If one interprets the Biblical creation narrative literally, several paradoxes--or apparent paradoxes--immediately present themselves. This is one of them.
The ultimate paradox, though, is the one where an all-knowing, all-powerful and loving God fashions a new creature (man) with no knowledge of or capacity to tell right from wrong (knowledge of good and evil), and places him in a garden within immediate proximity of an object of temptation (the fruits of the trees of the knowledge of good and evil and of eternal life) and an agent of temptation (the devil). If this were a test, it would have been deliberately set up such that the objects under scrutiny (us) would fail.
Why would an omniscient, omnipotent and presumably loving Creator wish to create the conditions by which His new creation was guaranteed to do the ONE thing which s/he was instructed NOT to do? Could it be that this Creator wanted us to fail for some reason? If so, what/why?
Or maybe the entire Bible is presented to us as a kind of riddle or test to see how we resolve these dilemmas while remaining in the context of a reverent (worshipful) relationship with the Creator.
Did God know that Eve would disobey him?
kir
2012/07/29 01:06:49
|
|
|||||
|
7 votes
|
|
8% | |||
|
46 votes
|
|
55% | |||
|
31 votes
|
|
37% | |||
Is God omniscient? I have to wonder that. When Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil she disobeyed a direct command from God, yet would God not have known that she would do so already?
If he knew then there's a flaw in the all knowing all powerful concept of the Christian God, and he is all knowing then it seems rather... evil to punish someone for doing something that you knew that they would do.
If he knew then there's a flaw in the all knowing all powerful concept of the Christian God, and he is all knowing then it seems rather... evil to punish someone for doing something that you knew that they would do.
Top Opinion
-
Nimitz 2012/07/30 06:43:34
or "effects"...???...
intrinsic consequences-
arising from the changes...
wrought by the fruit-
whether one believes in deity...or not...
i think most would agree...
the universe...
tests and tempers us all-
To say he knew would be to impute bad motive to him. He made her perfect. He endows each human free will - to choose either to serve him or not. Simple.
of course, some (not me) will jump up to say that God doesn't exist ...
and he knows what will happen in each road. and even then he knows our original choice but he gives us the change still to change it. he never gives up no matter the road the road we choose he just keep hoping we wake up and choose the right one.
if God is so terrible for punishing us when He knows beforehand that we're going to make a bad choice, how much do we suck as parents when we do the SAME THING?
If you've never given your child a chance to screw up on their own, you've also not given them the chance to succeed on their own. Likewise, if you neglected to punish them for a BAD decision or reward them for a GOOD one, you have denied them the opportunity to learn a life lesson. In that case, you should be sterilized.
I say we applaud and PRAISE God for His wisdom, and showing how our lives here reflect His generosity and superiority!
Worse yet, would you throw your child out of the house for not listening to you and let him suffer for the rest of his life?