There were two trees in the midst of the garden. Tree of knowlege of good and evil and the Tree of life.
2006-08-01 07:02:32 · 13 answers · asked by djmantx 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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The tree represents the attempt of humans to make themselves the supreme moral authority. The serpent didn't just tell them to eat, he said they would "be like gods, knowing good and evil." Humans are finite beings. The presumption to try to take over the role of the infinite God, the sole and supreme moral authority, represents human's turning away from God and trying to make human ideas, leaders, and authorities supreme.
It is not psychedelic mushrooms, that is a load of garbage put forth by anthropologists who took one too many trips into the Amazon, who don't have what it takes to make genuine contributions to the field and as have to rely on gimmicks to sell books to a gullible public.
2006-08-01 07:23:11 · answer #1 · answered by koresh419 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Tree of Knowledge of good and evil represents the critical point in human development when we began to judge things and actions. The snake becomes "bad." Nakedness becomes "bad." Sin was born. Before this point there was no good or bad. Everything just was. As soon as men began to declare things good or bad, evil was unleashed.
The evil stems from the judgment. Judging allows man to look at the world as "us vs. them. " We are the good guys, they are the bad, therefore we can/must stop them.
Animals don't have laws and courts. Animals can't judge each other. Animals just do. That is why the tree of knowledge of good and evil is what caused man to loose heaven.
Heaven was the world before judgment, before good and evil.
Earth is where we live trying to remember where we came from. When we stop judging each other and seeing the world in black and white, us and them, then we will be back in the Garden of Eden
2006-08-01 08:13:42 · answer #2 · answered by acornfullfilled 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple of interpretations (aside from the absurd literal one).
1. The tree represents a transition from childhood to adulthood. As we grow up, our knowledge increases, which simultaneously makes us culpable for our actions.
2. (Don't laugh, this one is serious) The tree of knowledge represents psychodelic mushrooms long used by ancients to enter into the spiritual world to commune with god.
2006-08-01 07:12:36 · answer #3 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It represents the knowledge and experiences of good and evil, and just opposites in general (hot - cold, stormy - sunny, sick - health)
I think in modern application (you know - what does it mean for us today?) It has a lot to do with our own daily learning and gaining of experiences. It's a hard process, but I think in the end we're better for it, I mean could you ever know happiness, if you never knew sorrow?
2006-08-01 07:21:16 · answer #4 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By taking it in the full context of Adam & Eve were punished for partaking in the tree of knowledge, it represents the biblical need to remain unknowledgeable, ignorant, and uninformed.
2006-08-01 07:13:26 · answer #5 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not complex.
It represented KNOWING good from evil. Once you know that, you no longer have the innocence of an animal. Animals just dont know and as such, cannot be held accountable.
2006-08-01 07:33:51 · answer #6 · answered by Alexander Shannon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve have been created in "God's image" (Genesis a million:27). The couple have been created suitable in the two ideas and physique. Jehovah God created Adam and Eve and something of humankind to renowned the version between precise and incorrect. They have been somewhat warned interior the backyard of Eden to no longer touch the tree of know-how of solid and undesirable by Jehovah God. "And Jehovah God additionally laid this command upon the guy: “From each and every tree of the backyard you may consume to delight. (17) yet as for the tree of the certainty of solid and undesirable you will desire to no longer consume from it, for interior the day you consume from it you will definitely die.”-Genesis 2:sixteen, 17 while devil disguised as a serpent spoke to Eve he deceived her into questioning she ought to grow to be like God (Genesis 3:a million-5). Adam and Eve made a adverse decision to consume the fruit from the tree. They knew they have been incorrect thats why the couple hid themselves from God (Genesis 3:8-10). Jehovah God does not have something to hid, he's God Almighty. in case you like any help with comprehend-how the Scriptures you may continuously talk to the Jehovah Witnesses on your section. we furnish very own unfastened Bible examine assisting human beings to comprehend Bible truths.
2016-10-01 08:40:37 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil represented awareness of sin, so when they ate of it they were no Longer naive and they were responsible for their actions. i dont buy into that original sin stuff. original sin is not even mentioned in the Bible
2006-08-01 07:11:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think it represented anything. it was what it was. eat from it and you get the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve ate and here we are today, bombs going off everywhere.
2006-08-01 07:08:43 · answer #9 · answered by Kansas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HELLO?
It represented THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL.
2006-08-01 07:09:24 · answer #10 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋