Wouldn't You Eat What Your Wife Told You Was Good? Even if Some Guy Said Not To?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
December 4, 2012 4:04pm CST
Because that's what happened in the Garden of Eden! 'The other creation ate it; why not me too?'
I hear that--before "The Fall" (& maybe a little after)--G*d was just 'another guy walking around in the Garden'---that one could not tell the difference between him & Adam!
So I think his 'commandment not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge' was more of a 'general suggestion.' And Eve--though she had probably been given a similar suggestion--merely saw the serpent eating of it, thought "Why not us?" ate it, found it was good, and offered it to Adam.
But--since G*d hadn't been the one who offered the fruit--S*T*N broke G*d's dominion over the humans, and naturally--as he saw he couldn't control us so easily--G*d had to assume dominion over things we can't control---sickness, death, luck.
Maybe you begin to think 'Why can't we control those things?' And remember, Adam and a lot of the other guys in early Genesis lived for several-hundred years. Why don't we?
Is it because our wives 'make shorter lives much more worthwhile?' 
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
5 Dec 12
If my wife wanted me to eat what God told me not to...I would go with God...definitely. Easy decision for me. 
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
5 Dec 12
How would you know it was G*d talking to you and not some imaginary voice? How do you know that it's not 'G*d speaking through your wife'?
@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
6 Dec 12
If the voice said it was God speaking, I would ask a few hard questions and ask for some sign.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
6 Dec 12
Jesus said "A perverse generation seeks a sign ..."
@Paper_Doll (2373)
• Philippines
12 Dec 12
I prefer to be controlled by God than served Satan. And if by eating I will lost my eternal life, I think I will think a million times before I can come up to a decision. Who will exchange her eternal life for just a mere good fruit? Too bad that our first parents listened to that serpent and lost their eternal lives.
And in real life, if my husband would told me to do something that is against God's will, I think that I will need to check on him to know if it still God he is serving. A wife, or a husband, still have their own mind to decide on every situation. They could still recognize if it is wrong or right. I am serving my husband but if it is Satan instead of God he is serving, I don't think I will follow what my husband told me to do so. God is above all men so although I respect my husband and consider him as my head, I will not tolerate anything he does that is against God's words.
@Paper_Doll (2373)
• Philippines
12 Dec 12
No, a good wife will not tolerate if she knew that her husband is doing something against God's will which may put their marriage and their own family at risk. Instead, she will have to be ready to make appropriate actions to correct this. And correcting your spouse does not necessarily mean that you will go on separation.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Dec 12
What will your husband have to do to show that either he now sees the error of his ways & that you set him right again, or that 'the wrong thing' WAS what G*d told him to do and that--if you're against him--you're against G*d? (I'm not sure which one, so tell me both just-in-case 
)
)@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Dec 12
The World would say you are right; but "honor & obey" means to assume that G*d TOLD your spouse to do what they do and to order you to do the same thing, and so 'making your own decision' would be breaking your covenant.
Although ... you COULD say it's G*D breaking the covenant if you heard from G*d that you need to break your trust! Because "What G*d hath put together, let no MAN put asunder."
You remember that--try as he might to blame Eve for 'being a woman' 
--Adam was STILL just as cursed as she was!
--Adam was STILL just as cursed as she was!
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
22 Dec 12
This whole thing was a set up. If G-d didn't Really want us to have knowledge , then why did he plant the tree of knowledge? It was just luck that Eve ate it first. I hate this version. I prefer the Pandora- Zeus version. Zeus was pi$$ed off and set up the men by sending Pandora and the box. This way women Are Meant to destroy men. that is why I Know Any wife today will try to boss her guy around. Sadly if he doesn't eat what she fixes , he maybe on the couch at night.So a good husband will eat what his wife says to eat. A bad husband will not.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
3 Jan 13
I don't understand. Are you calling me a Buddhist?
@KristinaRae (11)
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6 Dec 12
If men were truly inherently inclined to eat what was good for them based on the opinion of their wife, there'd be a lot less problems with cholesterol, heart attacks, diabetes, weight issues, etc.
I think it more comes down to people generally just do what they want to do, and having someone else to blame or being able to claim some kind of false altruism for it is all the more convenient.
Some people choose to take the advice of others, including God, and other people don't. We were all given free will to make that kind of choice and live with whatever consequences result.
