Homeless Joe Wrote:it's interesting how you imply that overcoming evil is part of how we were made. if i'm wrong let me know. but if we were made like that, is it possible that we were also made to commit evil acts? that we were designed to fall from grace? and in adam and eve, the apple represents knowledge, correct? but why would evil be knowledge? why would knowing, being aware of our own nakedness be evil our lead to evil? because we were no longer beasts? we had become aware? :confused: all really confusing stuff. i need to find a priest.
No, It's human nature to want to know all. Curiousity. And most humans choose evil because it's EASIER. Only selfless, understanding people will choose good. Only people who understand their true purpose choose good.
We weren't made to commit evil acts. God gave us the choice good or evil because he wanted to know for himself that we loved and respected his words so those that choose to listen to him, makes him know that we chose him not that we were just robots designed to choose him.
God didn't make us perfect for a reason. He doesn't want our genetic makeup to enforce ONLY good in us. He wants to know we love him over evil.
Evil is knowledge because you can KNOW what it feels like to be angry, sad, depressed, ect GOOD is knowledge as well because you KNOW what it feels like to be happy, loved, and so forth, god created us to know good, not evil, then he gave us the choice. The apple on the forbidden tree represents evil. We didn't know evil but wanted to. Now man didn't want to BE evil, he just wanted to know it because of curiousity and more knowledge. Try to think of the first man in this world he wouldn't know how much it would effect his life and his decisions, but he wanted more emotions in his life or more knowledge. Man was in a state of learning, that apple had answers to his questions. Remain ignorant and happy or gain knowledge and be miserable, man didn't know he would be miserable.
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