Why Is Adam And Eve Disobeyed To Conserve Innocence?

Adam and Eve was placed by God in a perfect newly created world. They were free and commissioned to rule the earth with authority and dominion without any restrictions on how to accomplish this task. However, Adam was instructed by God not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which would reflect his dependency on God: “You may eat freely of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in that day that

The Garden of Eden is a biblical story in which God has formed the earth in 7 days, and after that has made human in his own likeness. He made the first human that has ever walked on this earth, and his name is Adam. Later on, God thought that man shouldn’t be alone. “The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him… Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.” (Genesis 2). Adam and Eve lived in a place of paradise which is called The Garden of Eden, they were free to explore and enjoy the land but God has requested only rule from them. God has clearly said that they can enjoy the fruits from all of the trees but forbids them to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But temptation has come in Adam and Eve’s path, which lead to Eve giving into that sin in which eventually has lead Adam doing the same thing for she decided to have Adam eat the fruit as well. “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.” (Genesis 3). When they have eaten the fruit, they’ve come to realization that they were both completely naked and made clothes out of leaves. Once God has seen them

The question that I will be exploring over the course of this essay is: What is the best explanation we can give why Adam and Eve take of the forbidden fruit in the Genesis story of the Fall ( see Genesis 1-3 )? I will be dividing this essay into two sections and look at two aspects: Theological and Philosophical. In regards to this I will also look at the Genesis story and outline three things:

Genesis chapters one through three are the story of creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and their choice to disobey God. The creation story is covered in Genesis 1-2:3 where it states God made the Earth and everything on it in seven days. Genesis chapter two verses four through twenty-five talk about God creating Adam and then Eve from one of Adam’s ribs. The third chapter of Genesis tells of Adam and Eve decision to eat the fruit God forbid them to eat. That is the short and simple summary, but there is always more to look at than just the basics, especially with the Word of God. This is where my confusion begins, I believe the Bible to be the word of God because my pastor, church family, and religious leaders have said so and I trust them. This is the root of faith, believing what cannot be “scientifically” proven. Where people who do not have faith learn and study data that work to disprove the Bible. I believe because I know, in my heart, that God is alive and He is good. That is all. I know from my life experiences this is true. When an agnostic or atheist asks how do I know, they want physical evidence; I do not have an answer for all the questions they have conjured up amongst themselves. I do not even have answers to questions I have, I just believe. In this section of Genesis I do not understand how God made the world out of nothing, and how He did it in seven days time. I know He did because the Bible says it happened that way, yet there are

Eve 's transgression in the Garden set the tone for millennia of fealty to the Church. A basic belief of this dominant political power has been that humans are inherently sinful and in order to remedy this inevitable defect a life lived according to the laws of the Church may provide salvation.

I first acknowledged the story of Adam and Eve as a young adult, but never truly grappled the details of the story. I thought that I understood the general message that the story stated: Don’t sin. However, the story of Adam and Eve runs deeper than just a simple provocation. The story of Adam and Eve is contained within the story of Genesis, which depicts God’s creation of life as we know it to be in the present. At the hands of God, the Earth and the life that inhabits it was born. The existence of man is also expounded upon within this overall Genesis tale. Man is first described as an immortal being that is open to the luxuries provided to him within the Garden of Eden, a dominion far from Earth. Man is also given a companion, a woman. The story of Adam and Eve then arises out of these human creations. The beauty and harmony that we witness due to the Creation story is then ripped from us in the story of Adam and Eve. In the story of Adam and Eve, we witness a choice which has everlasting consequences. The serpent, seen as the embodiment of evil, tricks Eve into making a choice that causes her and Adam to fall out of God’s grace. The luxuries and powers that were granted to these creations before their “original sin” are then subsequently withheld from them. Through Eve’s act of sinning, the present suffering, tribulations, illnesses, woe, and death are brought to the Earth.

In Judaism Eve told God’s instructions to a serpent, which God’s instructions were to not touch “the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.” No one knows how Eve knows God’s order, especially since Eve was not technically yet created (Kyam Ch. 5). In Judaism, Eve was not to blame for what happened in the Garden, unlike in Christianity. The serpent touches the forbidden tree without getting hurt, and then proceeds to tell Eve that since touching the tree is harmless, so will eating its fruit. “Since Eve originally received the common from Adam, not God, Eve concludes that Adam somehow got God’s command wrong and proceeds to eat the fruit’

Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Pentateuch, marked the remarkable God-given creation of humankind - as well as its first sin. In Genesis 1, God created the world for man and subsequently created a partner for him from one of his ribs; this partner was the woman. Later, in Genesis 3:1-7, the first woman, Eve, was tricked into disobeying God by eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and convincing her husband, the first man, Adam to do so as well. This sent the message that Eve - and women in general - were not to be trusted and - to some extent - ‘evil’ (as Eve was responsible for the first punishment of mankind). Although this religious story was one-dimensional in the sense of its purely negative symbolism of Eve, by

I never thought about how that story evolved into people becoming sinners. As a child I never understood why God cast them out of the garden. As many times as my parents would explain the concept I didn’t understand it, because my understanding of God was that God was a forgiving God. So as a child I didn’t understand why Adam and Eve couldn’t get a second chance. Now as I read the books and lessons from this class I realized that God had his reasons for casting them out of the garden. They disobeyed God the one who gave them everything they needed and he asked one thing of them. They were just that ungrateful they didn’t care about God’s commands, and they chose to listen to something that was evil. As an adult now I understand God’s reasoning’s and I agree with the reasoning and I also agree that this is why this story is considered the fall of man.

After the fall in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve bicker and blame one another for their decent. First, Adam accuses Eve for her physical act of accepting the apple from Satan and eating it, thus defying God’s decree not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. In retaliation, Eve responds and attempts to not only justify her act, but also to place the blame on Adam. Eve’s reaction is typical of someone who does not like to admit he is wrong.

In the garden stood "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," whose fruit was not to be eaten. When Adam and Eve went against God and ate the fruit, God banished them from the garden, sentencing them and their descendants to a life of hard work, pain, disease, and eventual death, and submitting the earth itself to servitude. Christians call this humanity 's "fall" from innocence.

From what we are taught, well from what I learned growing up, one day they decided to disobey the Lord by eating the forbidden fruit and because of this they gained Knowledge. This was the first sin that was committed. From the class discussion I realized how this one story has many different interpretations that I found interesting learning

The Tower of Babel, the Fruit of the tree of Knowledge, and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden all share in common the stern consequences of human actions in the face of God. The significance of these biblical events are often associated with negative views of the punishments that were placed. The Tower of Babel is associated with God’s punishment of “scattering” humans across the earth thus separating a once unified people. The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden for eating the Fruit of the tree of Knowledge is discerned as a negative outcome for man’s wickedness. Although there is significance in the punishments God places on humans in these chapters of Genesis, positive effects do emerge from these events as well. Among the repercussions of human’s sin emerge free will, the power of choice, and the ability for human beings to develop and evolve.

During Adam and Eve’s time in the Garden of Eden, God gives the pair just one rule to follow. God commands Adam and Eve, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17). This rule is not obeyed as a result of the serpent tempting Eve. She falls victim to the temptation and eats the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil then gives the fruit to Adam who eats as well. God fulfils His promise and punishes Adam and Eve by sending them “out of the garden of Eden” and away from the tree of life (Gen 3:23). Adam and Eve’s punishment is not just exile but a slow death, because this punishment strips them of the ability to “take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever” (Gen 3:22). Adam and Eve’s

In the beautiful Garden of Eden, human life began. God said, In the likeness of God, Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, entrusted to steward God's magnificent creations. They have full authority and access to the Garden at all times except for one thing that God had forbidden – to not eat from the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil". However, things began to plummet when they've committed the act of disobedience because of the enemy's deception.