Why would God Forbid Knowledge?

Question

Why would God not allow Adam or Eve to have fruit from the tree of knowledge?

Answer 1

different levels of knowledge breeds diversity = conflict?

maybe god wanted his creations to follow a set of imperatives and hence live harmonious lives

Answer 2

God does not prevent knowledge, Man does. It is a way to control the masses.
God has always wanted a relationship with man, He has tried countless covenants with man, but man is the one who breaks them.
I think that the reason that fruit from the tree of knowledge was forbidden, was because Adam and Eve were not ready for that knowledge. They were new beings, that needed much guidance and they were not ready to govern themselves.

Answer 3

The creators of that story had to have some reason of why humans are so much smarter and Superior than animals and why we aren't in that paradise anymore and why we do sin. A few hundred-thousand years before the authors of genesis wrote down their ideas there also happened to be another even more ancient "mythology" that happened to have a similar story. Archaeologists discovered a cylinder that depicted a man and a woman sitting beneath the seven branched tree of life and a snake off to the side... hmm, sound familiar? I guess there weren't very many laws about plagiarism then, now were there?

Answer 4

God didn't want them to know good from evil because he didn't want them to make a choice between good or evil cause he knew what they were going to do which would be evil. The real question is why did he give us a tree of knowledge knowing Eve was going to eat from the tree.

Answer 5

some people say that eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil meant that Adam and Eve wanted to be like God.
I read the Bible, especially the creation story and Genesis stories as people's attempts at understanding and explaining the age old questions, "how did we get here, who made us, etc..." I don't take them literally.

Answer 6

eating fruit from the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil' (symbol of disobedience to God) results death, while eating fruit from the 'tree of life' (symbol of obedience to God) results salvation. jesus christ never had to come to die for sinners if the first man, adam, did not fail. since adam's fall in eden, human access to the tree of life was cut off. and every person has committed sin (disobedience to God) ever since. so, everyone has to die because death is the penalty of sin. Good and evil as defined by humans results confusion. God alone knows what is good for humans. We all have a choice even today whether to 'eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil' (disobey God) or 'eat from the tree of life' (obey God)

Answer 7

Because, the more we gain knowledge--I am not talking about education--but, like cloning, once humans learnt how to clone they have cloned dogs cats, sheep, and now humans.
The same scientists are crossing human cells with animal cells.

They say it is for the good (grow new organs, etc.), but people have a way of misusing it. Also, we would think ourselves smarter than God.

Answer 8

He doesn't forbid knowledge.

The tree in question is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

It was not the tree of knowledge in general.

Answer 9

That was knowledge that they would have been better off without. Would you l you like to know exactly when each and every person you know would die? Could you handle it? GOD knows what he is doing- and why. Our piqiuen minds can never comprehend the mind of GOD!

Answer 10

Knowledge is power that's why they said it was forbidden.

The men who wrote this story was quite good. trying the make you think curiosity is bad, believe and do what you told without question. Lil That's a very good way to control people.

Answer 11

knowledge is subject to freewill that's why whatever we want to do or pursue, through this, we gain knowledge. i think the issue about Adam and Eve is about obedience and obedience might only be done through their own freewill, though they already have knowledge that the tree is forbidden.