The Garden of Eden

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While we don’t need the devil to make our own wrong choice’s, we believe he exists don’t we?

So why does he exist?
 
simpleas said:
While we don’t need the devil to make our own wrong choice’s, we believe he exists don’t we?

So why does he exist?
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He’s not any bigger than we allow him to be.** “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”** James 4:7
We can* all* play either God or satan in this world; we can all be the hands of either one. We can also tempt each other to do evil -or help make the world better.
 
mikekle said:
What makes you think Adam did not call out to God often? I imagine adam and eve both called out to God quite a bit, but the difference between us and them is, God answered them directly, they did not need faith…they KNEW
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Because I am a firm believer that when faced with temptation and you call on God he will save you.

I agree with what was Originally Posted by fhansen
"either way, Adam & Eve were in a sort of neutral state, “walking with” God but not yet having come to recognize their need for Him, let alone to love Him."

Adam didn’t have a loving relationship with God, otherwise he would have called on Him.
 
Ed_Silvia said:
I trust in God but unlike Adam I call out to Him many times a day. “Lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil”
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Me too.
But we only know this now through divine revelation.
Adam was in a different time.
 
tonyrey said:
It is impossible for us not to be tempted if we are genuinely free. Our power alone is a source of temptation even on a desert island!
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If that is the case then why did the angels sinned? They were free and no one tempted them. True freedom in my books is to do what is correct and right. I would think that your question implies that temptation is an opportunity for us to reveal our faithfulness towards God and that is very true. But you forget there is also power in the redemption of Christ meaning that if I fall I have also a redeemer as well to rely on. That is true power.
 
Maybe they had knowledge we didn’t.
In the garden, we apparently had not known about good and evil.
All we had to do was trust in God and follow His direction.
The devil, knowing good and evil let us in on the possibility of lies and the extent of our freedom.
Listening to Satan we were beginning to learn that there could be something other than good and that we too could be “more” than the good God created.
The action made real the decision.
 
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