Is Jehovah a self-inconsistent creator for both making Adam and Eve free and forbidding them to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ?
God is never self-inconsistent in any way.Just "No" without an explanation is an incomplete answer. Explain.
God is never self-inconsistent in any way.
I am genuinely seeking feedback to my question, from Christians steeped in scripture. Do you possibly have, for the sake of my inquiry into the most common and fundamental of all questions set forth by men, regarding man's free will and Jehovah's injunction against eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, any scriptural wisdom which will support your explanation of the plain "No" response ?
You have a good question, so long as you are not rebelling against God, because we need to know what it means to be free, and because God said to them that something should not be done. Do you mean free to do whatever you want to do? Or are you asking about Christian free will? It certainly makes sense that we should obey God.Is Jehovah a self-inconsistent creator for both making Adam and Eve free and forbidding them to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ?
let me turn it back on you
why do you think this illustrates inconsistency?
what would a "consistent" God do differently, in your opinion?
You have a good question, so long as you are not rebelling against God, because we need to know what it means to be free, and because God said to them that something should not be done. Do you mean free to do whatever you want to do? Or are you asking about Christian free will? It certainly makes sense that we should obey God.
I could just say free will, but I am a Christian and this is a Christian website, and I have said before that I am Jewish. Do you have any concept of free will or freewill?I have never heard of Christian free will. I would like to know what is meant by Christian free will.
If it was an apple, yes.Yes, by free I mean free to do what I choose to do, purely only by my own choice. Eve, by picking and biting the apple, did what she wanted to do, in an whatever fashion, and, she got herself banned from the garden of Eden.
I don't see the word forbidden, but I understand the point that God would not and did not allow them to pick the fruit and eat it. He commanded against their eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Are you familiar with the passage? Do you remember what God said, what Adam and Eve said, and what the serpent said?I am wondering why Jehovah made Adam and Eve free, and, then, forbad them the particular free act of gaining knowledge of good and evil. Was the preservation of innocence the reason Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat of the tree's fruit ? Did Jehovah plan to keep humans innocent and therefore non-harmful ? That would have been nice; but it did not remain the case; all because of gaining knowledge; knowledge like their realization of their nakedness; wow, nakedness became something to be ashamed of, whereas before they innocently did not experience shame because of their undress. It is such a beautiful tragedy. If Jehovah is never inconsistent, why does he make himself to appear inconsistent by making freedom and forbidding the free act of eating the forbidden fruit ?
No,I don't remember exactly. Did Jehovah say "Thou shalt not eat of..." ?
Genesis 2:16-17 NASB - The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." |
I can find it for you, what Yahveh said.
Genesis 2:16-17 NASB - The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."
and so i'm left with a scenario where Adam and Eve act contrary to God's will, whether it is in disobedience to His direction, or whether it is in disobedience to their knowledge of good and evil
Maybe. I have heard spiritual death.What ilk of death was the Lord referring to ? Death to innocence ?
God is never self-inconsistent in any way.
The is nothing "apparently contradictory" about that. Your theory is bogus from the start.When He both created Adam and Eve with personal freedom and then set a prohibition against the exercise of that freedom, He enacted an apparent contradictory and inconsistent stance.