To have an authentic life, was it neccessary for Adam and Eve to eat from The Tree of Knowledge of Good&Evil?

Question

Do you believe, as I do, that the greatest day of Adam and Eve's life was when they ate from The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Answer 1

Absolutely.

I don't know what they were before that -- without knowledge of right and wrong, without work, without sex -- but they were not human.

The day they ate of the Tree was the day they grew up. Graduation Day.

Answer 2

No, I don't believe that.
The day they ate of the tree, they learned about evil. Before, all they knew was good. God was good, they were good and everything around them was good.
Now why would they need to know about evil in order to have an authentic life?
Do you really have to experience sickness in order to enjoy health? Do you have to be able to experience hunger, misery and pain in order to appreciate life? Do you need to see war, so you'll value peace?
I know I don't!
One day, God is going to restore things to the way they were before evil became a part of everything. I am very sure, that I'm not going to miss any of the evil that this earth has to offer.
I will not be sorry that animals don't have to suffer anymore, that children will no longer get sick and that there will be peace for all eternity.

Answer 3

Yes, I do beleive as you do in this case. Adam and Eve had to choose to disobey Heavenly Father, so we could eventually be born. Prior to them eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil, they had not, nor could they, procreate.
People who think that there is such thing as original sin are wrong. It had to happen. I am very thankful to Father Adam and Mother Eve for the gift they gave.

Answer 4

If the story is literally true, I believe you are right. That was the day that they started living their own lives and making their own decisions. They were no longer animals but became human.

I think the Adam and Eve story is more metaphorical though. I think in our past history there were two individuals who made the step from animal to man by gaining a knowledge of good and evil. They became sentient.

Answer 5

The idea behind the story is that Adam and Eve had all that they needed. They were perfect as created by God.

They wanted to do something they weren't supposed to do. They trustest THEMESELVES more than they trusted in GOD. That was their sin.

The point of the story is that man is fooled by his own intelligence. When he starts trying to figure things out, he is simply complicating an already perfect world. God's way, the way they lived already, is the ultimate and perfect life. Nothing that they could "learn" outside of God would improve their lives at all. But they chose to disobey God because they put their own desires before closeness to God.

Answer 6

usually the greatest day in peoples lives is when their child is born. The greatest lesson Adam and Eve learned was on the momentous day in the garden of eden. See what happens when you don't listen, you have to wear clothes and work for a living.

Answer 7

God choose His creations to love Him as much as obtainable A creature with loose will loves its grasp greater advantageous than a creature without loose will with the intention to have loose will, there could be some determination for insurrection, no be counted how small. God gave Adam and Eve the full backyard, full of who-is acquainted with what share timber they might consume from and there grow to be only that one, itty bitty tree they have been advised to no longer consume from, and that they nonetheless rebelled. God loves his creatures, yet He hates sin, and sinful, imperfect creatures could be denied the full glory of God. It grow to be God's justice that denied Adam and Eve eternal existence(God's blessing to His suited introduction), besides the shown fact that that's God's mercy that allowed of project for redemption by using Jesus. an identical loose will that damned mankind will additionally be the line to salvation.

Answer 8

No, I don't believe as you do.

The greatest mistake man ever made was to eat the forbidden fruit of the "knowledge of good and evil." Contaminated with evil as man was, he could not remain in the land of the living to corrupt it with evil. So because of that mistake man was cast out of the garden and no longer has access to the "tree of life." Without access to the "tree of life" we received a sentence of death and are now captive in the land of the dead. And because of what we, mankind, did we now dwell in Gehenna which is ruled by that same serpent that first deceived us.

Answer 9

I would think it was the worst day of their life...life became very hard for them afterwards. Knowledge of evil contributes nothing positive to a person's life. It just plants ideas in the person's head so they are tempted to do it. Before the fall, they knew nothing but love and goodness..after that they had to struggle with their fallen natures..sin brought sickness and disease into the world.

Answer 10

yes I agree. I read Paradise Lost, by John Milton. (If you're interested in Adam and Eve, I suggest reading it.) I agree with Milton's belief that Adam and Eve's fall from paradise was a "Felix Culpa". God knew it would happen, but did not interfere because he didn't want to infringe upon free will. True, they chose to sin, but without the sin it would be impossible for them to repent, and thus experience the full grace of God in its fruition. Milton implies that God intended to make good out of the evil of sin through his son's sacrifice. When Christ was crucified, he overcame sin and death, which completely destroyed Satan's plot to corrupt mankind. So yes, I think we should consider Adam and Eve's fall a blessing in disguise, because without it, we would not have received Christ as God's sacrifice for us.

Answer 11

I am atheist. I don't know enough about the story, just some. From what I understand, I would say yes to the question. It kind of reminds me of agent smith on the matrix telling Morpheus how humans need to define reality through suffering. You may or may not get what I am saying.