Since "eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge" is considered a big taboo (original sin) in Christianity?
2006-11-22 11:49:27 · 4 answers · asked by Socratic Pig 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The knowledge is of good and bad...
God didn't want us to know that because that comes with greater responsibility, God wanted us to be His friends and choose not to eat that fruit.
2006-11-22 12:07:32 · answer #1 · answered by Abbasangel 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't the actual tree itself or it's fruit that are important: it is what the eating of the fruit symbolized.
God gave Adam and Eve a perfect garden to live in and perfect health to enjoy and eternal life to look forward to. His only rule in the Garden was that they not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Why? Because the tree was a visual reminder of "God’s right to determine or set the standards for man as to what is “good” (approved by God) and what is “bad” (condemned by God). It thus constituted a test of man’s respect for his Creator’s position and his willingness to remain within the area of freedom decreed by God, an area that was by no means cramped and that allowed for the greatest enjoyment of human life. Therefore, to violate the boundaries of the prohibited area by eating of “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad” would be an invasion of or a revolt against God’s domain and authority."
Adam and Eve ate from the tree, and thus directly disobeyed God and disregarded His right as the Creator to decide what is good and bad for us.
As for the intellectual part, being a true Christian requires more intellect than most would assume. It requires and encourages "taking in knowledge of . . . the only true God, and of the one . . . sent forth, Jesus Christ."
True Christians are Bible readers, study extensively and prove to themselves the "good and acceptable and perfect will of God."
2006-11-22 12:54:00 · answer #2 · answered by danni_d21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
before everything concept and as an agnostic, i could say that Christians are often anti-psychological. ordinarily, Christians at the instant are not inspired to seek for truths previous what they're taught or what's directed by utilising the Bible as you have stated in question. i think of that such anti-intellectualism is practiced predominantly by utilising fundamentalist Christians. Conversely besides the undeniable fact that, the Jesuits have a recognition for being quite psychological. There are people who're Christian from worry, and that worry will preclude them from thinking dogma. As a newborn I attended a liberal Protestant denomination -- for which i'm grateful; in extreme college we had a Sunday college instructor who worked for NASA and who inspired us to question our faith; in effect, I became agnostic, although i will bear in mind mentally thinking the life god at a plenty youthful age. Christians would be anti-psychological, for my area, in the event that they're content fabric to be "sheep" and to persist with the Bible actually. psychological interest has an inclination to beget nontheists!
2016-10-12 22:49:09 · answer #3 · answered by porix 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the answer lies in your question. christian god did for bid eating the fruit of knowledge. it means that he does not want to become man a thinking being but should obey his orders without rational thinking. this blind faith does not confine to Christianity but also to other major religions they demand from their followers total subservience.
2006-11-22 15:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋