why didn't God want Adam and Eve to have knowlege of life?

Question

did God just want Adam and Eve to be stupid but faithful ? isn't knowlege a good thing?

Answer 1

You still believe the story that the Chruch created? That's why THEY did not want ADAM & EVE to have knowledge, because their descendants would be able to call them on the bluff... Just like most of us are doing nowadays.

Answer 2

Actually it was the knowledge of Good and Evil that he did not want them to have. If you know right from wrong you can be held accountable for doing wrong. The US judicial system doesn't give us this freedom, ignorance doesn't leave you unaccountable.

The tree of life was there for the taking until the sin of man. If Adam and Eve ate of the tree of life after taking on the accountability of sin, then they would wind up in the same state of being as angels and Satan.
For whom their is no forgiveness of sin.

Answer 3

If you took a kit, and built a car from the ground up, would you take it out for a test drive and see if all the parts and pieces worked?
Now, you created your car with a very sophisticated computer and gave it free will.
All you asked is that it stayed in the drive way for when you needed to use it and this car left your drive way and went over several miles to your son’s garage.
What would you think of all of your hard work, your time, your labor, and now what you created wants something else?
How would that make you feel?
We were created to think for ourselves, but life depends on our relationship with Jehovah.
He is after all the one who has the right to give mankind directions on how live since he knows what is best for us and what it takes to make us truly happy.

Answer 4

He desired them to eat of the tree of life, but they chose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The knowledge of good and evil was Gods territory, man had no right to know. Just look at what it did for mankind. If they would have partaken of the tree of life in their fallen state mankind would have been doomed to eternal damnation with no way to be redeemed. This is why they were removed from the garden to protect them from their own eternal doom

Answer 5

Adam and Eve had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and were specifically told by Him not to eat from that tree. When Eve was tempted by Satan, she told him that God warned her not to eat from that tree. Thus, she was not stupid or forgetful. The words of the Lord came back to her, yet she DISOBEYED and ate the fruit anyway. That was her sin.

Answer 6

God always intended for them to have that knowledge. Otherwise we would never know what is "good" unless we experienced "bad." Otherwise God would not have needed to create the world outside of the garden that they were cast out into!

Since he had already made that world....then he meant for them to have that knowledge from the beginning.

Answer 7

God gave the knowledge to Adam about every creation (but God knows best)... he knew things you will never know...

Answer 8

Usually when you try to suppress the population the first thing you restrict is knowledge.

Communist nations control the press, slave owners kept slaves from reading, and God kept knowledge from Adam and Eve.

Once they got knowledge I'm not so sure they didn't leave on their own!

Answer 9

Since religion relies on ignorance, it encourages blind obedience over the search for knowledge, which may contradict its magic (if you know what makes rainbows work, you know the biblical myth about rainbows is false)


Just like the priests of old kept writing from the general population...

Answer 10

Apparently not. Religion has been trying to halt the progression of knowledge for centuries. Look at Galileo.