A question about the logic of Adam and Eve & God.?

Question

In order for mankind to supposively know the difference between Good and Evil they had to eat from the tree of Good and Evil. So when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of Good and Evil from Eve having a little chat with a snake they did. God told them before hand surely you will die if you eat of the tree of Good and Evil. Hmmm that makes me think though, if you don't know what good or bad is how could you understand that death is a bad thing??? How could they have known God was good without eating that fruit? So of course since they did eat the fruit and everyone now has a death sentence why would God create that tree? Did he want to set up the situation so mankind would commit suicide over temptations?

Answer 1

Yeah right. How did they know what 'DEATH' was? They had never heard of it before, they didn't know what it meant, they had never seen anyone or anything die, so how could they be expected to understand god's cryptic little deceptive message? Maybe this "god" was really the devil and the "snake" was really God?

Answer 2

I can only say that we are dumb as humans and can't comprehend how adam and eve were to know death was a bad thing. Even though they didn't know it was a bad thing, they did know God told them not to and they weren't sapose to.They had seen all he created had talked to him they may have not known he was good but they knew who he was and what he had done and that he was their creator. No he did not want to set up the situation so mankind would commit suicide over temptations, he did not temp them he tested them and there is a strong difference! He also knew their and our choses and our feature but still let them be tested instead of just putting them to work or killing them and the same with every other human. GOD IS AN AWSOME GOD!

Answer 3

The metaphor is not to be taken as history. It was never intended to be taken as history except for small children. Somewhere along the line one has to grow up and interpret the symbols not as facts but as a description of the human condition and his relation with the trancendent and the nature of a UNiverse of opposites. With a trancendent God beyond oposites. It is about ourselves. Making it history loses the message.
Most people miss the point anyway. The sin wasnt the apple the sin was this when God asked who did it the man Blamed the women the women blamed the snake. No one took responsibilty for there own actions. Pointing the finger sin, isnt popular with preists and Kings who want to tell you to KILL those people there pointing at. SO the real message was changed.

The story is very very old.Imagine the first primative humanoid. The First ape to have a large enpough brain to become a sentient creature. Aware of herself aware others and aware of the concept of good and evil. Before that moment humans were animals running complety on instinct.
THat is a great story, something she would tell her sentient children and then they would tell theres . Then one day they wrote it down. THey added there own cultural references but the story is still a miracle.

Answer 4

There is no logic in it. It was written at a much later date to help justify a "man's-only" religion. The church fathers were having trouble with the Goddess religion and followers - hence the "snake" and "Eve" dooming mankind. So they cobbled together a few ancient stories with a spin and suddenly women were evil (at least in their own minds). You will also notice that there are two different versions of creation in Genesis - one in which women were created at the same time (which gets seriously glossed over since that would make them equal) and the ever-popular rib story. This led to two wives for Adam in the Jewish tradition. The first was Lilith, but she asserted her equality, told Adam where to put it, and disappeared. Then God had to create Eve to actually live with Adam.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve didn't know good or bad before they ate the fruit, so they didn't know God was good, and they didn't know death was bad, and probably didn't even know what death was. They didn't know disobeying God was bad, not knowing what bad was, so eating the fruit was not a moral issue to them (they had no morals).
It's interesting that the first people the Abrahamic religions' God created had no sense of morality, yet today many Christians talk about how atheists have no moral code because they don't believe in God.

If you want to talk about something illogical in that story, how about the ridiculous amount of inbreeding that must have happened after that? Wouldn't the children be so genetically screwed up they wouldn't even have brains, or have six eyes or something?

Answer 6

God didn't want robots. God put the tree there so that we could have free will. The only thing that they knew that was evil was eating the fruit of that tree. That was the only way to sin. After they ate that tree, they had the knowledge of good and evil, thus knew more ways to sin.

Answer 7

ok you say if you don't know what good or bad is than how can you understand what death is? Well why do they have to expierence it or see it? Why couldn't have God just instilled them with that little knowledge from the begining of there creation? Not all things can be known, they knew God was good because they seen all that He provided for them. Why did God create the tree? I have no idea, I wonder that too but that is just one of those things we won't know until we get to heaven. Also just an opinion the word death in itself sounds evil/bad. Well hope that helped, just be open minded considering your asking this type of question.

Answer 8

I was going to post the same question a couple of days ago. I wonder why He [God] put the tree right dab in the middle of the garden and made it so attractive and appetizing. Then He sent the snake to convince them. Also they, Adam and Eve, did not know good from evil so why were they punish for disobeying?

Answer 9

There is a covenant between mankind and God.
You dont need to know something is bad to not want it.
animals dont need human comprehension level to avoid death.

mankind learned the knowledge of the difference between the two.
just as theorizing about pain VS experiencing pain.
you can think of childbirth pains and actually experience are two different things.

the same with their innocent situation.

as for the concept of them being set up.

how can you chose if you have nothing to chose from...

as for their mistakes, who are we to judge if adam and his family didnt go to heaven? or do not await forgiveness on judgement day.

just because God allowed us to sin, doesnt mean you should ignore the part where God offers cleansing of all offense if you simply accept it and live your life trying not to do it again.

people waste their time too much on trying to argue the OT just so they can ignore the New Testament that says.
Love others,
do good to others.
forgive others.
help the poor.

truth is, thats what people really try to avoid.

many say you dont need god to be a good person,
put your money where your mouth is.

take 10% of ALL your income, EVERY PAYCHECK
give it to charity, sponsor a child, start your own charity, whatever,
stop making excuses to appease your guilt over your greed.

Answer 10

Satan has deceived you, men have deceived you, it was the serpent which Moses said deceived Eve, but it is Moses who deceives you.
There was no Adam, there was only Eve in the beginning.
Jesus needed not Joesph to conceive Him. Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, the seed of God the Father, the same as John the Baptist, as Abraham, as Isaac, and as Jacob. As Murry would say "you are not the father" Jesus told us to call no man on the earth our father, for one is our Father even Christ.

Revelation 12 is the truth concerning Genesis, as Jesus said, For laws were given by Moses, but grace and TRUTH came by Jesus Christ.
How about, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, or
All that came before Me were thieves and robbers. or
O'fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.
Why did Jesus say that least in heaven would be greater then John?
And you answered you own question, "YOU WILL SURELY DIE" Moses was deceived and Moses deceived us.

Read Revelation 13:10-18 who is this that Jesus is showing John, you know who it is. Read Luke 4:6 and 4:9, If you can not understand, I can not make you.

Answer 11

larri also called TODD

ADAM saw God in the form of the times new roman font form of the word LORD. meaning TODD in the form of LORD is the God that ADAM saw.

i also told the Jews
i am forever know as the I AM. meaning i spelled it out for them I-A-M.
M=IVI sealed together=IIII I sealed together
but they rejected it so i had them punished.
and

Jesus when He wondered about mean later in the milleniums that followed His death on the cross, said, why for Todd's story to be true, the writters of the bible would have had to have eternal life and time travelling ability in order to see Todd of the future, and then go back and tell the early inhabitant of euro-asia. that why they say anything is possible with God.

Is that good science fiction?
the larri, IIII I sealed together, is a real Man just as Jesus probably was. The time travelling, eternal life stuff is just an attempt to understand how the very words of the bible could be used to describe Me?

why not just admit in real life your mostly pagans, like bible commisionner Constantine?