2007-10-06 05:04:27 · 16 answers · asked by R.C.P. 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not trying to blame them... just asking ;)
2007-10-06 05:28:02 · update #1
That is like the teacher punishing everyone in the class because one child acted up. I doubt many Christians would like it if their child was punished because another child hit the teacher with a spitball or cheated on a test.
2007-10-06 05:10:37 · answer #1 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Since we are individual living entities, we are the only one responsible for the results according to the decisions we make. If you are here in this crazy miserable world, is because you choose it.
I say that when the Bible talks about what Adam did, it's talking about what we ourselves did. We were there "in the beginning" ourselves, because, being God's offspring and made in His image, we are not material beings but spiritual beings. So we're eternal. That's the very nature of spirit: it never comes into being; it never goes out of being. That's why in the Bhagavad-gitä the soul is described not only as ajah, "unborn," and nityah, "eternal," but also as puranah, the oldest.
This means that all of us are primordial persons. When the Bible talks about Adam, then, it's actually talking about us.
We decided that we didn't want to serve God but wanted to become God ourselves. In other words, we became envious of God and wanted to take His place. That is our fall. And we are still fallen to this day because we still have that attitude.
You see, as the offspring of God, made in His image, we inherit the qualities of God—like Him, we are eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. But we possess those divine qualities in minute quantity. For we are not God. God is great and One without a second. We, His creatures, are tiny and many without number. The creator is independent, and we are dependent. The dependent many are by constitution eternal servants of the independent One, and as long as we act as servants, we remain in the kingdom of God and enjoy full divine life with Him.
But some among the innumerable, dependent souls don't like that subordination. We thought—and still think—it better to be God. We rebellious souls are sent into the material world, a place created just for us to play out our fantasies. We cannot be God—the post is filled—but here we can forget Him and work on our own little God projects.
Now we have dedicated some of our best brains to furthering this struggle; and bestowed upon suffering humanity the ripe fruit of our original sin.
That's why this world is so crazy and hellish.
2007-10-06 06:08:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take a look around you at all the people in the world today.....how many of them "choose wisely"?
The fact is that people suffer everyday not because of their own actions, necessarily, but from the actions of another. A child who is abused suffers because of the choice of their abusive parent. A family suffers because of the choice of someone to drink and drive, who then crashes into them. That is, unfortunately, the result of free will.
How many people have YOU hurt with your behaviors in your lifetime?
You don't run through the streets screaming about PEOPLE being responsible...instead you want to yell at God and call Him unfair.
2007-10-06 05:11:47 · answer #3 · answered by lady_phoenix39 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No...life was never designed to be fair...besides, NOBODY chooses wisely ALL of the time. Even if Adam and Eve managed to always choose wisely, trust me, I would have blown it for the rest of us.
2007-10-06 05:11:08 · answer #4 · answered by 4999_Basque 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve has nothing to do with how we act, take some responsibility
2007-10-06 05:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by M-S 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
put in the same positions, I doubt anyone else could actually "choose wisely". I mean, we're presented with our own choices every day and are they really all the good ones?
2007-10-06 05:13:16 · answer #6 · answered by Gethsemane 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think living in a world in which nothing happens would be crazier than this. I'm glad they did what they did. I mean, knowledge is worth all the trouble.
2007-10-06 05:07:59 · answer #7 · answered by Totally Blunt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. The Adam and Eve tale is fiction. Humankind survives in an indifferent universe based on labor and skill; fairness has nothing to do with it.
2007-10-06 05:10:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Playing the blame game, huh?
Technically, you don't HAVE to live in "this crazy world."
2007-10-06 05:15:00 · answer #9 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve are mythical figures. They didn't decide anything anymore than Harry Potter decided anything.
2007-10-06 05:07:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋