What does it mean that Adam was made from the dust of the ground? I take it that Adam had a mother and father. The mother ate from the garden food or the dust of the ground and bore Adam. Then Adam's physical parents returned to their world somewhere in the vast space of the Universe. Eve as well was born in the garden and her parents left to their world. I'm sure there is much more involved. Or, perhaps God took the DNA and cells of Adam and created Eve. All speculation on how the process happened to have Adam and Eve in the garden together.
They were commanded not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But, they were also commanded to multiply and fill the earth with humans. What isn't often spoke about is that God did all this spiritually first, including creating spirit children that would inhabit the physical bodies of humans on earth starting with Adam and Eve. Adam rejected Satan's attempts to eat of the fruit of that tree. But, Eve also being a woman knew that it was her position in life to be a co-creator of humans with God. That, the way to receive the knowledge to do so would only come by eating of the fruit of the tree. So, she kept one of the commandments by eating the fruit. Adam, knew that he would be left a lone man in the garden and had to partake so that mankind would become a reality.
So, they kept one commandment and transgressed the other commandment. They did not do this out of evil intent. That is the difference between transgressed the commandment and sinning against the commandment. As a fallen man and woman, at that point, they had the knowledge of good and evil with the right to choose with consequences. This was the plan of Salvation for all of those children of God who were created spiritually or spirit children. Our spirits were there in the pre-mortal life waiting for the time in which we could come to the earth to receive a body and start a possible progression to come back into the presence of our Father in Heaven. Currently, we have suffered a spiritual death or separation from Father in Heaven. If we progress in the knowledge of good and evil and have our ordinances performed for us, we can over come this spiritual death and return to Heaven and live with our Father in Heaven through the resurrection that Jesus Christ lead with in His atoning sacrifice.
Eve was not innocent. But, she had not sinned yet either. Once they were subject to the earth, then they could reject good and sin. Lucifer and a third of the spirit children of Heavenly Father rebelled and were banished from heaven to the earth never to receive a body and therefore will not be able to progress and return to Father in Heaven. Lucifer is Satan and he and his devils are here to try and test us to see if we will choose good over evil. And, when we sin, a Savior was provided for us so if we repent we can have those sins washed away and continue to progress.
Why are you choosing to sin to be saved instead of doing the moral and proper thing?
On Jesus dying for Christians. Try to think in a moral way.
It takes quite an inflated ego to think a god would actually die for us, after condemning us unjustly in the first place.
Christians have swallowed a lie and don’t care how evil they make Jesus to keep their feel good get out of hell free card.
It is a lie, first and foremost, because, like it or not, having another innocent person suffer or die for the wrongs you have done, --- so that you might escape responsibility for having done them, --- is immoral.
To abdicate your personal responsibility for your actions or use a scapegoat is immoral.
Christians also have to ignore what Jesus, as a Jewish Rabbi, would have taught his people.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Deuteronomy 24:16 (ESV) "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
Psa 49;7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
There is no way that Christians would teach their children to use a scapegoat to escape their just punishments and here you are promoting doing just that.
Jesus is just a smidge less immoral than his demiurge genocidal father, and here you are trying to put him as low in moral fiber as Yahweh. Tsk tsk.
Regards
DL