or ourselfs for the evil in this world?
2007-11-27 05:15:49 · 25 answers · asked by grfisgd 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I believed him it I'd blame God. I mean it was its choice to create Satan, Adam, Eve, and the apple tree.
2007-11-27 05:19:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Since I do not, and have never, believed in the devil, and do not take the bible literally, my answer is going to be what I believe, personally, and not what any particular religion teaches.
We all have free will. We make choices, good and bad, and everyone on this planet creates a "hell" here on earth, or a "heaven" here on earth.
Blaming anybody or anything is not going to improve matters.
We shoud put blame to one side, and see that it all begins with us individually, one person at a time.
If we are being negative, it will add to the negativity, if we are being positive, and more people start thinking positively. we will gradually improve the circumstances of this world.
It should begin with us individually. We should not put blame anywhere, not even ourselves. The mistakes we make we can learn from, and by learning, it puts us one step further into having a good life.
Everyone, has a choice. We can choose to put our problems on somebody else, or we can decide to work on ourselves, and become the best that we can be.
Blame shouldn't even be in the picture, because that is a judgement. We blame that person for his/her actions, that means we are judging that person.
If you turn the word "evil" around it spells LIVE. I would rather go by the word LIVE, than the word "evil". Live a loving, positive, giving, compassionate, nonjudgemental life, and everyone will feel the benefit.
2007-11-27 05:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by Maureen S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Devil is the first "sinner" mentioned in the Bible, however, we have inherited our sinful nature from Adam. (Romans 5)
Having said that, the Devil and Adam get more blame for the evil that exists in our world today than they should.
Each person has a free will and unless he has been born again will often choose evil.
Because of the fact of our sinful nature our sinful nature can and does win out, even for believers. True christians are sinless, but they do sin less.
Believers have been saved from the penalty of sin, and from the power of sin, and eventually will be saved from the presence of sin.
2007-11-27 05:28:47 · answer #3 · answered by truthsayer 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All of the above. It sometimes requires conscious effort to commit evil. It always comes to a choice. We decide which way we go. Adam & Eve causes us to die and fall short. Satan wants to take as many of us with him into destruction. We have proved him a liar in thinking EVERYONE only would follow Jehovah for what they got out of Him and leave Him for Satan if he offered more or different.
Satan and his demons are only a few compared to all of earth's population. Even working overtime, they can only do just so much. Fortunately, Satan learned to put his evil to work for him even when he isn't there. The first money management scheme. Man does a fine job of cruelty to each other on their own. We have a haughty nature requiring us to have someone to look down our noses at. Someone we feel alright to oppress. So we compound the interest on Satan's evil all by ourselves.
It becomes like wearing advertising on teeshirts. Today we give free advertising to anything AND we pay for the teeshirt! Companies should pay us for the advertising! Doing evil only benefits Satan, never us. It is the same value as a teeshirt.
2007-11-27 05:39:15 · answer #4 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, if you consider the notion that God was supposedly "all-knowing", then he had to have known exactly what would have happened before he even created the world in the first place. He had to have known what would happen when he made the tree and the serpent in the first place.
If he didn't, then he is not all-knowing.
If he did, then he's a sadist of the worst sort.
And now back to Sanity FM:
The story is just that: A made-up story by desert nomads to explain their origins and why the world was such a harsh place to live in. Just like so many other made-up stories by so many other cultures in the world.
There is no basis in fact here.
2007-11-27 05:26:59 · answer #5 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That shows sexism RIGHT there. Lilith was the first woman and she was made from earth, just like Adam. Then, she asked for equal rights with him because she thought she was equal with him for they are both made of earth. She refused to be Adam's inferior, thus she was kicked out of heaven and was erased from the Christian bibles, but still remain in Babylonian. That is the reason why God made Eve out of Adam's ribbone, to make women an inferior, thus they would obey him. Eve wasn't as rebelling, but she decided to get out of Eden Garden, the artificial happiness, in her unconscious mind, and thus that brought us here today. I mean, if you are in this "perfect happiness", then you wouldn't be able to do anything because you're happy. Then, if you are there for a while, then you wouldn't know if you're happy for real, but that is the perfect happiness. Soon you can't do anything except to sit down at the edge of heaven and just drool off your saliva. It would've been the same for them as well. In a sense, Eve is our savior. Yet, those sexist men and their sexist God blame us for our "original sin".
2007-11-27 05:39:35 · answer #6 · answered by Polaris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eve sinned first, but Adam was more than happy to join in (if Adam had been there first, it would have been him).
The devil tempted them while also giving snakes a bad name, but the devil can't make you do anything.
2007-11-27 05:20:38 · answer #7 · answered by hottieredhead69 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well you could blame God as he was the one that created the devil with full knowledge that he would rebel, and he put the tree in the garden with the same full knowledge that A & E would succumb to the temptation.
Or you could objectively look at the evidence, and rightfully conclude that there is no supporting evidence for the bible, and hence it is no different than any other myth.
2007-11-27 05:21:45 · answer #8 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
But Eve was part of Adam so dont blame her alone. Why not blame God? He is the one who allows evil in the world to test us.
2007-11-27 05:24:42 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If it is at the behest of the devil only that Adam had 'sinned', he should thank him (the devil). Otherwise, Adam and Eve would have wasted all their lives without knowing what to do. It would have been a waste of the available natural resources.
2007-11-27 05:22:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is fully right and proper to blame the Devil for the evil introduced to this world, but at the same time, it is ourselves that allowed the Devil to whisper in our ear instead of rebuking him and telling him NO.
2007-11-27 05:19:54 · answer #11 · answered by redfeather1972 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋