Would it have been better for us to have remained in the garden of eden?

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From the Bible, this is a metaphor for the story of man upon this earth.

If you are strictly a creationist, you gotta know that "God created the world in 6 days..."
Well, one day could have been thousands of years, this, you must accept.
Rent "Inherit the Wind."
I blame this stuff on sanctimonious Bible Thumpers.
Save me, right.
My salvation is up to me, NOT YOU.
 
Possibly. But, considering that the "Garden of Eden" is a metaphor for the ignorance of the world from which humanity sprung, you wouldn't know the difference if we were still there.

You see, myths about the creation of humanity just aren't true. The Garden of Eden is no more material than the turtles upon which Hindu myth says the world is balanced on.

It might be comfortable for you to think about the world as having been created by an all-knowing, all-seeing "god" that has a definite plan and is keeping an eye on you. Heck, it'd be comfortable for me to think that too. But just because it's a comfortable security blanket doesn't make it real. Even though the alternative: that there is no god, and all of this is made up, and in reality we're just a function of our biological selves; even though this seems a bleak and depressing, that doesn't make it any less "true" than the idea that women were created from man's rib.

Think about it. All your life, you've been taught that there's this warm, peaceful being that has ultimate control over the universe, and probably taught as well that there are certain things that you can do to please this being, and certain things that you can do to anger this being.

Why do you believe that, other than because people generally seem to agree on it?
 
When God throws you out for being disobedient you don't get a say in the matter....LOL
 
Not according to Star Trek. Kirk and crew were always stumbling across various Gardens of Eden and seemed hell-bent on breaking up the party.

I like George Burns' take on the Garden of Eden in "Oh, God!", that He was too hard on Adam and Eve, that they were just kids, and if He had it to do over, He'd have let them off with a warning.
 
It wouldn't have been "us". It would've just been Adam and Eve, who would've eventually died out and then... null. They didn't have the knowledge to procreate until after they got kicked out of the garden.
 
better?... yes, of course!! ...free from sin, sickness, and all the problems, no death/condemnation, but most importantly, we'd see God! and be right with God. But it's only what I'm guessing. God allowed all this to happen. I don't know why, but He did. His ways are not our ways. God is God and I praise him for breaking me and molding me into his holiness thru Christ. Thank Christ for his awesome love & sacrifice on the cross!!!
 
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