Someone answered knowledge was not meant for us( tree of knowledge)?

Question

Because God forbids Adam and Eve to eat that fruit. While I think he has a point but then again why would God trouble Himself putting tree over there and explicitly commanding not to touch it? Maybe God's reversed psychology?

But with the absence of knowledge how could one exercise free will to make a choice?

I know question like this is very uncomfortable to ask especially to believers. But believe me it was not meant to embarass but rather to see the extent how much one truly understand the creator.

The fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge? But there's no knowledge yet, therefore, the absence of fear.

Are you implying pre-knowledge era is a mindless slaves of God? Perhaps your answer only brings back to my question.

Answer 1

It wasn't general knowledge. It was the knowledge of Good and evil

Answer 2

Proverbs 1:7 says "The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge"

-Adam and Eve did not Fear the Lord enough obviously...they were easily led astray by the enemy-

Answer 3

Rudolf Otto, a German theologian of the early 1900s, wrote, ‘The ‘irrational’ is today a favorite theme of all who are too lazy to think or too ready to evade the arduous duty of clarifying their ideas and grounding their convictions on a basis of coherent thought”..... On the other hand, we must recognize that God is God and we are not. We must never lose sight of the mystery of God and the feelings of awe that can be stirred by the discovery of a new bird or by the beauty of frost frozen on the trees or by the singing of words like, “God Himself is with us: Let us now adore Him, and with awe appear before Him?

Answer 4

God wants mankind to have freewill, and with freewill comes choices. God put the tree there to give Adam and Eve a choice. They only had one law to follow: do not eat from the fruit.

Answer 5

עכשיו מסתכל שוב בתמונה, ורואה מי זה מי פיתה ערב, ומה שהוא הפרי של העץ, ואתה תדע מה שזה להיות, ואיך זה יהיה עם הזרע שלך בין האנשים בסוף הימים של הגיל, וכל שאתה לא תוכל להבין אני אעשה ידוע אליך בשבילך טוב משמח בראות שלי, ואני אומר לך של הדברים האלו שיוחזקו בלב שלי.

Answer 6

I've never understood this, either. If it wasn't for Adam and Eve, who could it have been for? The animals? The serpent?

I'll be looking for answers to this.

Answer 7

And without the help of that talking snake we would still be naked little idiots running around a garden singing Kumbaya!

Answer 8

if God had wished He could have created us as mindless slaves but this would not be love or freedom and God is pure love,so He took a dangerous gamble and gave us free will and choice to be obedient and had to allow for us to be free not too.