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1 | Was Adam and Eve's fall a good thing? | Bible general Archive 2 | Paraclete | 109039 | ||
What your husband is telling you is correct. Consider the simple fact that without Eve Adam could not fullfill the command to multiply. Had Adam refused to fall with Eve, she would have been fallan and he not, rendering their marriage void. Being fruitful and multipliying would have been impossible apart. So Adam took of the pomegrante. All of that is great if you believe the story to be literal. I Do not for the simple fact that it implodes and is inconsistent with it's own facts. Supposedly Eve was innocent and without sin until she partook of the fruit. Recall the story of the serpent tempting her. He tells her to eat the fruit. Eve responds, The Lord has warned us that in that day that we partake we will surely die. The facts are that God said do not partake or you will die. But he did not say in that day you will die. You see Eve lied to the serpent. She did what many still do when dealing with spiritual issues. She embelished the true words of God in order to make her point. She in fact lied and therefore she sinnedby lying before she sinned by partaking. So this Fall was not a fall at all it was just part of a plan. God created man with these qualities of knowledge and wisdom and free will. They are not by products of the forbidden tree. In essence the garden story is showing us that once we are willing to look knowledge in the face and deal with it, there is no turning back , no more remaining in the Garden of ignorant bliss...it is time to work, to till the ground and grow to our full potentials as gods and goddesses in embryo. For that is the image that we have been made in.. it is our divine right. |
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2 | Was Adam and Eve's fall a good thing? | Bible general Archive 2 | stjones | 109045 | ||
Paraclete; This is really preposterous. There is falsehood here, but it's not in Eve's words to the serpent. You claim to know God's exact words to Eve. You don't. The Bible only records Eve's account of God's words. So if Eve did indeed "embellish the true words of God", you couldn't possibly know it. You also put the words "in that day" into Eve's mouth. Not even the Bible published on the LDS web site has Eve saying those words. Readers of the Bible will readily understand that Eve's initial sin was her disobedience to God, not some imagined "lie" that you have constructed for her. But perhaps I'm being too harsh. Maybe it was Joseph Smith who embellished the true words of God and you're simply repeating what you've been taught. I join with mommaphs in her prayer that your eyes may be opened to God's truth. Peace and grace, Steve aka Indiana Jones |
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