The world that Adam and Eve were living before the Fall was considered a perfect one. They had no needs (as in, they never asked for anything nor sought out a missing piece) as everything they actually needed (such as water, food, shelter) was already provided to them. The only think I could think of the pre-Fall world needing was an appropriate companion for Adam prior to Eve's creation.
I tend to think of needs with some end in mind. Like, what do you need in order to physically survive vs. what do you need to survive and be comfortable etc. etc. etc. Because without some context it's hard to say what you "need." You could say that everybody needs nourishment. But really you only need nourishment if you want to stay alive, and who says you need to stay alive? Maybe, in fact, it's God's will for you to die. We all have to do it sometime; maybe today's your day
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I started out by thinking this. This works, except that most people do not do this. I mean, using this method, technically, no one needs anything at all. So the word becomes not that useful anymore. We have other ways of saying. "I want to live, therefore I eat."
And then there is the idea that Adam and Eve did not need anything in the original creation. That is why I went there. It seems fair to look through what we know of the created order of things and see what we now lack from that.
God, of course, can supply all needs. He seemed to do this through the creation, which He maintained, in the beginning. God also knows what we need better than we do.
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The world that Adam and Eve were living before the Fall was considered a perfect one. They had no needs (as in, they never asked for anything nor sought out a missing piece) as everything they actually needed (such as water, food, shelter) was already provided to them. The only think I could think of the pre-Fall world needing was an appropriate companion for Adam prior to Eve's creation.
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Seeing as my world view is Judeo-Christian, I, too, turn to Genesis for my idea of perfection in the world.
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I started out by thinking this. This works, except that most people do not do this. I mean, using this method, technically, no one needs anything at all. So the word becomes not that useful anymore. We have other ways of saying. "I want to live, therefore I eat."
And then there is the idea that Adam and Eve did not need anything in the original creation. That is why I went there. It seems fair to look through what we know of the created order of things and see what we now lack from that.
God, of course, can supply all needs. He seemed to do this through the creation, which He maintained, in the beginning. God also knows what we need better than we do.
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