Why did God ...

[Aseyesee]

issue a commandment?

 

[“Paisios”]

He is sovereign. Why wouldn’t He issue commandments?

 

[Halbhh]

issue a commandment?

That we be more able to recognize Him as God -- He is righteous, the "Holy One" (Isa 30) -- but also that we know He is paying attention to what we do, and that here's what is right, for us to remember, as we make our free choices.

 

[Hall]

For the personnal spiritual well being of His people.

 

[Soyeong]

issue a commandment?

God had many purposes for giving the Mosaic Law, but providing the means of becoming justified through our own effort was never one of them. Among other purposes, Jesus said that justice, mercy, and faith are the weightier matters of the Law (Matthew 23:23), so a purpose for obeying the Law is learn about how to have justice, mercy, and faith. God said that what He commanded was for our own good (Deuteronomy 6:24, Deuteronomy 10:13), so obeying the Law is about growing in faith in God about how to rightly live. Jesus summarized the Law as being instructions for how to love God and our neighbor (Matthew 22:36-40) and said that if we love him, then we will obey his commands (John 14:15), so obedience to God is about growing in a relationship with Him based on faith and love. Jesus denied knowing people who were workers of Lawlessness (Matthew 7:23), we are told that no one who keeps on practicing Lawlessness has neither seen nor known him (1 John 3:6), and we are told that a relationship with Jesus is the goal of the Law for righteousness for everyone who believes (Romans 10:4), so obedience to the Law is again about growing in a relationship with Jesus. Paul said that the Law is holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), so it is about being trained by in grace how to act according to God's holiness, righteousness, and goodness (1 Peter 1:13-16, 1 John 3:4-10, Ephesians 2:10, Titus 2:11-14) and about reflecting those attributes to world (Isaiah 2:2-3, Isaiah 49:6). Paul said that the Law was given to make us conscious of sin (Romans 3:20) and that he wouldn't even know what sin was if it weren't for the Law (Romans 7:7), so a purpose of the Law is to teach us how to avoid sin, which is also something that we are told to do in the NT (Romans 6:15). Jesus was sinless, which means that he set a perfect example of how to walk in obedience to the Law, so obeying the Law is about following his example (1 Peter 2:21-22), about follow his commands and walking in the same way that he walked (1 John 2:3-6), about being his disciple (Matthew 28:16-20), about becoming obedient bondservants to the God that we serve (Romans 6:16, 1 Corinthians 7:22), about being set free from sin to become slaves of righteousness (Romans 6:17-18), and about no longer presenting our members as slaves of impurity and Lawlessness, but presenting our members as slaves of righteousness leading to sanctification (Romans 6:19). Obedience to the Law is about refraining from following Israel's example of disobedience (1 Corinthians 10:1-13), about working out our salvation (Philippians 2:12), about walking in freedom (Psalms 119:45, James 1:25), about delighting in God (Psalms 1:1-2, Romans 7:22), about being blessed (Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Psalms 119:1), about entering into life that is life (Matthew 19:17), about following the good way where we will find rest for our souls (Jeremiah 6:16-19, Matthew 11:28-30), about being redeemed from Lawlessness (Titus 2:14), about bringing reproof, correction, training in righteousness, and equipping us to do every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17), and about what we are to do because we have been justified (Ephesians 2:8-10), but it has never been about what we need to do in order to become justified.

 

[JIMINZ]

issue a commandment?

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Do you mean "Do not eat"?

 

[Aseyesee]

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Do you mean "Do not eat"?

Yes.

 

[Aseyesee]

He is sovereign. Why wouldn’t He issue commandments?

So just because he could?

 

[“Paisios”]

So just because he could?

If you are speaking of the original commandment in the Garden of Eden, I would say that He issued it (before the Fall) to give us the chance to truly love Him by obedience and submission to Him.

 

[Aseyesee]

If you are speaking of the original commandment in the Garden of Eden, I would say that He issued it (before the Fall) to give us the chance to truly love Him by obedience and submission to Him.

Was this a "lead us not into temptation"?

 

[dreadnought]

issue a commandment?

He issued commandments to keep us out of trouble. For instance, he knew that if we robbed a bank, we'd be thrown in prison for a long time, so he told us not to steal.

 

[Neostarwcc]

issue a commandment?

Are you referring to the commandment not to eat the forbidden fruit that God gave Adam and Eve in Genesis? Or are you referring to the ten commandments? It's unclear what you mean by commandment.

Anyway, if you mean the commandment in Genesis. God gave that commandment to warn man the consequences of the sin.

If you mean the ten commandments he gave us the ten commandments so we would learn to obey him and keep out of trouble. For example, he knew that if you killed somebody we would go to prison for the rest of our lives.

 

[Aseyesee]

He issued commandments to keep us out of trouble. For instance, he knew that if we robbed a bank, we'd be thrown in prison for a long time, so he told us not to steal.

How'd that work out ...

 

[Aseyesee]

Are you referring to the commandment not to eat the forbidden fruit that God gave Adam and Eve in Genesis? Or are you referring to the ten commandments? It's unclear what you mean by commandment.

Anyway, if you mean the commandment in Genesis. God gave that commandment to warn man the consequences of the sin.

If you mean the ten commandments he gave us the ten commandments so we would learn to obey him and keep out of trouble. For example, he knew that if you killed somebody we would go to prison for the rest of our lives.

Commandment, singular ... though the commandment was a double edged sword not unlike the tree that seemed to be at the heart of the issue; and the way back in ...

 

[PeaceJoyLove]

Hmmm....great question. Not sure this is really an answer to your question, but a possibility...In the beginning, God created man a pure, spiritual living being...living according to Spirit...no life of his own for God was all in all. It appears He wanted a helpmeet to love and and return that same love to Him. Adam was one who became two...and she was to desire only her husband...but what kind of love would that be...self loving self...
God obviously had a plan since the beginning for "Behold the lamb of God...slain before the foundation of the world." In the natural, man wants to be loved...needs to be loved...God created us that way. God, perhaps, wanted a counterpart that could return the same love to Him that He possessed...and she possessed.

Eve, being the picture of our soul, was his wife who was to be submissive to her husband in all things, not to observe with her own eyes (as she was supposed to ONE with Him) but remain subject to her soulmate. God gave Adam (while still alone) the command to not eat from the tree and Adam being God's image could not disobey Himself...So, when HE opened Adam's side, He separated spirit from soul...soul being outside of Himself, yet bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.

That part of Adam, his wife went out into the garden and was enticed /seduced into joining herself with the serpent of the dust (carnal spirit of the world) violating her union with her true soulmate (Christ)...she took a thought outside of the One she was WITH Adam...separate from him...and acted upon it...and Adam ate what she gave/prepared...never leaving or forsaking her, though she did forsake him...

And so begins the pursuit - wooing of the woman (our soul) to seeking to find her husband to love Him as much as HE loved/s her... and HE calling to her until her love turns (back) to Him...though HE has never left her...she must turn (back) to Him and His everlasting love...and the separation (divorce) no longer exists...we knowing what depths HIS love truly is for us...because it started as part of us, moved outside and moves inside (again)...

God wanted a courtship...a winning back of her love (our waking up to love that always was) when we were still ONE...separated from Him and become One, again...He who has the bride is the bridegroom...

 

[Aseyesee]

Hmmm....great question. Not sure this is really an answer to your question, but a possibility...In the beginning, God created man a pure, spiritual living being...living according to Spirit...no life of his own for God was all in all. It appears He wanted a helpmeet to love and and return that same love to Him. Adam was one who became two...and she was to desire only her husband...but what kind of love would that be...self loving self...
God obviously had a plan since the beginning for "Behold the lamb of God...slain before the foundation of the world." In the natural, man wants to be loved...needs to be loved...God created us that way. God, perhaps, wanted a counterpart that could return the same love to Him that He possessed...and she possessed.

Eve, being the picture of our soul, was his wife who was to be submissive to her husband in all things, not to observe with her own eyes (as she was supposed to ONE with Him) but remain subject to her soulmate. God gave Adam (while still alone) the command to not eat from the tree and Adam being God's image could not disobey Himself...So, when HE opened Adam's side, He separated spirit from soul...soul being outside of Himself, yet bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.

That part of Adam, his wife went out into the garden and was enticed /seduced into joining herself with the serpent of the dust (carnal spirit of the world) violating her union with her true soulmate (Christ)...she took a thought outside of the One she was WITH Adam...separate from him...and acted upon it...and Adam ate what she gave/prepared...never leaving or forsaking her, though she did forsake him...

And so begins the pursuit - wooing of the woman (our soul) to seeking to find her husband to love Him as much as HE loved/s her... and HE calling to her until her love turns (back) to Him...though HE has never left her...she must turn (back) to Him and His everlasting love...and the separation (divorce) no longer exists...we knowing what depths HIS love truly is for us...because it started as part of us, moved outside and moves inside (again)...

God wanted a courtship...a winning back of her love (our waking up to love that always was) when we were still ONE...separated from Him and become One, again...He who has the bride is the bridegroom...

Truth (as you know) is foremost relational to us, a word divides (light, dark, day one, day two) the commandment (word of God, word that was God) in a sense caused Adam (who named things, appearing to eat without consequence, like when Abraham laughed, as opposed to Sarah) masculine/spirit, feminine/soul truth) to fall into the deep sleep (part of the there and back again process, firstly within the confines of our own being), the soul reflecting the truth of this division under the guise of who a son sets free ...

You know this is endless, just as a word becomes two, becomes three, like droplets of water that form a river that flows into a garden.

The nuances of the kingdom are so varied, yet assemble themselves in the same manner they were split apart.

 

[PeaceJoyLove]

Truth (as you know) is foremost relational to us, a word divides (light, dark, day one, day two) the commandment (word of God, word that was God) in a sense caused Adam (who named things, appearing to eat without consequence, like when Abraham laughed, as opposed to Sarah) masculine/spirit, feminine/soul truth) to fall into the deep sleep (part of the there and back again process, firstly within the confines of our own being), the soul reflecting the truth of this division under the guise of who a son sets free ...

You know this is endless, just as a word becomes two, becomes three, like droplets of water that form a river that flows into a garden.

The nuances of the kingdom are so varied, yet assemble themselves in the same manner they were split apart.

Amazing plan He purposed in Himself...what God has joined together, let no man put asunder. So, while there appears to be two, not one, it is not the spirit that is seeing, though it be calling each of us out of our slumber (from within) yet, for a time we look without where there is no light, falling into a pit and wrestling serpents (which is a necessary thing in the process of soul) with darkness and shadows obscuring The Way. Til a turning of two eyes on a son on a cross and the light begins to overtake the darkness, blinding us that we might see and a door to heaven opens to infinite Truth of who we have always been...

 

[“Paisios”]

Was this a "lead us not into temptation"?

It seems to me that our first mother and father had the chance to resist temptation, and failed. Had they succeeded, it would have been a great victory and the whole history of human suffering would have been avoided. But it was necessary to have a real choice if God wanted children, not robots.

(But what do I know?)

 

[PeaceJoyLove]

How else could we truly come to knowing the depths of God's love and His glory that fills the whole earth if we did not experience the opposite side of the same coin...or observing from a different perspective/perception...or if we never saw anything else other than that...How could we know Light/Day if we never saw darkness/Night of the soul...or know how great HE is if we didn't first see how depraved carnal man is when in a state of not knowing Him...the soul wandering in the desert longs for that river that flows into the garden...how can one's thirst be quenched if he has never been thirsty? Oh to be so parched that three drops of water sets a fire to find more...until it overflows and the dry land (picture of our soul) becomes covered in streams...leading back...

 

[1213]

issue a commandment?

I believe the reason is that we would know what can lead to good life.