In the Jewish creation Myth? Why (or for who) did Yahhew create the tree of knowledge ?

Question

Did he have plan or purpose for the tree?

Answer 1

According to the Gnostics, Jehovah (called Yaldaboath by the Gnostics) did not create it. Zoe, the daughter of Wisdom, (an emanation of the true God) was hiding from Jehovah in the Garden. She winds up hiding in the Tree of Gnosis. Jehovah finds out that she is hiding in the tree and forbids A&E from eating from it. The serpent is actually the hero in the story and some Gnostic texts claim that the serpent is actually Christ, the only begotten son of the true Father sent along with Zoe to redeem Wisdom, who sinned against the Father when she created Jehovah. From here the story is as it is in the OT. If you read the story very carefully, notice who tells the lie and who tells the whole truth. It is not who you have been told it is.

Answer 2

The trouble is that you don't seem to understand the full implication of the word Myth. If the story is a Myth - which I believe it is - then you can't then go treating items of the myth as if they had a metaphysical significance in isolation to the rest of the story.

This question looks like an attempt to trap fundamentalists into some sort of awkward argument but sadly it will do nothing but betray ignorance of the purpose of the story - remember Myth denotes truth - though not necessarily literal truth.

Answer 3

Adam possess all the knowledge he needed, and the intelligence. He only lack one piece of knowledge, the experience of sin. Once experience, his brain expanded on the subject. The only think for ones to be concerned about now is the Tree of Life.

Answer 4

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the downside of freewill. They were told not to eat the fruit of it.

Freewill is fine as long as you trust God entirely, like a young child trusts a good parent. But if you doubt God, as "Adam and Eve" did, because of the whispering insinuations of Satan, freewill becomes a curse, because you realise you are responsible for the results of every action and every decision you will ever make, an awesome responsibility.

Answer 5

Is the spelling right? I thought Yahoo was the tree of knowledge.

Incidentally, brianinch has answered a question for me. The reason some people believe in God is that they are scared to make decisions for themselves? F~ck that.

Answer 6

I do not have an answer yet, but I promise to ask. I wish you would consider that perhaps myth is incorrect.

Answer 7

I believe He wants mankind to be intelligent.
I Cr 13;8a

Answer 8

Maybe as a test-

Answer 9

nice...