Why didn't God forgive Adam and Eve?

@Ferise1 it definitely puzzles the mind. The Bible is like a puzzle. A puzzle where all the pieces don't fit together. Or some of the pieces are missing.

@NewBecky Sins = picking up sticks on the sabbath, eating shellfish and tuna, wearing clothes of mixed fabrics. But it's not a sin to stone your children to death or to burn down an entire town and kill everything in it.

@Straylight

To pay the penalty of sin for us...

The penalty for sin is death...

Imagine a human judge adjudicating on a case.. The Law of the land stipulates fines for certain crimes.. This is to stop judges corruptly giving lesser fines to people they like and to stop them giving higher fines for people they may dislike.. So in this case the offender a car thief is found guilty of stealing and the burning the stolen car.. The standard fine for this offense has been established as $50,000 fine or 3 years in prison.. The offender is remorseful for their offense and has confessed to the crime.. The offender being a young poor man cannot gather the required $50,000 dollars.. This means the judge must impose a 3 year prison sentence. But the judge knows this young man is a good looking guy and knows what will happen to him in a prison environment. The judge wants to save him from that kind of trauma..

So the judge first imposes the $50,000 fine and then steps down from the bench and approaches the young man with a check for $50,000 dollars and offers it to the young man as a gift so He can pay his fine in full.. The offender happily accepts the gift and the fine is paid and the man walks away with his freedom and no one can accuse the judge of corruption because the stipulated fine has been paid in full by the offender..

That is an analogy of what the LORD ( Judge ) has done through the Atonement of the LORD Jesus Christ for all sinners who accept they are guilty of sin and are accepting of the gift of the Atonement that pays the death penalty their sins deserve..

@Adstar Ok, I think I’m getting it. Basically the price of sin was so great that we could never atone for it, so God paid it for us as a sign of forgiveness?

@Straylight Yes.. The Way to salvation for human beings is to be justly foirgiven the things that make us unworthy of salvation.. Not by vainly striving to attain perfection to purchace our own salvation.. Thats the difference between recieving it as a gift, not trying to buy it..

@kodiac sounds disturbing

@NortiusMaximus My thoughts exactly! XD

@NortiusMaximus Genesis 2:16-17 proves you are wrong. They knew it would cost them their life if they disobeyed. Eve definitely knew it would be wrong to disobey God's expressed will for her and her husband when she stated the words at Genesis 3:2-3. The perfect couple, Adam and Eve, were given or created with a free will. They weren't created to be robotic. They could either make the right choice and live or choose to disobey and die. Also, God chose not to know their activity before they sinned; afterall, they were given perfect conditions to live under so there was no need to gauge their activity or foresee what would happen before they sinned.

@seotelkniwt LOL! Quotes from a book of fairy stories don't prove anything.

@SpiritualMan You keep forgetting that man is just as smart about good and evil as the God character is. And it says that people will judge angels. Therefore, man has enough knowledge to judge the God character and right now God is a failure.

@SpiritualMan
The fairytale says that man knowledge of good and evil is equal to God's and that man will judge angels. So, I'm judging God and declaring him a sick lunatic as he is depicted in the biblical fairytale. If he is real I would gladly jump into the lake of fire rather than spend eternity with him.

@anythingoes477 letting them live with a punishment? Like their grand-grand -grand-grand-grand-grandchildren living in the same world as a person getting tortured and killed?

If that didn't teach them a lesson, I don't know what would. 🙄

@Jackaloftheazuresand God created us knowing everything. God created us knowing that we would sin. What purpose is there in knowing when is it used to condemn that which he created?

@James25 Because forced perfection is imperfection

@Jackaloftheazuresand an imperfect person that forces another imperfect person or expects another imperfect person to be perfect is truly crazy, and yes it's an imperfect act because the one doing the forcing cannot meet up to the expectations of his/her own expectations of perfection and that of others. Did I confuse you? 😆🤣

@seotelkniwt We will be ruling with God.

@seotelkniwt "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." Rev 20:4

@Carazaa When did the heads get their bodies back? Or did the heads just sit on a table for a thousand years?

@James25 Since when are you and I able to have a logical thought? The point is that the Creator designed the creation exactly as He decided. We are His creation and thus are incapable of understanding the goals of the Creator. We don't know the hour of our birth or our death. We start out having no control over our bladder or our bowels and should we live long enough we will have no control over our bladder or our bowels. As it is written:

@hippyjoe1955 and who is God not to listen to my questions and who is God that he would not allow me to question

@James25 You can question all you want. That doesn't mean you are going to get the answer you want.Just as it is written:

@seotelkniwt Thats true seotelkniwt.. I wonder why you made this reply?

@Ferise1 ????

@th3r0n
That's the definition of one sick character.

@Diotrephes atheists do usually find justice sick

@James25 that’s why Jesus died….. for all of our sims to be forgiven 🤦‍♀️ the people who died before Jesus Christs coming could not accurately be held accountable for their sins

@DeluxedEdition if Adam and Eve could not be held accountable for their sins then why did God punish them?

@James25 they could not be sent to hell for sinning when there isn't a specific outline of rules to follow. Which is why in the old testament they are given the mosiac law because jesus didn't yet come to give anyone an outline to follow

he punished them because he specifically told NOT to do something that they did. In this instance, he did give them a guideline. That's why they were punished.

@SpiritualMan If there is a lake of fire, Abraham needs to be tossed into it.

@SpiritualMan According to the fairytale =
John 3:13 (ERV) = "The only one who has ever gone up to heaven is the one who came down from heaven—the Son of Man."