(22-09-2024, 02:52 PM)grotesqueness Wrote: your conundrums can be easily be answered by one of these questions
why we are all here in our beginning
why you are here
what the purpose of your existent
these questions can answered most of our conundrums
you still need God to guild us all cause we all ate "the apple"
I get your drift. The Bible has the answers to many theological conundrums, such as our purpose on earth and 'why is there so much evil and suffering in the world.' But one thorny conundrum remains: why must I suffer for what Adam did? We'll go into that later.
In the beginning, God gave the First Couple freedom to enjoy the fruit of all the trees in the garden except one. Satan drew Eve's attention away from God's bountiful gifts and made her focus on God's single prohibition. The serpent claimed "God is trying to keep you from enjoying the one experience that would really make you happy. He doesn't want you to eat from the forbidden tree because He's afraid you'll become like Him."
Most unfortunately, Eve took the bait and the rest, as they say, is history. Just one little bite of forbidden fruit.. what's the big deal? one might ask. Everyone makes mistakes after all. This mistake, however, resulted in seismic consequences for the entire human race. It only takes a little sin to contaminate an entire life as Paul elaborates in Rom 5:12: "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned."
Adam's defiance of the Creator's clear command is described by Paul as the entry point of the sin virus that spread to the entire race. Because we're all descendants of the First Couple, we've all been infected with the destructive sin virus that separates us from God. You could in a sense say we all "ate the apple."
Adam and Eve were commanded by God to procreate and fill the earth with their offspring. Had they never sinned, perhaps the world today would be
populated with a race of sinless people living in perfect harmony. But Adam and Eve's sin in the garden marred God's beautiful plan. Lest we be too
hard on them, however, had any of us been in the garden instead of them, we probably would have done the same thing. Adam and Eve enjoyed ideal
conditions and perfect light and still sinned. We could have done no better.