LouBelle.
It is not an "apple" although I do not care about it.
I think that Jehovah's Witnesses never say it an "apple."
cluless.
I think that your question is reasonable.
Probably, you are a gentle person.
Although I do not know whether it is help you, the following is written in the book "What Pastor Russell Said."
ADAM--Why Given Second Trial?
Q6:2:: QUESTION (1909)--2--If Adam has had a trial
and failed, will he have another and if so, what for? Why
should he be resurrected if he failed in the first trial?
ANSWER.--The reason that he is to have a resurrection
and another trial is because God willed it so, and that is the
very best reason. Now, if you want to know why, we may do
some guessing, perhaps, to our advantage.
I think the reason God willed it so is that in some respects
Adam did not have a trial under the most favorable conditions
that God could have arranged, although his trial was a just trial.
He was fully equipped mentally,
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but a great temptation came to him, and because of the lack of
experience he failed. AWhat was the trial or temptation?
You remember that the Apostle tells us that Adam was not
deceived; he knew what he was doing, that he was eating the
forbidden fruit, violating God's command, and that it meant
death. There was no ignorance about it. Why did he do it? I
think the narrative bears out the thought that he did it because
of sympathetic love. He had been without a wife, and while
the various kinds of birds could twitter, and the other animals
make some commotion, such were not satisfactory to man, so
after God gave him a wife, bone of his bone, and flesh of his
flesh, and he had enjoyed that sweet companionship, and he
realized that he would lose her and that he would be alone
again after she disobeyed, he said, I will eat with her and die
with her. If she must go out in the unprepared earth and die, so
will I. So, really this is a very noble feature of the first man's
character, and the condition of his trial, you will see, made it a
very severe trial. Now, then, I think it would be just like our
Heavenly Father to say: Adam, at the time you did that, you
did not know fully what I could or would do for you, and what
you might have had at that time if you had been obedient.
Now, Adam, I intend to redeem you and all your race. You
will have a demonstration of my love, and after you have
learned of the height and depth and length and breadth of my
love, I will expect you to fully and perfectly keep my law and
live forever, but if you do not obey, then you will die the
second death and will never have another opportunity for
restitution.