Did Adam and Eve ever get the knowledge they were seeking?

Question

Sure they ate from the tree but did that give them the knowledge, or just punish them

Answer 1

Oh, yeah. Look at the world around you. Much more advanced, wouldn't you agree? Almost like...we evolved...or something...

Answer 2

"The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil". By any measure, that's a pretty strange name for a tree — but if that's what the Bible calls it, then that's presumably what it is: It somehow conveys a "knowledge of Good and Evil", an ability to distinguish right from wrong to those who partake of its fruits.

But there's a big problem with this. In a sentence, it is this: "Why would God want to deny this knowledge to people?" Think about it. Are human beings better or worse off, for their knowledge of "good and evil"? Is knowing right from wrong an asset or a liability for humanity?

Imagine a world in which people were pretty much the same as they are now — they were smart, they could walk, they could talk, they could drive cars and become investment bankers. They were missing only one thing. They didn't know right from wrong.

We have a word for people like that. We call them sociopaths.

A person with all the faculties we associate with humanity except for the capacity to understand right and wrong is someone who could slaughter people with an axe the way you and I mow the lawn. Did God really want to create a society filled with such people? Clearly, people are better off when they know the difference between right and wrong. So why would God pretend that having such knowledge is undesirable?

The Bible says that God created Adam and Eve and put them in a beautiful garden full of trees with good fruit. However, God also created a tree that would give the eater the knowledge of good and evil - commanding Adam and Eve not to eat its fruit. Why would God create something that was banned and, specifically, why would it be a tree whose fruit offered knowledge of good and evil

Skeptics often complain that God set Adam and Eve up to fail. However, God had to give Adam and Eve a choice. Without free will to choose, Adam and Eve would have been mere puppets. True love always requires choice. God wanted Adam and Eve to choose to love and trust Him. The only way to give this choice would have been to command something that was not allowed. Since God had planted all the different trees from which we get fruit in the garden,1 the test was not too difficult. Adam and Eve had plenty to eat and could have chosen to believe God.

What would it mean to think about right and wrong in the world of Eden, in the "pre-tree" world? That, indeed, is the $64,000 question. To some extent, we are reaching beyond ourselves to even ask the question. To ask is to try and understand a world we no longer know; a world in which right and wrong looked, felt and seemed vastly different than they do now. But try we must. For the Torah suggests that it was that world which was the more genuine one. And it is to that world that we strive to return.

Uncovering the nature of right and wrong in the pristine world of Eden will be one of the central tasks before us in the weeks ahead. But before we tackle that, we need to assemble some more data. So for now, its back to the drawing board: Its time to ask ourselves, once again: What are some of the other problems the story of Adam and Eve holds out to us?

Answer 3

They did. The moment they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they realized they were naked and were ashamed.

Genesis 2:25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Genesis 3:6-11 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"

10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."

11 And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

Too much knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Answer 4

Hey! Be nice. This person asked from the standpoint assuming they existed. You don't have to be all rabid "there is no God" all the time. Chill. Why does it bother you so much?

Anyway....
Assuming they existed and ate the apple and all that jazz, I'd say yes, they got the knowledge of good and evil. A lot more options for evil were opened up to them, as well as suffering. Their son was murdered remember?

Answer 5

The minute the two of them ate that apple they changed. Adam the spirit became Adam the human being. Eve the spirit became Eve the human being. Now they know what an apple tastes like.

Answer 6

The knowledge they found punished them. A better question would be, how can God blame Adam and Eve for their flaws, since God is said to be all-knowing and perfect?

Answer 7

from what i gather that "knowledge" they discovered was the difference between good and evil. however what I learned was that by exploring or by questioning authority figures, you deserve to be punished, i firmly believe that the bible should not be exposed to anyone under the age of 18. (that goes for any religion). i dont think anyone should be told not to explore, not to discover, or not to ask why and how!

Answer 8

Look around you, is not humanity still thirsting for more and more knowledge?? Humanity is on the verge of mass awakening to their union with God in unconditional love. More and more people evey day are living on the level of spirit, one with God in unconditional love.

Answer 9

It gave them the knowledge they were seeking, it was just a whole lot more that what they bargained for.

Answer 10

Yes....when was the last time you read the story for yourself?

They immediately had the knowledge of good and evil....and were ashamed and found leaves to cover themselves. This was the moment that sin entered the world because they disobeyed God ...and death entered the world...not only physical death, but spiritual death as well because of their sin.

After that....everyone born is born with the inherited sin of Adam....and inherits eternal death as well.....so God had a plan
which He had all along....how to save them.

God wanted to have a personal relationship with his creation and He wanted them to choose to love Him. Real love is not forced...it is chosen freely....so God had a plan all along. He gave them a choice....they blew it....and then God had a plan how to save them...

He couldn't accept their sin....so He provided someone to pay the price for them....a sinless sacrifice...His own Son...to die in their place...it had to be someone who was without sin...so He sent His only Son, Jesus to die in their place....and then He said...."here is My gift to you....just confess your sin and say "I need a Savior...I will accept the gift of Your Son Who died for me"...and God promises He will forgive each person who does that...and also will forget their sin...and instead of looking at their sin...He looks at Jesus Who took their place.

It is God's gift of salvation, but also the way He provided for those who choose to love Him...which is what He wanted all along.
He says that "we love Him, because He first loved us".

Read John 3:16 in the Bible which is His Word to us. It was a simple plan....and sometimes sounds so simple it is hard to accept...but it is His truth. And when we accept His gift, He enters our lives and changes them....because now we have become His child.

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Answer 11

The knowledge was of good and evil. When they performed coitus with snakes now they knew it was evil. Before they ate the fruit they thought it was ok.