It will take a lot of time for this answer,as well it takes us to another topic all together, got to get some sleep
GOD Bless you all
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1) Humanity was to work as God's stewards in the care and management of our world. We are to represent God, a priestly role. Whenever scripture mentions God clothing people it is always His priests. The Fall did not annul that role. God's covering of the couple had little to do with body shame as we know it, but was an act of great grace extended to humanity to continue with God's initial purposes for humanity.
2) Humanity was not created immortal.That was to come, symbolised by the tree of life. Jesus alone was to bring that to humanity. We don't know what death would be like in an unfallen world of course, but significantly different from what we experience now. That article does not follow this direction.
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Genesis: 1. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Ok figure this one out... before fall or after?
What we find, then, is that while impurity is not sinful, it is associated with things that were instituted after the Fall. That causes us to ask why sex is impure. I believe the natural answer is that sexual relations as we know them were instituted after the Fall- so that the first sex mentioned comes immediately after the fall, when Adam knows his wife in Genesis 4:1. This brings focus on St. Paul’s teaching that a man and his wife should agree to abstain from sexual relations for a short period of time in order to intensify prayer. As in Leviticus and Numbers, elevated states of holiness require abstention from sex.
What we find, then, is that there was no death before the fall, but there was a blessing that is analogous to death. The same, I believe, is true of sex. There was no sex before the Fall, but there was a proces analogous to sex.
I was recently thinking about adam and eve, and 2 very confusing things occurred to me about them.
1-Do you think they went to heaven or hell? They are the two people responsible for all the sin and problems going on in the world today.
2-This is a bit trickier of a question. If Adam and eve didnt sin, would the same souls exist right now or not? To be more specific, would WE exist right now?
Would we live with the same families we live with now, just in a utopia version of this world, if they didnt sin?
I dont know if the soul exists before birth, but I do know each soul alive now has a unique identity created by God. Adam and Eves sin caused sin and death, and the problems associated with it, to enter in this world. Its highly likely that if they didnt sin, since the world with be a utopic happy place, there would be no need for people to move around the world, and thus, many of the families who exist now (including many of our own) wouldnt exist, because the reasons our ancestors moved to where we live is because of the world being an imperfect place, as a result of adam and eves sin.
1=Yes
2=Yes
Most likely, there was less landmass covered by water, fewer (if any) deserts, and the mountains were shorter. And before the Fall, there were no weeds.
God always plans ahead. This was His first plan. He had a plan.
God always plans ahead. This was His first plan. He had a plan.
If the fall never happened then God had already got a way around your problem of over crowding. You can ask Him about it when you see Him.How does that answer my question?
How does that answer my question?
It doesn't. I've noticed too often people avoid answering difficult questions, or give an answer that would relate to a similar but different question, or answer another question from the same thread that's easier to answer.
I was recently thinking about adam and eve, and 2 very confusing things occurred to me about them.
1-Do you think they went to heaven or hell? They are the two people responsible for all the sin and problems going on in the world today.
2-This is a bit trickier of a question. If Adam and eve didnt sin, would the same souls exist right now or not? To be more specific, would WE exist right now?
Would we live with the same families we live with now, just in a utopia version of this world, if they didnt sin?
I dont know if the soul exists before birth, but I do know each soul alive now has a unique identity created by God. Adam and Eves sin caused sin and death, and the problems associated with it, to enter in this world. Its highly likely that if they didnt sin, since the world with be a utopic happy place, there would be no need for people to move around the world, and thus, many of the families who exist now (including many of our own) wouldnt exist, because the reasons our ancestors moved to where we live is because of the world being an imperfect place, as a result of adam and eves sin.
And who is to say how much of a sex drive Adam and Eve had. There is a big span they lived over 500 years, but how long was Eve furtile? This is before God numbered mankinds days to under 100 years.If the fall never happened then God had already got a way around your problem of over crowding. You can ask Him about it when you see Him.
And who is to say how much of a sex drive Adam and Eve had. There is a big span they lived over 500 years, but how long was Eve furtile? This is before God numbered mankinds days to under 100 years.
That happened after the Flood with the canopy changing. Do you agree?
If the fall never happened then God had already got a way around your problem of over crowding. You can ask Him about it when you see Him.
Or maybe He would have taken people as they were ready, and given them glorified bodies on a new earth.
Do you think this theory doesnt make sense?
Why did God tell Adam and Eve to fill the earth—if no one died, wouldn't the earth have become overpopulated?
Before the flood
Genesis: 6. 3. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 5. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Yes, Adam and Eve were immortal because death had not entered the World until the fall.Do you think people were originally meant to be immortal?
Yes, Adam and Eve were immortal because death had not entered the World until the fall.
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