Questions tagged [eden]
Eden is either the garden mentioned in Genesis or the time period and state of being before the fall.
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How do we know the serpent did not act on his own to deceive Adam and Eve?
Since there isn't any text that clearly points to the spirit of Satan possessing the serpent so that he would lie to Adam and Eve and cause them to eat from the forbidden fruit, is it a possibility ...
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Overview: which denominations teach that the trees in Eden were symbolic vs literal?
In a comment to another question, someone commented that the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil are "clearly" symbolic and not actual trees. I was surprised by that ...
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Is Paradise of God the Garden of Eden?
I am trying to figure out if the paradise mentioned by Jesus several times in scripture is the same garden that Adam and Eve lived in till they were sent out. The first mention of this paradise is the ...
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What are the arguments in favor of the proposition that it was man's spirit that died in the Garden of Eden?
Genesis 2:7 states the warning given to Adam that if he disobeyed God’s command, he would surely die. Since God spoke with him after he sinned, obviously his body didn’t die. I’m looking for clarity.
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How did Satan get into Eden?
There is general agreement that Satan had already rebelled when Eden was created and that Eve sinned just a few hours/days after creation. Are there any hypotheses about how satan got into Eden ...
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How long did Adam stay in Eden?
Are there hints in the Bible or are there any hypotheses about the period of time Adam and Eve sojourned in Eden after their creation?
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Did Adam need to tend the Garden of Eden because the biocycle a sinful process?
When Adam was created, there was no sin in this world. We are told that the wages of sin are death. My assumption therefore would be that prior to sin, nothing died.
So this leads me to a bit of a ...
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Would the Serpent (Satan) have dwelled eternally on earth if the fruit was not bitten?
After Lucifer and the fallen angels were hurled away from Heaven and landed on Earth instead of hell, because Earth was once paradise before the fall of man and Satan and his demons were sent there, ...
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According to the Bible where exactly did God create Adam?
Where did God create Adam according to scripture?
Is this in the garden or somewhere else according to scripture.
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According to Catholicism and Revelation are we going to be able to eat meat in Heaven or the Garden of Eden?
Will be able to eat meat or will we be like Adam and Eve eating a non-meat based diet in heaven or the Garden of Eden?
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Why is the "serpent" in the Fall believed to be literal by many?
We know there is only suppositions that Satan was probably the "snake", but nothing solid proves this. However many times, even today, we say "that bitch slapped me", or that "dirty rat" hit me on ...
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From a Catholic perspective, did Adam's body undergo any change after the fall?
From a Catholic perspective, did Adam's body undergo any change after the fall?
Probably there is no hint in the Scripture, but I wonder if the problem has ever been raised by Catholic commentators.
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What animals were in Eden? [closed]
Is there any mention of actually what animals were in Eden? Is any mentioned beside the serpent? Is there any mention of what animals were eaten, if any?
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Where does Augustine say that Adam and Eve were in Eden for just six hours before sinning?
In Calvin's Commentary on Genesis, he spends some time dealing with the question of how long Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden together before they sinned. He writes:
The opinion has been ...
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How did the tree of life in the Garden of Eden serve its purpose? (Roman Catholic perspective)
In Genesis 2:9 (RSVCE) we read:
And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the ...
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According to Augustine, what's the difference between regenerate life and that before the fall?
In Augustine's four stages of the Christian life, is the Reborn Man in the same state as the Pre-Fall Man?
In which state was Christ the man while on earth?
[Editor's note: OP refers to the 4 stages ...
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LDS teaching about man being able to become God, and the snake telling Eve that she can become "like God"
According to the LDS Doctrine of Exaltation that is asked about in other questions (such as this one), a human can eventually become a God.
What is the Mormon teaching about the events described in ...
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According to Catholics were Adam and Eve aware that they possessed immortal souls before Satan told Eve that she would not die?
Eve's comment to Satan in Eden seems to indicate that she and Adam believed that eating of the forbidden tree would result in absolute death.
They likely had witnessed the death of animals and would ...
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What is the Biblical basis that it was was the second person of the Trinity that walked in the garden of Eden?
Genesis 3:8 tells us:
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was
walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the
Lord God among the trees of the ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that Satan was the serpent in the Garden of Eden?
This seems to be the generally accepted belief, and it's taught to children in Sunday School in many churches, but is there biblical basis for it? Here's the actual text:
1 Now the serpent was more ...
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Was Cain a descendant of the serpent, through Eve?
In an article by Ben Heath titled Sex Affair in the Garden of Eden, he claims that the sin for which God expelled Adam and Eve from the garden was sexual intercourse with the serpent.
Heath goes on ...
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Is the tree of "knowledge of good and evil" the same as the "tree of life"?
Is there one off-limits tree in the Garden of Eden or two? Genesis speaks of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:17) and then later talks of the tree of life (Genesis 3:22). Are they the ...
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Joel 2: From Eden to Ruination? To what is this referring?
Joel Chapter 2:1-2.
1 Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming. It is close at hand— 2 ...
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Did Adam and Eve have children in paradise? [closed]
I was just reading the account of Adam and Eve in the NIV 84 and it doesn't really say they didn't.
The Bible does mention when Sarah had her first boy. When Mary had her first son. But not really ...
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How did Adam and Eve win at Hide and Seek? [closed]
I began reading the KJV a couple months ago, and one question that keeps plaguing my mind is, "How did Adam and Eve successfully hide from God?"
Genesis Chapter 3:
8 And they heard the voice of ...
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Why didn't Adam and Eve die when they ate the fruit? [duplicate]
God gave Adam and Eve the following command, followed by a cause
Genesis 2:17- But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest ...
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Before the fall of Adam, did anything die? [closed]
This seems like a simple question, but I cannot find a clear answer. The book of Genesis (1:29,30), implies that Adam just ate "plants and herbs". So I think it is safe to assume animals were not ...
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How about the outside of the Garden of Eden? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
From where did Cain get his wife?
Indirectly, even for a beginner it's clear that outside the Garden of Eden some people lived. One may find more things about this in the ...
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In which region of earth is the Garden of Eden located?
Genesis 2:15(NIV)
The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it
and take care of it.
I'm curious to know, now, in which which country is the Garden of Eden located? (...
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Is it known whether Adam and Eve had the ability to experience physical pain before the fall? [closed]
Did Adam and Eve have the ability to experience physical pain before the fall? It seems that there is no indication in Genesis of physical pain in the Garden of Eden.
Is this issue mentioned anywhere ...
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Was the fall of man inevitable? [closed]
Given that:
Life of man continued in eternity in Eden
During this time the tree of knowledge was present
At any given point in time, man had the free will to make the choice: I will eat the forbidden ...
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Why did God need to plant the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden in the first place? [closed]
Why did God need to plant the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden in the first place?
I mean Mormons say that God was in fact having a hidden desire for Adam and Eve to disobey ...
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Why did God make it a sin to eat an apple?
Eating a fruit* is not even a real wicked deed like killing somebody or something. Why did this whole sin thing get started with something so innocuous that by today's standard it wouldn't even be ...
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