Why did "God" not want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge?

Question

Is it because he didn't want them to become gods?

Answer 1

The tree of knowledge is symbolic for sex. Notice how all through the book it says, "Adam knew Eve and conceived Abel", then "Adam knew her again". The tree of knowledge is symbolic for sex.

It goes back to the Annuanki thing, and the Sumerian tablets, where the creator god gave Adam and Eve the ability to procreate and his brother the Lord of the gods became angry because only the gods could procreate not humans. He was afraid that men would try to become like the gods. So he cursed his brother the creator god, (who later was turned into the wise serpent, symbol for wisdom and medicine).

He did not like the humans procreating. In some of the tablets he even complains that the sound of the humans copulating was keeping him awake at night. This is why the flood was sent because he became angry because the sons of god was taking the daughters of men for wives and polluting the bloodline.

Many scholars agree that most religions and mythologies originated from the Sumerian texts as did this story. But since it was changed after the thousands of years of being retold orally before the biblical authors wrote it down again it has changed many times, lost most of the meaning, and now doesn't make sense. So people try to come up with answers to make it should like it implies to something that they think goes along the lines of their current culture and religion.

Answer 2

No because then we would have been gods since Eve ruined it for us.

I was always told this angle - It wasn't so much God didn't want them to. It was a test of will power. If I set something there and tell you to leave it alone, will you leave it alone? If you can't do something a simple as that in exchange for the good life, then you don't deserve the good life. God even added to the lure by saying it was a tree of knowledge, but it was more of a tree measuring knowledge - their knowledge. And obviously they didn't have any.

Its sort of like a parent telling their child, not to open the cookie jar. You know the mom or dad is going to hand the kid a cookie, the kid just can't wait and goes for it anyway,

Answer 3

Your question makes little sense. If G*d's reason for forbidding eating the tree is that they'd become gods, they would have become gods after eating the fruit. Duh.

In the Orthodox Jewish traditional interpretation, G*d's command not to eat from the Tree was to give Adam and Eve free choice and allow them to earn, as opposed to receive, absolute perfection and intimate communion with G*d, a higher level than the one on which they were created. According to this tradition, Adam and Eve would have attained absolute perfection and retained immortality had they succeeded in withstanding the temptation to eat from the Tree. After failing at this task, they were condemned to a period of toil to rectify the fallen universe.

Answer 4

Depends what god you're talking about... if memory serves, there's a Gnostic version of the Garden of Eden in which one god of many decides to make humans, even though he's not supposed to trap immortal souls in flesh. He does it anyway.

Another god sees this, a god called the Father of Light. He wants to give the humans some advantage, since the other god put them in such a difficult position by trapping them in the physical world. So he appears in the form of a serpent and offers the fruit of knowledge as a way of leveling the playing field.

Sound oddly familiar but not at all the same as the Christian tale? Just another ancient piece of writing that's no more or less sacred than any others, if you ask me.

Answer 5

GOD had given Adam dominion over everything the birds of the air, the fish in the sea, the animals that walked the earth, and over all the plants of the earth. The one thing HE required of Adam was not to eat of the fruit of "one tree" and HE said if you eat of the tree of knowledge of Good and evil in that day you Will surely die. When they ate of the tree sin entered into the world, Adam gave dominion of the earth to Satan and they died within that day. Because GOD's day is a thousand years and the Bible states that Adam died at 937 years old. And still today we are all msharing in Adam's inheritance of the wages of sin.

Answer 6

God gave the tree of knowledge to Adam and Eve , and gave them the free will to choose to eat from it , or not. He (God) also told them the consequences for doing so ("thou shalt surely die"). After eating the fruit , Eve understood that the fall was necessary for humanity to be.

Moses Ch 5 :

10 And in that day Adam blessed God and was filled, and began to prophesy concerning all the families of the earth, saying: Blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God.
11 And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient.

Answer 7

A common understanding of God's edict not to eat of the tree of knowledge was in relation to the issue of obedience. Which generally only flows out of a trusting relationship. So, then we can ask the question, "why didn't adamah & isha (Adam & Eve) trust God enough to listen?

Answer 8

The true reason why the lord commanded Adam and Eve to not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, because he's God. And if God gave them a law to live by and they disobeyed, he let them know that they will surely die and there was no alternative around that consequence. It just plainly show that God is God and he's still God the Spirit whom created mankind and still loves sinners. God doesn't have to explain himself. He is and always will be God. And it was not because he didn't want them to become gods. He didn't want them to be eternally seperated from their creator and their God. He knew that if they disobeyed that they will die and be eternally seperated from him. Because they disobeyed, they died in their sins and they was seperated from God, but was conformed to sin and Satan became their God. And he's yours too.

Answer 9

Before they ate from the tree, they were dedicated to God with whole hearts. After they ate from the tree, they realized things that they didn't know, such as they were naked. God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree because he knew that if they did, they would not be as loyal to him.

Answer 10

he was protecting their innocence. once they ate from the tree of knowledge then would know shame and evil and pain. he didn't want that for them. he had set up a perfect life for them and gave them free will. and with free will comes life decisions, and this was one of those bad decisions. so why plant the tree?? well, for free will to work, you have to be able to decide you are going to follow God. or follow his enemy, Lucifer. that tree was there to tempt adam and eve, and if they had decided to turn down Lucifers suggestion then he would have been destroyed and would not be allow to have power over anything on this earth and we could all be living a most wonderful life in Eden. but, unfortunatly they made a bad decision and now lucifer's suggestions run wild all over the earth. but thankfully, God loves us and sent his son to die for our sins. so the fact man fell to sin can be erased if we look to God for our salvation. God didn't want to control adam and eve, so he gave them free will and decisions to make and unfortuatly they made some really bad decisions.