Is the Fall a Good Thing

[Godscreated]

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It's crazy how so mean people see this story as more than it is, the story starts out with God's love for man and all He wanted was for man to love Him. To show that love it was to come through obedience. God walked with them through the garden every evening, they understood that God expected them to obey this one simple rule through the free will He gave them. They lived in a harmonious and loving relationship until Adam and Eve messed up. God knew what they had done the minute they disobeyed, yet when He came to them He was not raging as many seem to believe. God called out to them as a father to His children, asking where they were, even though He knew. Up until this point the relationship was based on absolute love, then the fall and the end ie. death of a perfect loving relationship.

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Maybe its me but what's crazy is that this doesn't strike you as utterly weird, storywise.

I see this as a story of love because that's what it is, to me it's weird others do not see it that way, of coarse others have their agenda to try and destroy something they have no understanding of.

We have God - all powerful, knowing etc. etc. wants a playmate that doesn't understand good from bad but will obey his every command without question or hesitation so that the dumbass playmate can earn God's "love."

God's love is unconditional, anyone who can't see that knows nothing about what scriptures say. Obedience is our way of showing our love for God. They understood that there was a consequence for disobedience and they were not playmates, if that's what God wanted He would have made them like robots that couldn't cause Him hurt, easy to understand really.

This love lasts precisely as long as the total obedience lasts the second the "child" commits a single infraction he chucks them out.

Really, He could have simply destroyed them and made new ones, and He would have if He were who you say He is, since He didn't that must mean your ideas about God are wrong.

Why are Christians unable to tell the difference between a perfect loving relationship and the total obedience demanded of a slave from his master?

Oh, we can, it's the nonbelievers who can't see the love of God, they do not have enough sense to experience His love.

GC