Was sending Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden a blessing or a curse?

[Saint Bruno]

Going by what the Bible says, I believe their leaving the garden of Eden is a curse. Because they were cast out of a garden where everything was at their beck and call. Also, they were both cursed with death which is the wage of sin!

[Leecedar]

Technically it was just punishment. He asked them to not eat anything from the Garden of Eden and they did. Simple as that. Really it is us that decide whether it was a punishment or a curse... would you rather be living in a world where we walked around aimlessly?

Kparikh, God wouldn't be God if he didn't enforce justice. He is equal parts mercy and just. If that wasn't the case, then there would have been no reason for Christ to come down and die for us so that we could be forgiven for our sins. That's the unbelievable beauty of His sacrifice.

Lee

[Magnify3]

God sent Adam and Eve away from Eden as a result of the choice that they had made.

[Adebi]

Adam and eve being cast out of the garden by God is neither a blessing or a curse it is morebof a consequence

[Laura Mich]

According to the book, Adam and Eve imposed the punishment on themselves. In a way, God would have given them a second chance. In my own opinion, throwing Adam and Eve out the Garden of Aden was neither a curse nor a blessing.

[Adesola+-]

Well, to mankind it's definitely not a blessing because after they were sent out man become to struggle which they never do in the garden

[_Bokeh]

I think it was a curse because they'd suffer and it's the reason human suffering is inevitable to date. The only blessing would be that God eventually found a way to reconcile with the human race.

[Ldpuff]

This is a challenging question to answer. The truth is, no one knows. The Bible was written in the way that it happened as it is not a fictional book. As it is said, God did not want to send Adam and Eve away, but it was for them to learn to trust the Lord. In all of our lives we have to go through trials to learn the very same lesson and most times, we are better for it.

[Book Lover7]

For our every action we have to face the consequences. So, basically Adam and Eve were sending from Eden paradise for eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Its a punishment.

[Primetjay]

Taking them out of the garden of Eden was a blessing in disguise which was to preserve them from ultimate destruction

[pablo10]

Just after Adam and Eve had eaten from the tree of knowledge, God drove them away from the Garden. The author of this book seems to justify every curse that God put on Adam. At some point, Adam seems grateful for the curses. What really captured my attention was the justification of the fact that God sent them away from Eden. Do you think the main purpose was to protect them from Lucifer? Do you believe that eating from the tree of life would have worsened the situation?

I think the main purpose of that was to put some purpose in Adam's life, in this case his will to survive. If Adam stayed at the Garden of Eden, he wouldn't have to work to survive and his life would have lacked purpose. By banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, God taught Adam and Eve, and their heirs how to survive.

[Sarah Nichols 7]

The reason God sent them out is because Eden was perfect and when they ate the forbidden fruit, they brought sin into the world. At the moment, probably before, God knew He had to find a way to bridge the gap between him and man that Adam and Eve caused. I don’t see it as a blessing or a curse. It’s what had to happen because their free will gave them the ability to choose sin over obeying God.

[AbbeylincolnSty]

They were sent away from the garden as a consequence of their sins. I remember in those stories of ancient villages in Africa, when someone in a household commits abomination, they had to be banished from the village. The land would not know peace. Different calamities would befall the villagers until that household was banished to the evil forest and the gods were appeased.

[Ogbara]

Just after Adam and Eve had eaten from the tree of knowledge, God drove them away from the Garden. The author of this book seems to justify every curse that God put on Adam. At some point, Adam seems grateful for the curses. What really captured my attention was the justification of the fact that God sent them away from Eden. Do you think the main purpose was to protect them from Lucifer? Do you believe that eating from the tree of life would have worsened the situation?

First of all, God didn't put any curse what so ever on man. He only cursed the ground because of man and then increased the pains of childbearing for the woman. He didn't even introduce the pains at that time, He only increased it.....meaning the woman was already meant to experience some pain during childbirth, but probably not much.

Secondly, sending the man and woman away from the garden was for their good and that of mankind to come. That was the singular act that ensured they could be redeemed again. Because if they had gone ahead to eat from the tree of life after the fall (which I suppose they were already eating from before the fall, seeing as the tree of knowledge of good and evil was the only forbidden one), they would have lived perpetually in that fallen state with no possibility of redemption....

Yes I agree, sending them out was not to protect them from lucifer, because at that time he had already done his worst. God preventing them from eating the fruit of live, by driving them away from the garden was part of this plane for the redemption of mankind, for if they had eaten the fruit of life and had been made immortals, mankind would have been forever dammed.

[zainherb]

Sending them out of the Garden is neither. It is just the natural outcome of their choice. Since the fruit basically symbolizes the lack of trust toward nature and God and thus the awaking of the Ego and the need for knowledge, it is only natural that human beings found themselves to be isolated. It is not a curse and not a blessing.

If humans trusted God and let go of their Ego, the gates of Eden would reopen in the afterlife. It is a choice, nobody is punishing us.

Thank you!
Finally, someone who speaks English.
Things aren't usually as black and white as they seem.
Sending them from the garden was neither a curse nor a blessing. It was simply a consequence of their choice.
Thus indicating that we have the power to make choices in life, but there are consequences for each choice. This is the law of nature that God put in place.