Since knowledge is power, is that why God forbid Adam and Eve from eating from the Tree of Knowledge?

Answer 1

He didn't put the tree there on accident.....He wanted to see if they would follow His rules and also to see if they truly trust in him.

Answer 2

Okay - if we are going to be interpreting this fable I will throw my 2 cents in there.

First off, obviously - nobody who has been alive this millenium knows the true wording of the story in it's original language and with original intent. But setting that also aside and focusing on the wording we are familiar with.

It was all gods will. Clearly the character of GoD was not suprised by Adam and Eve's actions. He encapsulates time and space within the essence of his being.

No, it was a setup to teach the first of many lessons.

First of which is, OBEY ME OR ELSE.
Second being - all knowledge comes at a price.
Also he provided a little teaser of how great Eden is, just to serve as motivation to play the whole "Sin or no Sin" game of life we are supposedly all participants of.
Also this story villifies females to remind them all of their place.

If they hadn't eaten from the tree of course the planet would not exists (or something) which clearly was not the charachter playing GOD's intention.
No setting up the tree - putting his fallguy (the serpeant) into the garden - turning his back (probably literally saying "I'm not loookiiing") all these were elements of his manipulative little game. And why not? It's his universe, his planet, his little human actors to direct is it not?

If it wasn't the tree of knowledge it would have been something.
Somehow someway eventually Eve would disobey and make Adam her accomplice. If not the story could never move into it's second act. It would be stuck in stasis. How many books would that sell?

Genesis is one of the books that many self proclaimed christians have difficulty coming to terms with. Many are quick to use metaphor when discussing Genesis. Come to think of it, those types of open-minded christians often only give creedance to the New Testament and to Psalms...

Im not sure if you got this from my long winded response, but the answer to your question, in my opinion is, no.

Answer 3

That's one way to interpret the story. After the fall Adam & Eve gained the knowledge and the god-like power to create life through biological reproduction. At the same time they were forced to take on the responsibility of providing for themselves outside the comfortable Garden. This interpretation as as valid any.

Answer 4

God will give us all the knowledge we need to survive. God told Adam and Eve to not eat a specific fruit from a specific tree. They disobeyed Him. It had nothing to do with what that tree was about. It was that they ignored God's telling them to stay away from that specific tree and did it anyway.

Answer 5

The tree contain the knowledge of good and evil.
Evil knowledge is not good at all.

Answer 6

Its one way Religion protected itself - call it an EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION - since it preaches about the evils of knowledge and adovates the 'glory' of blind, ignorant faith - you're less likely to learn enough to see through the whole vile corrupt lie.

I guess God didn't want his people to realise He didnt exist at all.

Answer 7

if thay had of eaten from the tree of knowledge thay will find out that the is no god and thay have been conned

Answer 8

The true story of the so-called "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" comes from section 6 of paper 73 of the Urantia Papers titled, "The Garden of Eden." The term may be a figure of speech, a symbolic designation covering a multitude of human experiences, but the "tree of life" was not a myth; it was real and for a long time was present on our planet, Urantia.

When the Most Highs of Edentia approved the commission of Caligastia as Planetary Prince of Urantia and those of the one hundred Jerusem citizens as his administrative staff, they sent to the planet, by the Melchizedeks, a shrub of Edentia, and this plant grew to be the tree of life on Urantia. This form of nonintelligent life is native to the constellation headquarters spheres, being also found on the headquarters worlds of the local and superuniverses as well as on the Havona spheres, but not on the system capitals.

This superplant stored up certain space-energies which were antidotal to the age-producing elements of animal existence. The fruit of the tree of life was like a superchemical storage battery, mysteriously releasing the life extension force of the universe when eaten. This form of sustenance was wholly useless to ordinary evolutionary beings, but specifically it was serviceable to the one hundred materialized members of Caligastia's staff and to the one hundred modified Andonites who had contributed of their life plasm to the Prince's staff, and who, in return, were made possessors of that complement of life which made it possible for them to utilize the fruit of the tree of life for an indefinite extension of their otherwise mortal existence.

During the days of the Prince's rule the tree was growing from the earth in the central and circular courtyard of the Father's temple. Upon the outbreak of the rebellion it was regrown from the central core by Van and his associates in their temporary camp. This Edentia shrub was subsequently taken to their highland retreat, where it served both Van and Amadon for more than one hundred and fifty thousand years.

When Van and his associates made ready the Garden for Adam and Eve, they transplanted the Edentia tree to the Garden of Eden, where, once again, it grew in a central, circular courtyard of another temple to the Father. And Adam and Eve periodically partook of its fruit for the maintenance of their dual form of physical life.

When the plans of the Material Son went astray, Adam and his family were not permitted to carry the core of the tree away from the Garden. When the Nodites invaded Eden, they were told that they would become as "gods if they partook of the fruit of the tree." Much to their surprise they found it unguarded. They ate freely of the fruit for years, but it did nothing for them; they they lacked that endowment which acted as a complement to the fruit of the tree. They became enraged at their inability to benefit from the tree of life, and in connection with one of their internal wars, the temple and the tree were both destroyed by fire; only the stone wall stood until the Garden was subsequently submerged. This was the second temple of the Father to perish.

And now must all flesh on Urantia take the natural course of life and death. Adam, Eve, their children, and their children's children, together with their associates, all perished in the course of time, thus becoming subject to the ascension scheme of the local universe wherein mansion world resurrection follows material death.

Answer 9

Man was not ready for the knowldge yet.
I believe in God, but I believe in science as well. God controls what we discover. If we are not ready for a knowledge he won't let us have it.

Answer 10

No. He merely told them not to eat from it. They did anyway and therefore, disobeyed God. It has nothing to do with knowledge.

Answer 11

NOTE: Sorry this is so long, but I have pondered this arena in which you now dance and thought I would offer you my latest conclusions on the matter.
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Oh foolish Eve who's head did turn
From all God's blessings ran
For in a moment's moment yearned
A secret far too grand

Oh foolish Eve who's head did turn
From God's authority
For in a moment's moment changed
All man's destiny

Oh foolish Eve who's head did turn
From all God did command
For in a moment's moment learned
A knowledge you wish you no longer had

~el

On The Question Which Has No Answer or Not Knowing is Knowing

I do love a good mystery. I am particularly intrigued with questions that stump the masses and cause great thinkers to become better acquainted with their dear friend, insomnia.

Eve too was a curious one desiring to know that which she did not know. She was so curious to know certain mysteries that ultimately she disobeyed God's commandment and ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, (Genesis 3:6).

In a moment's moment, no longer having faith that what God had already revealed to her was sufficient, she stepped outside of God's boundaries, thwarted His authority, ignored His many blessings and sought something more, something she alone determined needed discovering. Indeed her eyes were opened, (Genesis 3:7), and she would now live out the rest of her days most likely wishing she no longer knew that which she now knew.

God was not trying to deprive Eve of something she needed. He was not trying to cheat her out of something when He commanded her to not eat of this particular tree. He simply had certain boundaries in place for her protection. We know now that not knowing about evil and of course death was to Eve’s advantage, but her curiosity tugged and pulled until she had gone too far. To be content with ‘not knowing,’ is to be content with our God in heaven who chooses to reveal or not reveal certain mysteries.

Faith! It always comes to this. Does it not? Do I have faith that there is an answer to my question? Do I have faith that should I ever need that answer God will reveal it to me? Do I have faith that God is God? Do I have faith in God?

I am reminded in several verses that God reveals many a mystery on a need-to-know basis. (Colossians 1:26) "The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints." (Romans 16:25,26) "...according to the mystery kept secret since the world began, but now has been made manifest." (Daniel 2:47) Concerning Nebuchadnezzar's dream; "The king answered Daniel and said; "Truly your God is a revealer of secrets since you could reveal this secret."

Clearly what God reveals to me is determined by Him and Him alone and has nothing to do with how hard I try to wrestle an answer out of Him. And in the case of Eve and the tree of knowledge, we see that sometimes it is more of a blessing to not know certain mysteries than it is to actually know them. This causes me to pause and wonder. How often is it that I praise God for what I do not know?

God has revealed many great and wonderful mysteries to us, mysteries which are as prolific as the garden of Eden must have been for Eve. Yet my head is often turned from those glorious mysteries revealed, to those that have not yet been revealed. For the sake of what is not, I often miss what is.

I Timothy 3:16 "And without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in Glory."

What an amazing verse, I Timothy 3:16! How is it that I continue to miss the fullness of this mystery which God has made known, this truth which showers me with blessing after blessing, day after day, moment after moment? Woe to my soul that a single intrigue could ever turn my heart and head that I might miss the fullness of this glorious mystery revealed in Christ Jesus, that is Christ Jesus. May it never be so.