Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ph600fev@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Robert O'Barr) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Adam and Eve have become as Gods? Message-ID: Date: 14 Apr 91 02:12:42 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 32 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) writes: > >I cannot understand, however, why some people think the fall was necessary. >Why is a case where the Son of God is forced to die superior to the case >where man has not fallen and no redeemer is necessary? Nothing has convinced >me that God ever intended us to know evil. I would have been happy with >just knowing good. > Because of the plan of salvation, we have the hope that one day we will see Jesus when he comes and we will be like him. You express that you would have been happy with just the good. You might consider this. God and his Son Jesus Christ are perfect. They do have knowledge of good *and* knowledge of evil. Ponder the words of God in Genises. "The man has become as one of us, knowing good from evil" I myself can't comprehend what it would mean to know the good and be ignorant of what is evil. How could you make sure you were doing good when you didn't know the diffence between good and evil? Christ being perfect had a complete knowledge of good and evil. He understood all of Satan's tactics when he came to tempt him in the wilderness. Knowing good without knowing evil is like knowing what light looks like without knowing what dark is. It is impossible. Let it be clear that I don't equate knowledge of evil with being, thinking or acting evil! The Son of God was foreordained even before the foundation of the earth (before adam and eve) to come to earth to offer himself as a sacrifice for sin (see 1? Peter 1). This is/was the one and only plan of God; It was not a substitute plan latter added because somehow his original perfect plan was somehow scuttled by man. Robert