Hello frens. I have questions for all here who would like to participate and share their views, opinions. Essentially we are doing what the ancient schools of thought did in the ancient times.
Question: Did Adam and Eve have free will prior to eating from the tree of knowledge?
Question: Was Eden a paradise prison, where mankind was free to roam but not question anything, and not know anything outside of what was fed to them by Yaweh?
Question: Does knowledge of good and evil give us cause and affect, choice, and as a result free will to follow a negative path or a positive path with each decision we make during our lifetime here?
Question: What would be the benefit of giving the soul on Earth the ability to chose good or evil? Why was that not given to Adam and Eve from the start?
Question: Was Jesus Christ talking about Yaweh when he mentions the creator his father? Why Does Jesus present a version of the creator much differently than what the book of Genesis describes? Why did Jesus never call his father by the name of Yaweh in the gospel?
I look forward to each response from all of you. Thank you.
This is a good book on the subject. Thoroughly researched.
The Shining Ones by Christian and Barbara Joy O'Brien
https://archive.org/details/kupdf.net_the-shining-ones/mode/1up
As for Jesus and the creator.
https://youtu.be/z899SKJ8WEc
The book is called God-Man: The Word Made Flesh by Carey, George W.
https://archive.org/details/godmanwordmadefl00carerich/mode/1up
I encourage you to post this over at c/Christianity
Awesome powerful questions!! I will give my best answer in less than 5 words… “God’s Will Be Done”
You're missing a H in YHWH
great questions/I wonder about such things too.
Thank you for you sincere response. I enjoyed reading it. I would like to point out, that by the introduction of good and evil, our souls are able to evolve and take the paths of positive or negative. It seems that before this took place in eden, humans were just pets in a comfortable pretty cage. Again, if this is indeed true, have we been lied to about the role of Lucifer in all of this? In the book of Enoch Lucifer is allowed to be in the heavenly court, vs the notion that Lucifer was a fallen angle never allowed to return home. Enoch is not accepted as cannon now, but for a while, it was cannon and part of the Bible.
you're welcome/glad it made sense:) and yes I've thought about that too; if we've misunderstood some of the characters in God's story... there's always been 'fake news' so maybe we're not being told the truth about the real enemies. Thomas Jefferson even cut apart pages from the Bible because he thought it was obfuscated/not getting to the truth of Jesus.
and will have to go back and listen to Enoch again. I remember a good link was posted by George News awhile back, got me thinking how it might be relevant. Also, gnostics believe 'knowing' is important, and remember Q said "those who know can't sleep'...
If you have no choice, knowledge of the outcome or that there is even another path, then you have no free will in my opinion. If man didn’t know how to sin, or chose negative polarity over good, then he was not free. Choice, being able to know the other side is what makes us have that free will.