Why didn't God forgive Adam and Eve?

If God sent his only son to die on the cross for the Forgiveness of our sins, then why didn't God just forgive Adam and Eve? And save himself the trouble of having his son die on the cross.

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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

Before they ate of the forbidden fruit they were warned that eating that fruit would be fatal. What should God have done? Kept His word (eating is fatal) or say "Just Kidding!"

James25 · 61-69, M

@hippyjoe1955 if God is perfect and all knowing he would have known already that Adam and Eve would eat of the tree of knowledge. Why did God create Adam and Eve knowing that they would disobey him and then punish them for it?

When Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of knowledge they realize that they were naked and were ashamed and covered themselves. Why would they be ashamed of being naked?

James25 · 61-69, M

@hippyjoe1955 since when are serpents able to speak? A serpent is a large snake they already crawl on their bellies upon the ground. How is it that God punished the serpent by making him crawl on his belly?

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@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:

But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”

James25 · 61-69, M

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

hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M

@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:

“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses,

“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,

and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”