Adam and Eve got kicked out of their garden for seeking knowledge, why?\nAnd how is it freewill if they had to pay for it? You would think he would at least respect our choices in life (I mean he gave us the freewill) but no, punishment after punishment…What’s that about hey?
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Only terrorists like knowledge! This sounds a bit un-American to me!\n\nI'm just kidding. I know what you're saying. It's not a good lesson to teach saying "God will punish you if you question his word or look for proof!". But that's the whole idea of religion: it's unquestionable. If you question it, then it all falls apart. So the church had to start the Bible with a story explaining how the pursuit of knowledge which deviates from "the Word" is the ultimate unforgivable sin.
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Adam and Eve were supposed to be perfect humans. They sinned blah blah. There is a scripture that says that God made the earth to time indefenit. So it all depends what your beliefs are. I believe God's purpose is to rid the world of evil and let humans reach that perfect state with out the evil influence. Then and there can we be tested as perfect humans and prove our loyalty to God in this world as Adam and Eve were tested. Good times!~
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I think we have first the abiity to choose. What good would it do to have options if we didn't know what to do with them? And yes, I think things need a "reference point" so to speak in order to "exist." Yet when God created the world He created everything else before he created man. Maybe this question is not as simple as it seemed when I first read it. Oh dear.
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Christian View: Basically, we brought all evil to the world when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of eden. Before that, there weren't things to harm us. We did the one thing God asked us not to do, and we have been paying for it ever since.\nScientific: Things mutate...what may have started out as no danger to humans would over a length of time change depending on what enviromental factors they were exposed to. Hense an organism which never caused a problem before could mutate into a form dangerous, or even fatal to its host.
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I have often wondered the same thing. But God is good and does not condone violence or vengence. However, if he does not condone vengence why does he punish? And why in the bible did he punish all mankind for one action of one? Or was that Adam and Eve story just an add on and not an actual event? Why would he let his own son be killed? Why were so many wars fought for religion, why would God allow that?
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Someone can easily ask a question to which they know the answer.  Usually, the reason to do that is to point something out or teach something.  Obviously, Adam and Eve had sinned.  God asked, "Adam where are you?"  Where was Adam?  He was hiding from God.  Adam's sin had destroyed his fellowship with the Lord.  God knew this and He was pointing it out to Adam.  It is a question we need to ask of ourselves?  Where am I?  Am I in fellowship with God or in rebellion against Him?\n\nn3
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I agree. I have always had an answer that combines both.  When they( Adam and Eve) were banished from The Garden of Eden (punishment for eating the apple) they were told they would be amongst the lowest  life forms. Why could He not have sent them back as a bacterium, as part of punishment, with his divine plan to go through years (even millions of years) of evolution to finally be back to human form. If he is God, evolution could be part of his Divine Plan.
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ofcourse nice question ... and this leads us to another question ...\n\nWhat was Adam's and Eve's DNA!!?\n\nJesus is like Adam ... No earthly or non-earthly father ... he is a messenger that God created from nothing just like he created Adam and Eve!
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The story of Adam and Eve was just that ... A story. It was told to make a point in spiritual truth, not as a real history. The point being that when we follow ego we seem separated from Deity. The writer of Genesis simply used Satan as a metaphor for that portion of the human mind that forms the illusion of separation, which thing we call ego. Its just a difference in terminology based on language and culture. The principle truth remains the same. God loving people in no way negates cause and effect. We do things. That's the cause. If we make bad choices we suffer the consequences. That's the effect. Cause and effect is a simple Universal law. Its not a punishment, its just the way things work. If we make good choices we can put that law of cause and effect to work for us rather than against us and instead of suffering the consequences of our actions we can reap the rewards. Which things are a matter of perception. But understanding this helps keep ego (Satan, our own "lower" nature) in check and make appropriate choices in life. ;-) ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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I want to add to your details:\n\nIf they ate an apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, it was impossible for them to know that it was wrong to eat the apple anyway, since they acquired the knowledge of good and evil only AFTER eating the apple?\n\nGod told them not to eat the apple. Well, perhaps they wouldn't if they knew that it would be -wrong- to eat the apple.\n\n"God tells Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  If this was the only way they could understand the difference between good and evil, how could they have known that it was wrong to disobey God and eat the fruit?"  ~Laurie Lynn\n\nGod isn't very omniscient or omnipotent if he cannot predict Adam and Eve's behavior in advance.
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All I can offer is my own two cents from my study. (clink, clink)\n\nBefore looking at Cain and Able, we need to look at Adam and Eve's last time in the Garden before having to leave. They had already sinned before God and was punished (the ground cursed and pain in child birth). As hard as it is to believe, Adam and Eve's sins were paid for - therefore there is no "original sin" - but that's another post!\n\nBefore getting kicked out of the Garden, God made garments of skins and clothed them. Why? As we can see in later parts of scripture, God perfers animal sacrifice because of the blood. The blood "pays" for the sins of the offerer. That's why God gave them garmetns of skins - He had shown them what was the offering that He wanted - animal.\n\nAdam then taught this to his sons Cain and Able. For Able it was easier since he already took care of the flock. Cain knew God accepted only animal offerings, but pride got in the way. Instead of going to his brother and trading a lamb for some harvest goods, Cain decided to simply offer up his goods instead of a lamb.\n\nAll Cain had to do was humble himself and ask to trade a lamb for some grain with his brother. But he was jealous that Able had it easy because he overlooked the flock.\n\nSo when Cain offered up his harvest to God, He refused it. Instead of realizing his mistake and doing something to fix it, he got angry. God then asked him what was wrong, that if he did the right thing, he would be a happier person. But Cain let anger fester in his heart until he murdered his brother.\n\nThis is a fine example of how people rather do their own thing than obey the rules God has given us for better living.
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Sounds like you've been watching "Inherit the Wind" one too many times.\n\nThe answer of course is that the Bible is not the complete account of all of Adam and Eve's family.  We know that Adam was the first flesh on the earth, and undoubtedly he had several children, two of which married.  There is nothing too scandelous about this considering that there were not too many choices originally.\n\nThose fanatic born again Bible bashers who claim the Bible is totally complete and contains ALL of God's words forget one thing----The Bible itself never makes this claim.  Whey then should they--unless their belief system is non-Biblical (which it is.)
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Adam was a perfect huiman being.  When he (and Eve) sinned against God, he (Adam) passed his sin down to the entire human race.  \n\nJesus' death paid for our sins because his blood was the right "price":  perfect. \n\nPerfect blood brought us down, and therefore only perfect blood could redeem us\n\nAnd no, it's not "fair", it's loving, and it was necessary, because we were not capable of doing it ourselves.  And people who truly accept Jesus' sacrifice will desire to please God, not take advantage of his mercy.  God can read hearts.  He knows who is sincere and who is merely trying to get away with something.\n\n(btw...i think that was a great question)
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I would ask you to pull out the Bible that it appears you're already a little familiar with. Notice. It does NOT say that Adam and Eve were the ONLY people God created, just the first. Two points:\n\nA) Cain took a wife after he killed Abel... Hmm... The only woman on Earth at the time that the Bible tells about is Eve... Where did he get his wife? (God made other individuals elsewhere).\n\nB) When God banished Cain from the garden, he said that people would surely find him and kill him, wherever he went... If his mom and dad and brothers and sisters were the only people God had created, what was he afraid of???\n\nTo your second notion, the Ages... The Bible REPEATEDLY says that God's time is not like our time and that a second to God could be a million years here on Earth. Isaiah is the best example. "My ways are not like the ways of man." Meaning, simply, that God doesn't operate the same way we do.\n\nIn summation, it is quite simple for Christians to believe in both Creation and Evolution... You just have to be willing to do your homework...
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Hahahahahaha, that's funny!!!! \nLOOK in Genesis chapter 3 verse 20----Eve was the Mother of ALL LIVING!!!!! Now what does that tell you.  (not the Mother of all living people to come later!!!!)\nRemember, verse 20 happened AFTER Adam and Eve ate from the Tree, and fell..  Later, chapter 4, Cain and Able was born.  When Cain did the Murder of his Brother, Cain went into the land of NOD and had a kid with his wife.\nWhere did the Land of NOD come from????\np.s. The BIBLE dosen't say Adam and Eve were the First People  on EARTH.\np.s.s.  It's NICER to say "Marry so they could have Intercourse to produce children"----but it's up to you how you say thing's---Have a GOOD day!!!!!!     Ditto!!!!!!
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There was no Adam and Eve. What most Christians don't want to believe is, they're more of a symbol of the first man and woman.thats it.\n And being cast-out of the garden of Eden was the awakening or loss of innocents. No there was no garden.
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God only put us here to be toys of amusement for him. He enjoys watching people suffer. Just think about it for a minute...supposedly he is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-...whatever. Yet he allows this world to be infested with disease, famine, war, death, and horrors beyond imagination. Now, how can you call a god who does all these things loving and expect him to do anything for you. People who always turn to god to help them in their struggles are just trying to find someone else to fix their mistakes. They can't handle the fact that their god probably doesn't like them. God allows all these atrocities on earth to occur and doesn't lift a finger. The question you should really be asking is "Why do I worship a god that does not care?" God did not give us free will. And as far as free will in the respect to god goes, if it had not been for Satan, we would all be wandering around in complete servitude without even realizing we were slaves. By tempting Eve to eat that apple, if you believe the story, he gave us the ability to realize our slavery. Furthermore, anyone who says that we have free will given by god should examine their religion further. How can it be free will when he says that to disobey him will result in a tormenting eternity of fire and brimstone? Are these really choices...slavery or fire? I will thank God for nothing. My thanks go to the god of the underworld for giving me the knowledge to know these lies as they are.