are going to be saved to turn to Him.
13. God is extremely patient and always witholds His wrath until evil reaches a certain point. Thus it was with Sodom and Gommorah and thus it was in the days of Noah.
14. When you can prove your own omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence then you can criticize God's ways, plans and thoughts.
15. Satan is not only God's enemy, he is ours, too. He is more powerful than we are because he was created an angel. He still believes he can win this battle against God, which is why he is still waging the war.
16. The Bible not only declares that Satan is God's enemy, but it also declares that we too are at enmity with God. We are far weaker, far less intelligent and less powerful than Satan and yet that does not prevent us from rebelling against our Creator.

Answer 3

The bible easily does have a greater perfect version of Adam and Eve. the issue is that it replaced into no longer lined interior the bible. "The existence of Adam and Eve" replaced right into a miles greater informative e book and a good purchase greater consumer-friendly on the time. It basically did no longer in large condition with the different creation myths that were chosen. Then of direction there is the completed tale of Lilith. Adam and Lilith have been one being having the two lady and male areas. God decrease them in 0.5. Lilith refused to be subservient to Adam so Adam bitched to God. Lilith finally runs away and had toddlers with devil. by using the time the Angels get to Lilith to tell her to return to Adam, she already has a gaggle of little fireplace starters bounding around the caves of Hades. So what does God do. He makes Adam a sparkling spouse. regrettably Adam watches the approach. He watches the formation of the bones, veins, muscle, blood and each and each of something. whilst the female is achieved, he won't touch her. he's disgusted by using her. we don't understand what happens to her or if she replaced into ever named. that's barely after failing two times that God creates his next failure, EVE.

Answer 4

By annihilating the Devil, God is not really answering the question raised by his actions. Can we continue living and rule ourselves without God? God needed to let time answer this question. If He destroys everything and starts all over again, then, because of our free will, this would have happened all over again. Now that the question has been answered, God is giving us the opportunity to regain what we lost. After everything is brought back to normal, He will not tolerate another Satan again.

Answer 5

1.) Since it didn't happen, you don't need to worry about it!
2.) The Bible is very sexist to make women into second-class citizens (as someone already stated) Who was responsible for "Original Sin?" And who asked for the head of John the Baptist? Women...it's saddening to think that a woman would actually believe in a book that derogates them, and then go and be pi55y at a man who checks her out...ya know?

Answer 6

"If Adam and Eve didn't eat the 'fruit', then how would any of us be alive today?"

God told them to be fruitful and multiply. we all would have been here but the world would have been free from sin.

Why was there a snake...because Lucifer was tempting Eve and she fell for it.

God created Lucifer for reasons but he had plans of his own. Therefore God cast him out of heaven. Satan will get whats coming to him in due time.

Answer 7

God gave man the law and foreknew man would sin.
Man was created with free will and has a sin nature.
This nature is not changed by protecting man from his sin.
It is through the law and through sin that man realizes his need for God.
It is the heart that needs to be changed and this is done through the atonement not the law.

Answer 8

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 9

Misconception brought by the great deceit of man's religion.

First, If Adam & Eve followed God's command in the garden, man would have still multiplied and we will all be living in that garden.

It has been a common mistake to believe that "Adam & Eve" refers only to two people. In Genesis 1:27, it says: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." The word "MAN" does not refer to a single man but to a "group" or even a "multitude" of people. "ADAM" means MANKIND. The proof can be read in Gen. 5:2 that says: "Male and female created he THEM; and blessed them, and called THEIR name Adam, in the day when THEY were created."

You see, the name ADAM refers to both male and female. So we can safely conclude here that when God created man, He created not only "one" or "two" persons. He created a group or even a multitude of people. Thus, making "pro-creation" quite easier. (Happy now?)

How I wish I have more time to tackle this with you. Anyway, GOD BLESS...

(Reference: King James Bible)

Answer 10

So vary much of that story is such a myth It simply cannot be true, I have been a catholic for many years and I simply do not buy into or believe in such religious nonsense.