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Why could God not have simply overlooked Adam and Eve's sin & saved mankind from all the suffering?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    How the issue has been handled is an eye-opener into the size of the drama.

    If Jehovah God just allowed Adam & Eve to go on without consequence then law & justice would mean nothing.

    This issue is HUGE. It involves all intelligent creation on Earth and in heaven. Angels are watching with interest how this goes and Adam as a man . .and Satan as a spirit creature are two bad examples of disobedience.

    We are involved in an issue that shows that humans on Earth are the first created beings for any planet in the universe.

    Think about it . . if there was any other faithful, obedient beings on another planet anywhere . .then Jehovah could have wiped out Adam & Eve and showed the angels that human creatures elsewhere were obedient . All the universal beings can see that humans here had chosen badly and set the first example of universal sin. Satan and Adam & Eve are the first (and only) precedent that set in train the tragic outcome we see today.

    Mankinds time to show the results of human rule is nearly over. . .It is setting an everlasting precedent that Jehovah will call on in any future disobedience by humans or angels.. If anyone is disobedient after Jesus Kingdom sets things right . .then the death penalty will be instant.

  • 1 decade ago

    Mankind would still suffer. Suffering was not brought upon man by God directly. Suffering is a result of disobedience to God. When a human disobeys God it automatically ruins the conscience and causes chemical reactions within the body and damages the genetic make up of humans. This causes imperfection and thus suffering. Man becomes imperfect in thoughts and emotions and this leads to a variety of other physical, mental, and emotional complications. Besides, what Adam and Eve did violates divine justice and what is right. So, God could not simply overlook what Adam and Eve did. Their disobedient conduct has affected all of humanity.

    There is good news though. God is now gathering people who are tired of the suffering to gain salvation from suffering. Those who respond to the good news about God's kingdom will be relieved from suffering and gain eternal life in an abundance of peace.

    Source(s): Bible
  • 1 decade ago

    First off, that would make God a liar. But there was also another dispute raised. And that was God's right to rule. True he could have proved his power by destroying Adam, Eve and the rebellious angel known now are Satan. But that would not prove his love for mankind.

    In the opening verses of Job it talks about Satan's accusations toward mankind. Now for many Satan's accusation is a lie. If someone lies about you, don't you like it when you can prove they are lying about you? Most of the time, doesn't that proof take some time? God did the same for us, he is letting us prove Satan is a liar.

  • 1 decade ago

    It would not make sense to overlook such a grave wrongdoing as that. Doing so would have set a precedent that death was not necessarily the consequence of sin. As unloyal as Adam and Eve proved trhemselves to be then, would it not have been even easier for them to be disloyal after having such an unjust pardon? They would have sinned again, and we would be suffering still.

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  • Missy
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Because he keeps his word. Genesis 1: 15 And Jehovah God proceeded to take the man and settle him in the garden of E′den to cultivate it and to take care of it. 16 And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. 17 But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.

  • What was it ? 1/3th of the heavenly host joined Satan .

    God could have wiped them out along with Adam & Eve & just started again .

    What would the remaining 2/3rds of the heavenly host have thought ? God is scared , Jesus himself could have questions Gods ability . God had to give Satan enough rope to hang himself because Satan challenged God .

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    To me its symbolic for humanity sinning against God. Its God allowing us to sin and giving us the opportunity to prove our worth.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because Sin has a price

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Princess, while I feel your query is meant as mocking, none the much less it is an exciting question. I think many persons are very harassed with production thinking that after God made Adam that Adam was the finished product. Many individuals today believe God is completed with construction. This story of Adam and Eve and the 2 trees is more than literal however has deep religious which means. God is certainly more than best and has an eternal plan for man. This plan is represented within the garden via the tree of lifestyles. We see this plan coming into fruition via Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. There are two timber in the backyard the primary is the competencies of good and evil.. This represents God's righteousness (The law) the other tree represents God's mercy the tree of lifestyles which demonstrates God's plan for us is everlasting. Adam just isn't the finished product.. We're all born of Adam but we can be perfected througn Christ a new construction.

  • edoedo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Once Adam screwed it up then we all stuck with it. So, that is why Jehovah God sent Jesus here.

    (John 3:16) “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.

    Oh one more thing... Jehovah wants someone perfect / clean then he can give all of us, so this is the reason why he sent Jesus because he is perfect.

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