Eden Curse Consequences

However, evil soon entered the garden in the form of a serpent. One day when Eve was walking in the garden she encountered the evil serpent who encouraged her to take a fruit from one of God’s forbidden fruit trees. The serpent succeeded in deceiving Eve to take a fruit; she then ate the fruit and shared it with Adam. Then God became angry with Adam and Eve for betraying Him. To punish Adam and Eve, he ejected them from the garden and subjecting them to mortality, painful childbirth, sin and shame.

The consequences for sin as it relates to child bearing can be found in The Iroquois Creation Story and in Genesis. In Iroquois Creation Story, the text states that “[t]he woman was in a painful condition during the time of their disputes” (22). Similarly, Eve’s curse is relegated to her womb in

Why Does God allow suffering? This question is probably as old as religion itself. It is a stumbling block for some of us, and for many more at given moments of tragedy. There are as many answers to this question as there are people who care to engage in theological dialogue. One understanding is that yes, God allows "bad" things to happen; God does not cause them to happen.

In the Garden of Eden, Eve encounters a crafty serpent who convinces her to eat of the tree’s forbidden fruit when it says, “You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Hebrew Bible, p. 15). In one way or another, the serpent’s temptation of Eve plays right into a deep desire of being “like God”. She disregards God’s command and is enticed with the idea of breaking out of her human nature. As both Adam and Eve fall into temptation, they confront their true selves. This confrontation happens when they eat of the fruit and immediately notice a significant change. “Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.” (Hebrew Bible, p. 15). The fruit grants them knowledge and wisdom, and with it the realization that are not like God. As Adam and Eve become aware of their rooted humanity, they “sew fig leaves together to make loincloths for themselves”. This instinct to cover their genitalia, a symbol of their mortality, reveals the shame of their own transience. God uses this shame as punishment when he curses

God told Adam and Eve in the beginning that they would die on the day they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. One death was immediate; this was that they were spiritually separated from God. However, their physical bodies continued to live, but they would not live forever as God apparently intended. They would become old, sick and die. All three (Adam, Eve and the serpent) were put out of the guard and the curse came not only on them but on the whole world. They no longer had a personal communion with God.

That passage perfectly proves how the god’s are ruled by powerful passions similar to human’s—either acting out in anger or in mercy—and how fate stitches their stories together. In Islam, suffering is also not considered evil, because it is justified by trust in god’s unerring will and also the promise of reward in their afterlife (Shihadeh 772). Both ancient Greek religion and Islam believe that evil exists, but they accept it as an aspect of life that must be tolerated, rather than questioning it when it rampages through their

These are the punishments God had given Man and Woman, now called Adam and Eve, for eating from the tree of knowledge and learning about good and evil. Eve and all women will have pain before and during conception and will be a vassal to Adam and all men. Adam and all men will have to work for his food until the day he dies. Like some parents, God punished mankind when they go astray. Parent discipline their children by taking away their stuff like their phone or by grounding them.

At times it may seem like God causes suffering, but actually it is the fault of mankind. In the beginning, God created everyone to have free will because He knew that without free will, no one would be able to make their own choices (Life on Hold). Without being able to make their own choices, there would be no real love because everyone would be forced to love. Everyone would all be programmed to do the same thing, so

It is perhaps one of the most frequently asked questions of all time: if there are gods who have control over humans’ lives, why do they allow good followers to suffer? How can there be any justice in that kind of world? Philosophers and thinkers like Seneca and authors of the Bible have debated and written about these questions since ancient times. Perhaps because hardships affect every person, many people continue to debate the same topics today. Seneca writes extensively about the topic of suffering in his essay “On Providence,” which is contained in The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca. Likewise, Paul writes about how to face hardships in his letters to the Romans and the Corinthians, and the book of Job in the Old Testament contains

The Church explains how humans have grown hateful and abusive to each other. Humans have also became more selfish and arrogant, hence establishing sins, and forgetting about God. This is seen in Romans 3:23 “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Thus, the Catholic Church believes God is creating suffering, in order for humans to turn back to him and become renewed from sins. God has unconditional love, towards humans, as a result he is waiting for sinners to ask for forgiveness. Therefore the Church response to why humans experience suffering is, in order for humans to turn back to

Diffey (2014) explained that “The fall was the ultimate act of rebellion that changed the very nature of humanity” (para.12). And there was consequences of the fall for human nature. God gave a consequence to Eve and for all women, that he “will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16). Because of Eve sin, god made all women suffer pain of giving birth. Additionally, Diffey (2014) told that “In Genesis 2:17, God said that death would enter the world if they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and now, not only did sin and death affect Adam and Eve, but also their children” (para.12).

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now” (Romans 8:19-22). Paul explains to the reader that nature “was subjected to futility” (8:22). James Dunn references Genesis and the Hebrew language regarding this passage; “the LORD God formed the adam, dust from the adamah. The tie in was no doubt deliberate: the adam was formed to till the adamah; and subsequently the adamah is caught up in adam’s penalty for his disobedience (the ground cursed and its produce necessitating hard labor)…” Therefore, Paul teaches in Romans that the earth (creation) has fallen under condemnation along with man yet with the promise of man’s redemption God will also redeem His creation.

For me what was the most interesting discovery that I have encountered for Cuba, go hand in hand, the Accidental Eden- how that the island has become an ecological Eden, and that the people of Cuba are very aware of this and take great strides in trying to protect their little Eden. Also what surprised me was the farming techniques, it is truly a fully organic non-mechanized farming industry. The ecological Eden is directly under the pressure of the organic farming and the farming process.

In the Bible many characters needed to suffer and go through tragedies in order to explain the way the world worked. Characters suffered in their quests to please God, or go against his wishes.One of the many examples of trauma in the Bible involves Eve, the first woman. Eve’s suffering included: excruciating childbirth, having her husband as her master, and being forced out of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve’s decision to eat the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden lead to sin and death. Eve’s decision to eat the Forbidden fruit has changed the way humans interacted with each other.

God created the world, a place free from suffering and pain where humankind could live in peace and harmony,however when man chose the way of Satan by eating the forbidden fruit, this was the beginning of sin in the world. God makes it clear to Adam and Eve the consequences of sinning, and from this moment on suffering was declared. Since dying on the cross, through the letter of St Paul to the Colossians, Christ expects us to bind our sufferings with his. As a result of sin, God allows us to suffer because he loves us and wants us to have free will and the choice whether to love/not love. With this freedom, mankind has broken laws which result in pain and suffering which act as an early warning system when we exercise wrong decisions. Catholics believe that suffering is a test of faith and this is exampled in the book of Job where God lets good people suffer: Job loosing everything he owned, the death of his childer etc. Job examples the reaction to our own suffering. Instead of asking why, the Church teaches us to endure through our suffering and remember that God loves us and no matter the situation will lead us back home. In Pope John Paul’s apostolic