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Lv 6

Why did God Destroy Adam and Eve?

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  • 3 months ago
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    No the Bible did not say God destroyed them.  The account says:  Adam, sinned, God told him that his punishment would simply be to pass out of existence: “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” Genesis 3:​19  Also, Adam had two possibilities set before him, one of eternal life on earth, and the other of eternal death in the dust of the ground.

    Adam did not plan his sin. The Bible shows that. The Great Tempter, a fallen angel of the invisible heavens, was the one who prevailed upon Adam to sin. First, by deception, he misled Eve, Adam’s wife, into transgression. Then by means of the now sinful Eve, the Tempter that is the Devil, induced Adam to transgress, joining his wife Eve in sin and consenting to her sin. When Adam stood before the Supreme Judge to answer for his sin Adam said: “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree and so I ate it.” Gen. 3:12.  Adam being created in God’s image and according to God’s likeness, was intelligent enough to know that he was sinning against the plainly stated law of God. He was willful when he sinned against God. Would you like to learn more about the Bible or about Jehovah’s Witnesses? If so, request a visit from one of Jehovah’s Witnesses by completing the form a Witness in your area will contact you. Please watch the video.  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/request-a... Coronavirus (COVID-19) Alert: In many areas, we have suspended our in-person visits and public meetings. Please include your telephone number when you complete the form and a Witness in your area will contact you.

    Source(s): jw.org
  • Tim
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    Quite the contrary..  Adam and Eve destroyed themselves by crucifying the word of God to the tree when they ate of the fruit.  Instead God clothed them and made a promise of the coming of the Redeemer.  

  • Rjgmh
    Lv 5
    3 months ago

    God did not destroy adam and Eve. They still exist. Either in Heaven, believing God for His fix, which God promised to bring, or in Hell rejecting God. But they still exist.

  • 3 months ago

    because you say so

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  • 3 months ago

    4 As a reminder of man’s dependence on his Creator and Life-Giver, Jehovah laid this command on him: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. 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.” (Gen. 2:16, 17) Did that law deprive man of freedom? Certainly not. Adam was free to obey or to disobey. The prohibition imposed no burden. He had an abundance to eat without touching that one tree. However, it was only fitting that he recognize that the earth on which he lived belongs to God and that, as the Creator, God is the rightful Ruler of his creation.—Ps. 24:1, 10.

    5 But what happened? Motivated by selfish ambition, an angel deceived Eve by posing as a true guide, assuring her of something contrary to God’s will. Rather than obeying his Father, Adam joined Eve in transgression. By grasping for something that did not belong to them, Adam and Eve lost the glorious freedom that they had. Sin became their master and, as God had warned, death positively awaited them. As a result, what inheritance was passed on to their offspring? Sin, manifest in an inborn tendency toward wrongdoing, in weaknesses that make one susceptible to disease and in eventual deterioration through aging. Also death. The inherited inclination toward wrongdoing, aggravated by Satanic influence, has produced a society in which life has become precarious for everyone. What a contrast to the freedom that God gave mankind at the beginning!—Rom. 5:12; Job 14:1; Rev. 12:9.   For more information JW.ORG

  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    Adam and Eve disobeyed Jehovah God and Obeyed Satan the Devil. Genesis 3

    Adams and Eve's Punishment:

    Genesis 3:17 And to Adam he said: “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. 18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return

        Genesis 5:5    So all the days of Adam’s life amounted to 930 years, and then he died.

    John 8:44 You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a murderer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie.( Job 1,2; Luke 4)

    God's command:

    “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 certainly die.” (Genesis 2:17)

    Today and Future: 1 Corinthians 6:9,10; Ephesians 5:3-5; Psalm 37:9-11,29,34

    Source(s): The Bible Speaks/Jehovah Wol.jw.org
  • 3 months ago

    He didn't destroy them

  • 3 months ago

    'God' didn't 'destroy' Adam and Eve - he just put them in a garden with a tree and told  them not to eat the fruit of it, then got mad when they did.

    It's the equivalent of putting a kid in a room with a cake and saying 'don't eat that' (and then letting an older sibling into the room to tell them 'go ahead and eat it'), then coming back in later to a kid with frosting all over their face and saying 'why did you eat that?'

    The whole 'Adam and Eve' story was just an attempt by the writer(s) of the bible to rectify the supposed existence of a 'perfect god' who would only be capable of 'perfect creation' with a demonstrably 'imperfect' human race.

    Basically, it couldn't have been 'his' fault, so it had to be ours.

    The idea that it described literal events is beyond ridiculous.

  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    *God* creates universes at a time so that life can flourish. 

     Only the "christian" god in the bible kills people.  

  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    🥴 He didnt. They survived and bore children. 

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