Adam and Eve and the Apple

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I think it's part of God's plan. God knew they would obviously eat from the apple. It was part of his plan to give mankind the freedom to choose. Then, he sent Jesus to guide mankind to the path of God, so we can get to Heaven and such things. God gave us the freedom to either go with Jesus or not.

The problems with the interpretation depends on how you determine the properties of God.

Omnipresent, omniscient, omni-etc. Is he benevolent, non caring. Basically you'd have to answer Epicurus quote.

One thing that should be asked is as i said in a previous post "Why put the tree there in the first place?"... if he knew they were going to eat from it and he ALWAYS knew they would eat from it, "why put it there?", or for that matter if he knows everything, why not prevent the "devil/talking snake" from tricking Eve in the first place.

Actually when you give properties to God, like he's all knowing, there's a lot of "plot holes" that come up.

And can we keep this on topic please. I hate censorship as the next guy and the fact we already have to tip toe around/within religious based threads is annoying.