"Oh crap, if they eat that fruit, they'll learn about evolution! Quick, get them out!"
2006-07-24 05:31:13 · 22 answers · asked by Kenny ♣ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah, the question's meant as humor, but some people probably take it seriously... so here is my understanding right now:
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Imagine that you have a relationship with someone -- a relationship that is perfect in every way. You share everything, you know everything, both of you care about each other more than you try to take care of yourselves, you are comfortable and safe in feeling that you can give everything for this other person (in a healthy way, not a codependent way).
In other words, you are completely trusting of each other, safe with each other, and so forth -- you are directly acting out of real, true, other-centered love.
One day you come home and the person greets you rather mechanically. Instead of interacting with you, they carry with them a large checklist of "good" behaviors and "bad" behaviors. As they do all the things on the list, they cross them off and then tell you that you are now "required" to respond in a positive way towards them because they have learned and fulfilled all the requirements of a "good relationship."
How would you feel? I would feel crushed, wounded, rejected, abandoned, slapped in the face, and so forth... because I had been trustworthy, but my love had decided that she could no longer trust me and so needed to find a method of "controlling" our relationship so that her perceived needs could be met.
In any case, we've now stepped away from a "real loving relationship" into "moral behavior" that is not really doing anything to bring two people together in trust, love, and soul intimacy.
This is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil -- the checklist we "gained" at the moment we decided that we needed to somehow have control over God and each other, to get what we thought we wanted, rather than trusting each other as we had been.
This sort of mentality is a definite "step down" in a relationship.
2006-07-24 05:56:02 · answer #1 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I really like this question. I personally don't believe in the story of creation. But it does raise question. Adam and Eve were made in the likeness of God. Since God Created the world and Adam. One can assume that God is more powerful that Adam and Eve. So, then how does that correlate with tree of knowledge? One can argue that knowledge is power. Therefore the reason God did not want adam or eve to eat from the tree of knowledge is because God did not want Adam or Eve more powerful than himself/herself/being.
2006-07-24 12:41:46 · answer #2 · answered by thedecider20 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats not what the point of the Tree of Knowledge was. God created the tree of knowledge to test Adam and Eve, to see if they would obey God. They would learn from this tree no matter what they did about it. God taught Adam and Eve about sin and consequences with this tree. God was not afraid of anything, he knew what would happen if they did eat, and what would happen if they didn't eat.
2006-07-24 12:36:19 · answer #3 · answered by rachelle105210 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It actualy was called the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Which represents the law and as no man is perfect and the wages of sin is death. Eating of the law is eating to your own destruction. The fruit of that tree was very appealing to the eye and was good but the facts are the law destroys that which is not perfect..If you recall the story there was another tree in the midst of the garden that tree was the tree of life and they were removed from the the garden lest thay eat of it and live forever. the tree of life represented Christ. Eat of this tree and you will live forever. That is the salvation that comes from Jesus who was God in the flesh who came to the world to overcome sin and to atone for the sins of all who accept him. There you have the Law and Salvation in the midst of the Garden. It is a perfect example of God's first people who were under law and God's adopted Children who are under the grace of Jesus Christ. One should consider which tree they are eating from? If you are not eating of the tree of life you are subject to the tree of knowledge of good and evil and this while it looks good to a man in his own wisdom it is the destruction of him.
2006-07-24 12:49:17 · answer #4 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
U are right. Eveloution, the difference between good and bad. It was like pandora's box.
But then again, this was ment to happen as it was indeed a part of the great plan that God had for all mankind.
2006-07-24 12:35:53 · answer #5 · answered by neddy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story is a myth, but it wasn't "wrong" that they ate from the tree of knowledge, it was a way of being able to understand for themselves what was right and what was wrong. I know a few people who could use that tree right about now.
2006-07-24 12:37:58 · answer #6 · answered by Kelly K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God is all knowing....he knew they would eat of the tree. Some say he was testing them....but, when you know everything, why is there a need to test.
So...in my opinion....God did in fact want them to eat of the tree of knowledge.
2006-07-24 12:38:48 · answer #7 · answered by aslongasitsfunky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure that evolution provides the complete story? Have you considered that humans may have been genetically altered? It is possible that both religon and evolution are used to steer us away from what really went down.
2006-07-24 12:39:37 · answer #8 · answered by commonxsense2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it wasn't that God was afraid, I mean, He's God. He's omnipotent. Why would he be afraid of anything? I think it was more about obedience than anything else. Of course, it's all guesswork (unless you believe in the infalliability of the Bible), so who knows?
2006-07-24 12:35:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just that his 7 days are a LOT longer than our 7 days.
2006-07-24 12:35:20 · answer #10 · answered by cirestan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋