Amica
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My religion is Islam. What Islamic tradition teaches may shed some light to the question of the original post. According to Islam:
a. Man was already unlike other creatures. God SWT gave man knowledge that even angels did not have. One example of this was given in the Noble Qur'an, where it was mentioned that Adam pbuh, enlightened by God SWT, was able to name animals that God SWT created. No other being was able to do so.
b. God SWT ordered all creation to bow to man. All did except Iblis (satan).
c. When God SWT created all, He offered free will to all creatures. Everyone, but Man and the Jinns, rejected.
d. Man and Woman exercised their free will by eating from the Tree of good and evil, opening themselves to the temptations of more disobedience/sin. By eating from the Tree, our first parents alienated themselves further from God SWT.
However, we can never know the Divine Plan. When God SWT was about to create man, angels commented: "Even though they will shed blood?" And God's SWT reply was: "I know that which you do not."
My religion is Islam. What Islamic tradition teaches may shed some light to the question of the original post. According to Islam:
a. Man was already unlike other creatures. God SWT gave man knowledge that even angels did not have. One example of this was given in the Noble Qur'an, where it was mentioned that Adam pbuh, enlightened by God SWT, was able to name animals that God SWT created. No other being was able to do so.
b. God SWT ordered all creation to bow to man. All did except Iblis (satan).
c. When God SWT created all, He offered free will to all creatures. Everyone, but Man and the Jinns, rejected.
d. Man and Woman exercised their free will by eating from the Tree of good and evil, opening themselves to the temptations of more disobedience/sin. By eating from the Tree, our first parents alienated themselves further from God SWT.
However, we can never know the Divine Plan. When God SWT was about to create man, angels commented: "Even though they will shed blood?" And God's SWT reply was: "I know that which you do not."