If God is omniscient, did he he know Adam and Eve would eat of the tree?

First off, to the above poster, you're wrong. Before the fruit of the tree was eaten, death did not exist. After they ate it, death did. When God said 'if you eat the fruit of the tree, you will surely die', He was not lying; you simply assume He meant die immediately, an assumption that is completely unsubstantiated.

As for the true answer to your question, you can't expect to get the answer to a question that has been debated for hundreds of years on a place as simple as the Yahoo! Answers forum. The thing is, there are a number of theories that back the story, but without being able to prove any of them, you're going to be unsatisfied.

I'd give you an answer, but the truth is I don't know. The earliest reference to God's great plan for the human race (the eventual coming of Jesus for redemption) is first mentioned in the same chapter as the fall of man, only a few verses afterwards.

But here's the theory that might appeal to you. The stories tell of Satan (then Lucifer) leading a great rebellion against God in Heaven; God, being, you know, all-powerful, cast Satan out of heaven and into the lake of fire. Unable to get back at God, Satan did the next best thing: entered God's creation, God's child, and corrupted it. How this fits into God knowing everything I don't know, but if you read up on Felix Culpa you might find a satisfactory answer.

Like I said, you can't expect to find an answer to a question that's been pondered for generations on a forum like this. If you want to find the answer to a question of life, you have to be ready to do the necessary research, you can't just ask the question to make a point about something. If you're really interested in the answer and aren't just out to poke a hole in the theory, there's plenty of material out there that will enlighten you.

God is omniscient. He did know Adam and Eve would eat from the tree.

Did he set them up? No.

He set them in a beautiful garden...gave them work to do and said, "Have a great time here, eat all you want, but watch out for that tree over there, that food isn't good. ..As soon as they thought they were on their own, they went straight for the tree.

They had the capability to do the right thing. We can't understand that because we don't have that same capability. Any person that watches babies for any lenght of time knows we are born ready to fight, bite, steal, and ignore our wise parents.

We were with Adam in the garden...in his loins. Once Adam sinned and then had children, the sin passed to all of us.

Our parents knew by having sex a little life could be the end result. They wanted to give a little life the chance to live. They know the little life will have problems growing up, but they also knew they could teach and train the little life to love people and to help make the world a better place.

God knew us before the world was made before the fall of Lucifer.

God wanted there to be lives to make their own choices and stumble and then get up.

All God wanted was a chance for our lives to happen.

Especially true today, IF we were born, we were blessed that God knew us and wanted to give us life.

God has so much love to give and He had no one to share His love with.

Angels already love God, they can't change their minds anymore.

God made a place for Himself to Love and to receive that love back, but by choice not by a mechanical love.

Well, I think that's enough. I start confusing myself if I go further.

it truly is genuine that many experience God is omniscient - understanding genuinely each and every thing. in reality, he can if he so needs. He does no longer continually favor. He makes use of this means selectively. in element of truth, there's no favor for him to draw close each and every thing beforehand. The Bible actually shows that usually God does no longer pick to draw close beforehand, yet in truth, facilitates issues to reinforce. for instance: Abraham and his faithfulness. The account mainly comments that God did not comprehend till AFTER the try that Abraham does no longer withhold his son Isaac. certainly, God examined Abraham for this purpose – to verify such tips. Hannah J Paul

There is no God except as a comforting figment of the imagination of those who can't or won't think for themselves. The question is irrelevant because believers will deny the basis of your contention (because God is pretty much anything they claim "him" to be, capable of anything...even the most ridiculous contradictions...that of course make sense to believers) and atheists already know it's a pile of ****.

exactly, my adam questions point to this as well. If he was all knowing why give us the chance, or better yet why add eve when he knew it would be her to say cumon adam, its good!

Guys are such suckers when it comes to women. I understand God wanted to communicat the way to us and had to use a book and in it he had ideas to get across. I am sure that was not easy, and I am sure he had to dumb it down for us. but cumon.

God new i would exist, He knows theend. how then would He not know what would happen first? want faith to beleive in what God tells us in His word? ask Jesus into your life and be born again by the power of the Gospel (an actual real life event in your real life) if you do this in a prayer sincerely God will answer you!

I'm not Christian and don't care to try and defend god's position in this, I would just like to point out that 'God' is the one who lied, not the snake. 'God' told them that if they ate of it, they would surely die. The snake told them that if they ate they would gain all the knowledge of good and evil and become like gods. God lied, not the snake.

If millions of souls go to hell and are tortured it is their choice.Why are you so bitter.

What a great post!