collinsEFF:
Hello �,
I was just thinking of this,
If God is a merciful God then why didn't he have mercy on Adam and Eve?
I need answers...

collinsEFF:
Hello �,
I was just thinking of this,
If God is a merciful God then why didn't he have mercy on Adam and Eve?
I need answers...

viyon02:
They are both perfect being and they had the ability to resist the temptation.

viyon02:
They are both perfect being and they had the ability to resist the temptation.

WorstWanderland:

nobody is perfect

Kobojunkiee:
That is a lie told by men to deceive their fellow man.

You were told of many righteous men in the same Bible, perfect men, who walked with God, some even from their youth!.

WorstWanderland:

Sure!

Kobojunkiee:
Think carefully about it. You are told by God that you have to be Holy/Perfect for His purpose and this He tells His servants and those who go on to becoming perfect are then used by Him to doing works of Righteousness, works that please Him, God.

So when you hear, "it is impossible to be perfect/holy", do you think that message comes from God or from the deceitful tongues of men?

Be You Perfect Even As The Lord Thy God Is Perfect

WorstWanderland:

Surely From Men Not God.
I Remember A Passage That Says:

WorstWanderland:

nobody is perfect

WorstWanderland:

nobody is perfect

Kobojunkiee:
So, what did you mean by the post....

viyon02:
point of correction, Adam and Eve are both perfect. Imperfection came in when they sin again God.

Ihedinobi3:


Hi there.

I'm not sure what answers you need since you appear to have given yourself one already.

I have not read any part of the Bible that teaches or even suggests that God might not have forgiven Adam and Eve.

In fact, God not only promised them and their children a Savior (the very one He later gave us in Jesus Christ), but He also made the first animal sacrifice for them in the Garden of Eden to show them how anyone who wanted to be saved from the Second Death that is due to all rebels against God can be saved. And they accepted that sacrifice themselves and were thus saved by it.

15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
Genesis 3:15 (NASB)

21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:21 (NASB)

I would say that God went above and beyond in mercy in this matter. What was due to Adam and Eve was death in all its ramifications: that is, alienation from God plus the end of their physical lives and every opportunity to choose again what their attitude to God should be plus the Second Death, eternal punishment for their rebellion against God.

But that is not what they suffered. They were driven from Eden and condemned to a less than perfect physical existence. But they were kept alive to continue making choices about God and to teach their children to do the same. They were even reconciled to God through the Promise and the Hope that the sacrifice in the Garden symbolized. And we have no reason in the Bible to believe that they are not with God right now in eternity.

So, you might need to explain where you got the idea that God did not have mercy on them.

Cheers.

2dominate:

All this punishment just for eating from what they were forbidden from

Ihedinobi3:


Hello.

All what punishment, please? I don't understand your response.

2dominate:

The eternal punishment of Genesis 3 : 16- 19

Ihedinobi3:


16 To the woman He said:
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
In pain you shall bring forth children;
Your desire shall be for your husband,
And he shall rule over you.”
17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:16-19 (NKJV)

There's the passage. I'm afraid I don't see this eternal punishment you speak of. Which part of it do you mean?

collinsEFF:
Hello �,
I was just thinking of this,
If God is a merciful God then why didn't he have mercy on Adam and Eve?
I need answers...

2dominate:

I believe these were the punishment meted out to Adam and Eve according to the bible's claim for disobedience

Ihedinobi3:


It was that punishment listed out in those verses that you referred to as eternal? Sorry, do you know what the word, eternal, means?

2dominate:

To the best of my knowledge the word eternal can also be used for something that covers a lengthy period of time

collinsEFF:

Hello �,
I was just thinking of this,
If God is a merciful God then why didn't he have mercy on Adam and Eve?
I need answers...

2dominate:
According to the aforementioned verse I believe that the punishment was not just, extremely severe, because the progeny of Adam and Eve up till date are still suffering the consequences of Adam and Eve's sin.

viyon02:
point of correction, Adam and Eve are both perfect. Imperfection came in when they sin again God.

Kobojunkiee:
But Abel, their son, was perfect in the eyes of God. So also were Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Job etc.