2006-10-23 13:16:20 · 18 answers · asked by Quan S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
some of the answers given were that "God wanted to test ones freewill" but if God truly is omnipetent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent then there would be no use to test would there?
2006-10-23 13:22:56 · update #1
To see if Adam and Eve were hard headed and not listen to what God told them not too do.
2006-10-23 13:19:03 · answer #1 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you mean the Tree of Knowledge. Man was given a free will and was able to withstand any temptation. God has always given mankind a way of escape. Without the tree and the command there would be no temptation or test. No way that man could show total trust in God and His word.
Adam failed in that he did not take God at His word. We all do the same thing to some extent.
2006-10-23 20:18:20 · answer #2 · answered by jemhasb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a set-up, this is not a joke...
A child must grow up and accept the trials and tribulations of life in order to "know" good and evil. The one MUST come with the other, power AND responsibility, Knowledge and the Fruits of tht knowledge both good and bad. In this same manner, God placed Adam and Eve in a situation that would cause them to choose real adult life, not the life of an eternal child who would be cared for but never grow. Furthermore, this choice had to be made, at least form the perspective of the chooser, voluntarily. Consider this. If it wasn't a set-up, why else would God, after Adam and Eve ate the fruit, ask them to show themselves? Surely he could see them! (and also he knew what was going to happen anyway) He staged this event as a lesson.
Probably my favorite story in the Bible, ...highly allegorical and complex.
2006-10-23 20:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by Al 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am going to assume you mean the tree of knowledge of good and evil, not the tree of wisdom; which is a different principle.
To not have the tree ofknowledge (of good and evil) would eliminate the potential test of Adam and Eve obeying God.
Put another way, with no tree, Adam and Eve would have been basically reduced to a mechanical obedience and not had the (test) choice of obey God,or not obey God.
2006-10-23 20:28:43 · answer #4 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tree of knowledge was put in the garden to "test" A&E according to the christians. This is contradictory to their belief that god is all knowing, because why test if you know the outcome?
It's kind of like how God told them they would die if they ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge, yet panicked and threw them out before they could eat from the tree of life...
It's just bad storytelling and circular logic.
2006-10-23 20:22:24 · answer #5 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a literal tree, but God employed it for a symbolic purpose. Because he called it “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad” and because he commanded that the first human pair not eat from it, the tree fittingly symbolized God’s right to determine for humans what is “good” (pleasing to God) and what is “bad” (displeasing to God). The presence of this tree thus tested man’s respect for God’s sovereignty. Sadly, the first human pair disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden fruit. They failed this simple yet profound test of obedience and appreciation.—Gen. 3:1-6.
2006-10-23 20:31:22 · answer #6 · answered by papavero 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were physically perfect, but had free will and still had to grow spiritually. It was indeed put there for a test.
It was called the tree of knowledge of good and bad.
2006-10-23 20:19:28 · answer #7 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Adam and Eve had free will. In order to be able to test their free will, they needed a source of temptation. Hence the tree of Wisdom and the fall of man.
2006-10-23 20:18:34 · answer #8 · answered by Justin Miller 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tree, plant, garden. Where would you have put the damn thing if you were God! In the middle of the Road to Perdition? Hmmmnnn, Think about it a second!
2006-10-23 20:20:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't. There was no tree, there was no garden of eden. It's a creation myth of the Hebrew goat herders, with parts borrowed from older, existing mythologies in the Mesopotamian region and other parts added on. You don't really think there was such a place, do you?
2006-10-23 20:22:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋