2007-10-08 13:47:00 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How many times do I have to say it? The story of Adam and Eve is SYMBOLIC!!! I went to a Catholic school and this is what i was taught!!!
2007-10-08 13:53:35 · answer #1 · answered by Steve 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
What makes you think they wouldn't make the same choice again? Eating of the tree was an act of rebellion - you can't undo something like that. They both decided that they wanted more than what God had given them and they wanted to figure out right from wrong on their own and disregard God's warnings.
It's their heart attitude that cannot be fixed so easily once "their eyes were opened" that's why God promised to crush Satan's head "through the seed of a woman" - God sent the son of a virgin to undo the damage the serpent did in the garden.
God indeed forgave them and us, but not without the atoning death of his son to intercede for us. God will bring us back, full circle to paradise - only this time we will know enough about sin to reject it forever & never be deceived again, by God's grace and mercy...
2007-10-08 20:51:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It couldn't have happened that way. God had told them that they would "positively die" if they ate from the tree and he could not go back on His word. It says in Psalms that God is incapable of lying. So he had to construct a way for humankind to be saved from the original sin and he did so through Jesus Christ.
2007-10-08 21:05:46 · answer #3 · answered by Nika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd have a hard time explaining death, modesty, pain in childbirth, and the necessity for labor.
Adam and Eve ate the fruit so those things could be explained - not the other way around.
2007-10-08 20:54:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well he kind of did, seeing as in Genesis he prophecied the coming of the messiah who would be wounded on their behalf to atone for sin.
Can't forgive sin without dealing with the judical nature of God.
2007-10-08 21:18:06 · answer #5 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forgive them for what? They could not have known they were doing something wrong until after they ate (after they gained the knowledge of good and evil). Do you punish a child who cannot know that what they are doing is wrong? How much worse would your punishment be if you created them knowing this is what they would do? Total bollocks.
2007-10-08 20:54:42 · answer #6 · answered by neil s 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Put it this way'
We have no snakes in Ireland but it is no garden of Eden ..
The Celtic Tiger has distemper. and woe is me.
2007-10-08 21:00:15 · answer #7 · answered by boofuswoolie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They did not ask for forgiveness. He could not just forgive outright. That would have made Him a liar. He already said the penalty was death. To change the rules would be unjust. It could properly be said then that we could not place faith in someone who did not keep their word.
2007-10-08 20:59:43 · answer #8 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then mankind never would have been transformed into the physical realm on planet Earth.
2007-10-08 20:59:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why the hypothetical question? the story never even happened...... there is no "what if"...its like asking...what if the wolf didnt eat little red riding hood? then the wolf didn't eat little red riding hood...big deal..
oh your saying big deal the universe my *** eh?
well suck a big floppy donkey dick
2007-10-08 20:57:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋