This way all the answers aren't about apples this time.
*I know it doesn’t say apple* (sorry for the tude but *duh*)
And I know it metaphorically refers to making a choice to step outside of the will of God thus taking control and responsibility for your own decisions
2007-11-01 05:04:47 · 19 answers · asked by G's Random Thoughts 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
had to rephase the question for those who couldnt see past the apple reference to the underlying question.
2007-11-01 05:05:21 · update #1
Absolutely. To believe otherwise would mean that God didn't really mean for humanity to exist here on Earth. He clearly did.
2007-11-01 05:11:15 · answer #1 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, absolutely and I think Adam and Eve knew they were suppose to take the fruit, too.
Adam and Eve were given a commandment to multiply and replenish the earth without the desires in the Garden to do so. The world and they were in a spiritual and paradisical state. The plan of God could have never gone forth if they had stayed in the garden. They knew this. They knew they couldnt stay.
They had to have quite a good knowledge of good and evil already. I think they had a good knowldedge of a great many things. God needed a way to put the world into a fallen, or imperftect state, so that most of us could fully comprehend the concepts of opposition and to be tested and gain a body. He gave the commandment knowing it would be broken so that the world could fall and the plan could progress.
I think Adam and Eve had full knowledge of this plan and I dont know if what they did would even be called sinning. I think they transgressed the law, or did not follow it, when they ate the fruit, but I dont believe the fully went against the will of God and sinned.
This is also why I dont believe Adam or the world was given any kind of original sin placed up it or them. We are born innocent. We are just in a temporary state of being seperated from God.
Adam was the worlds first prophet. Cleary God didnt hold it against them.
2007-11-01 05:21:32 · answer #2 · answered by cadisneygirl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a distinction between uses of the word "know". There's 'knowing' in the common sense, where you intellectually understand the nature of something. Then there's 'knowing' in the 'biblical' sense, where you have first-hand knowledge of something. This is often used in the sexual sense (Adam knew Eve his wife) but can also apply to any kind of first-hand knowledge. Think of knowing what murder is, and knowing what it is like to murder someone because you did it yourself. So Adam and Eve knew, intellectually, what good and evil were; good was what God wanted, evil was what God did not want. When they at from the tree, they "knew" evil because they had done evil first-hand by disobeying God.
2016-04-11 08:24:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, contrary to most Christians I believe God did intend for them to eat of the tree. I believe God wanted us to have the knowledge of "good". It just so happens in conjunction with the knowledge of "good" we also gain the knowledge of evil. In fact the two actually complement each other. Because once you experience "evil" then you have a comparative experience to know what "good" truly is.
The garden was a classroom for Adam and Eve to learn about good and evil and to become moral beings. That is to learn that there are consequences for your choices.
This type of "classroom" is something that all mankind experiences. We all learn through experience the knowledge of good and evil.
***UPDATE***
Some would counter me and say, "Then why did God punish them?". I do not view it as punishment. God was allowing them to obtain knowledge. God was allowing the to learn that there are consequences for their decisions by experiencing those consequences.
2007-11-01 05:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, Jewish thought states that it was by eating the fruit that mankind developed freewill. Knowing good and evil gave them the ability to choose their path.
Prior to that they would have enjoyed immortality and direct communion with God.
Depending on your particular belief God, being all powerful and all knowing set them up for failure.
If he isn't all knowing, then it was a test.
2007-11-01 05:13:47 · answer #5 · answered by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Look at it this way, god made Adam and Eve all naughty, then said "don't eat from that tree!" Then sent a snake which he must have created, or the devil, I cannot remember, who he also must have created coz as we all know, he created everything to tell eve to eat it...... so yes.
2007-11-01 05:20:49 · answer #6 · answered by Birdy is my real name 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No we don't serve a God like that. He simply told His children stay away from the tree of knowledge and they disobeyed. But because he designed us to make our own choices he simply let Adam and Eve have their own way.
That's like when I tell my son don't lie to me or don't sneak behind my back and he does it anyway. I didn't intend for him to lie to me. I simply wanted him to obey me. He made his own choice.
2007-11-01 05:24:41 · answer #7 · answered by Giggles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The choice was between immortality without posterity and mortality with posterity, between multiply and fill the earth and stay in the garden. We should be grateful to Eve and bless her name that it went the way that it did.
2007-11-01 05:25:44 · answer #8 · answered by Mike B 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This god made the tree of knowlege. So it had to have the knowledge. Why be ahamed of yourself nude when nobody there to compare health reasons to or anything else?
2007-11-01 05:42:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that would be classified as entrapment. The "original sin" gig was intended to be enrapturement - it's a silly typo by the publishers.....
2007-11-01 05:26:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋