Didn't he say he was going to kill Adam and Eve if they ate of the tree of life? They did it, why did he lie to them?
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He didn't say he'd kill them on the spot.  He said they'd surely die.  Before they ate the fruit, they hadn't been guilty of sin or deserving of death.
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Actually, the real question is, why would he have to rest on the 7th day?\nWhy would he have to communicate via a burning bush.\nWhy would he have to kill over and over (floods, plagues)\nWhy would he be upset at us for gaining knowledge of good and evil?\nWhy would he want us to be mindless sheep?\n\nThese are not things that, by definition, any god would ever have to do.
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He didn't.\n\nIt is a cute story for children.\n\nNot an accurate historical account of anything.\n\nAnd not even original.\n\nThe story was taken from Gilgamesh, an old Sumerian folk tale that is much older than the Bible.
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i believe what "wants.." said. \n\nif they dare to kill Jesus, you think they can't mess with his book? \n\ni think they change the words of God to sell it with little bit of money to the people. i believe this is what happend. and ofcurse they change the words from its place so it can fit what they desire. \n\nit's sad all those people following a Bible that has been changed by few liars. !\n\ni wish all of them see the truth like how God showed me the truth. love you Islam.
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These verses aren't saying the same things at all, and you aren't understanding them because you are looking at them out of context.  These are all from the NRS.\n\nGen 3:  14 The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."\n\n16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."\nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=Genesis+2&section=0&version=nrs&new=1&oq=&NavBook=ge&NavGo=2&NavNextChapter=%3E%3E&NavCurrentChapter=2\n\nHere in Genesis 3:16, YHVH is telling Eve that her punishment for eating of the Tree of Knowledge is to have pain during childbirth, and yet to still desire sexual relations with her husband in spite of it; that her husband will rule over her on account of her desire for sexual relations with him.\n\nGen 4: 3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, 5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n6 The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." \nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=ge+4&version=nrs&language=en&showtools=0\n\nHere, in Gen 4:7, YHVH is telling Cain that if he does good things he will be happy; that Cain should desire to do good things because good things desire Cain to make good things manifest.  But evil things also desire Cain to make evil things manifest, and so Cain must learn to control himself - to gain mastery over himself - in order to differentiate between good and evil, and then presumably choose good over evil because man's natural state is godlike and therefore good.
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Let me give you something to think about. \n\nAccording to the Bible, God is all knowing, right? \n\nWhen he told Adam & Eve, "Do whatever you want, but don't eat fruit from that tree," he knew that Adam & Eve would be snacking on that fruit in due time. How do I know this? God is all knowing. \n\nSo, if God is all knowing, and he knew they'd eat from the tree, why was he so ticked off? HE KNEW THEY'D EAT FROM THE TREE.\n\nEither God is one angry, irrational, and illogical being, or he's not all knowing. If he's not all knowing, what other flaws does he have? \n\nConsider the Garden of Eden as allegory, and that changes the dynamic of the question. Given a choice between a blissful but ignorant life, or a difficult but knowledgeable life, I'd choose knowledge. However, I would really kick myself for not staying dumb and happy. Human nature, what can you do? \n\n(The Matrix movies are a great example of choosing Eden or choosing reality. Overall, I think humans want to know the truth of things.)
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Good question. Do you believe in the Bible? If not, there is no point in giving biblical answer. But, if you do you may find this view helpful.\n\nGod did not destroy Lucifer--including Adam and Eve--immediately after their rebellion in Eden because an important issue was raised. If God destroyed immediately the 3 rebels then other intelligent creations--the angels or spirit beings-- would have thought that the 3 rebels were right. This issue--which you and I face--needed time to be solve.\n\nISSUE: DOES MAN NEED GOD TO GOVERN HIMSELF? Satan said: 'NO, man by himself can know what is good and bad. He does not need God'. By raising this issue the wily serpent turned the 1st man and woman as his worshipper. (Read and understand Genesis 3:2-4; Luke 4:5-7)\n\nThis issue on Sovereignty--the right of God to rule--was again raised by the Israelites. They have turned away from the true God and worship other gods. (1Samuel 8:4-8) Guess who would be behind this?\n\nBut, try as he might Man and Satan can not really make a better world for us. We have tried so many forms of government. All are failures--monarchy, demo-crazy, (pun intended), oligarcy, communism, etc. Nothingh works.\n\nSo, God has set up a time when he will destroy all these governments under the control of Satan. (Dan 2:4; Rev 12:9) Yes, all humans who dishonor God--including fornicators, criminals--and SATAN will be destroyed eternally by God. Revelations 20:10; 21:8 says they will suffer 2nd death for which there is no resurrection. This 2nd death is illustrated by a lake of sulfur and fire.
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Yeah, it's like putting a 4 year old in a room and specifically telling him, "You can look in every box in this room.  But DON'T look in this one particular box."\n\nHe's going to head straight for it.\n\nAnd you have to figure, Adam and Eve would've been supremely naive.  It would be a bit harsh to deal out all the punishment that billions of human's have endured because of one damn apple.\n\nHowever, the tree was not really real.  It just shows that we are evil because we can know the difference between good and evil.  This knowlege makes us responsible for that evil we do.  This is re-affirmed when Jesus said, "Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do."  You're not guilty if you don't know.\n\nBut WE KNOW the evil we perpetrate, for the most part.  We KNOW when we are assuming things without verifying the fact, and we KNOW when we are talking trash about someone.  We're all pretty base.  Hopefully we all continually try to better ourselves.
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Who said He would endlessly torture you?  Someone is perverting what the Bible does say, don't believe them.
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2. You're wrong about the second scripture. God told Noah to take in two of every unclean animal, but to take in the clean animals by sevens. You were close, though. Thanks for shooting down a common myth. \n3. Yes. He had to tell the truth in the book of Job, when God asked Satan what he had been doing in the world. \n6. Yes. God will come down to establish a 100-mile high and 100-mile wide city on the earth. \n7. Abraham did have two sons. He had Isaac and Ishmael. The Jews that descended from Abraham, though, are also counted as his children.
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Not sure I understand your question.\n\nAnyway this is my answer:\n\nJehovah had warned Adam and Eve that if they were disobedient and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, they would die “in the day” of their eating. (Genesis 2:17) True to his word, Jehovah called them to account on the very day of their sinning and pronounced the sentence of death. From God’s standpoint, Adam and Eve died that day. To carry out his purpose regarding the earth, however, Jehovah allowed them to produce a family before they died physically. Nevertheless, since God can view 1,000 years as one day, when Adam’s life ended at 930 years, it was within one “day.”  Thus Jehovah’s truthfulness was upheld as to when punishment would be executed, and his purpose for the earth was not thwarted by their deaths. But for a time, imperfect people, including wicked ones, have been allowed to live.
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Lev.18\n[22] Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.\n\nLev.20\n[13] If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.\n\nRom. 1\n[26] For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:\n[27] And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
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Good point. This 'good loving god' totally set-up Adam & Eve, then blamed THEM for it. It would be like putting crack cocaine in a cookie jar, telling your kids never to eat it, then releasing a clever drug dealer who would try to convince them otherwise.\n\nWhat a silly story, and you're a BAD EVIL GOOD FOR NOTHING ANGRY SPITEFUL VENGANT MONSTER!!!!\n\nNothing more.
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While looking for on-line bible quotes to write my answer, I discovered something about the bible.  It's a "living" document.  \n\nFor Genesis 2:17,\nThe King James version (which was used for hundreds of years) says: "for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."  \n\nThe "New American Bible has:"\n"the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die."\n\nThere's a big difference in being doomed to die, which every living thing is, and being doomed to die today.\n\nMany of the answers given here said that God didn't really mean die, he meant "spiritual" death.  If that's what God meant, why isn't that what God said?  \n\ncagedape calls Kimmy an idiot. then explains what God meant; "Mankind would forever be changed by man being suceptible to death.  Adam and Eve would have been inpervious to death...".  Well Cagedape, that's not in the Bible, and if it's what God meant, I wonder why god didn't say what He meant instead of relying on you to explain it to us "idiots".\n \nCstorm: Claims "there wouldn't have been ANY death before the first sin."  It's a nice theory, but it's not in the bible.  Not only does everything die, everything ends.  The earth will be swallowed up when the sun becomes a supernova.  The idea that we would have lived forever if it wasn't for that darn serpent is, well, a little simplistic, naive, and childish.\n\nPathfinder: Claims god cannot lie.  I can lie.  Does that mean I can do something God can't?\n\nRandy is correct, it's only a tale.\n\nSuppose you left your children alone in a room prepared for a party, and you told them they could eat or drink anything, but not the chanpagne, if they drank from the chanpagne they would die.  They would of course drink the chanpagne, and you could be found guilty in a court of being a deliquent parent.  You would also have lied, and saying "but I meant spiritual death" wouldn't cut it.  Believers cut god a whole lot of slack, otherwise they couldn't keep believing.
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Well, i may not know everything. but i do know one thing: the reason we lie is very simple. I don't know if you believe in God, but here goes. Satan came into this world, and told the first lie in the history of the Earth. And now, Satan is controlling the world. I am not saying that he is controlling the people who are in charge, but he IS in control of alot of things that are happening. Very soon, Jesus will come again. When that time comes will you guys be ready?\nBTW, if you want to know more about other ?s, check out my myspace. Just search for Adam Zerbee, and invite me for a friend.
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Well, to restate it slightly for purposes of clarification, in the Hebrew Scriptures, an unblemished lamb was sacrificed in accord with what God says at Leviticus 17:11:  it is the blood that makes atonement (not God's wrath – but atonement).  That is why Paul said what he did as you quoted.  So all those animal sacrifices - which were not sufficient to bring lasting atonement (inasmuch as animals are inferior to man) – pointed to the one sacrifice that would balance the scales of justice.  Yes he rose again from the dead but this does not mean he was not sacrificed.  In order to understand the ransom, you must understand what was owed.  Adam was a perfect human person – no more and no less. Adam was not an animal, Adam was not half God and half man, Adam was not half angel and half man.  To understand the payment, one must understand the debt. To balance the scales, a perfect human person had to be sacrificed.  That is what Jesus was on earth:  a perfect human person.  That is why the scriptures call him the last Adam.  He existed in the heavens as a spirit creature before being born as a human.  He sacrificed his perfect human life.  This is the key:  he did not sacrifice his right to ever live again.  He sacrificed his perfect human life.  Therefore, he was resurrected as a spirit creature and returned to heavenly life.  Now, IF he returned as a human again, THAT would invalidate his sacrifice.  But as it is, he did not sacrifice his right to live – he sacrificed his life as a perfect human man.
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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!!!!!!