2007-02-21 01:21:46 · 13 answers · asked by ~Soy Yo~ 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Eve ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge because, prior to eating it, she had no knowledge of good or evil. She didn't know what evil was so she didn't know that it was wrong to eat the fruit. Even though God told Adam not to eat it, without knowledge of good or evil, it would have been impossible to understand why going against God's will was wrong. There was no wrong or right.
It appears that the tree was placed in the Garden as a temptation, for people who didn't know right from wrong. That would be the same as putting antifreeze in a babies bottle, telling her not to drink out of it and then putting it in her crib. Is the baby responsible for its death?
2007-02-21 01:30:59 · answer #1 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The story of the garden of Eden was an allagory about human evolution from a hunter/gatherer to an agricultural being.
Think about it. The most primitive people are hunter-gatherers...Adam and Eve before the fruit.
The next stage is hunter-gardener. Women learn how to plant the items they previously gathered closer to their shelters as a matter of safety. Eve takes the fruit of the garden and sees it as good.
The next stage is when early hands that knowledge over to the men, and they become full agriculturalists, growing vast fields of wheat and other grains. "Eat of dust all the days of his life". This is when Eve gave the fruit of Wisdom to Adam. Mankind becomes a toiler, then, looking forward into the future rather than hunting every few days. Where he once sat back and thought of nothing while his belly was full, he now had to think days, even years, into the future.
And mankind never let woman forget it.
2007-02-21 09:31:04 · answer #2 · answered by mamasquirrel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She did not have to, The serpent being inticed by satan tempted Eve, & it was not a Fruit, Gen.2:16 Says Every tree was good for food that grew out of the ground, But the tree of knowledge of good & evil & the Tree of life was 2 laws of reprodction, Why do you think God cursed the womans reproductive organs. These 2 trees did not grow out of the ground but was in the midst, No how can you get 2 literal trees at the same place. Now I see all the thumbs down. Study it for yourself.
2007-02-21 09:30:28 · answer #3 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She could not tell good from evil before eating the fruit. What a mess it's made.
2007-02-21 09:24:48 · answer #4 · answered by (-_-) 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
She did not have to. Adam and Ever were the first and last people to have true spiritual free will. They could actually choose to follow God or to disobey. She as well as Adam chose to reject God.
2007-02-21 09:24:55 · answer #5 · answered by Solafide55 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The enemy appealed to her intellect--convincing her that she would be more of help to Adam and God if she knew more about the world she lived in--sin did not fully enter the world until Adam also ate of the tree...sigh...
2007-02-21 09:28:26 · answer #6 · answered by George A 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
She was curious and wanted to explore new ideas, however corny that sounds.
2007-02-21 09:42:21 · answer #7 · answered by TarKettle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She decided for herself coerced mind you by the devil what was good and what was evil. So it was in the beginning and so it is now. subjectivism
2007-02-21 09:28:01 · answer #8 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask the real culprit, why did god put it there in the first place.
2007-02-21 09:25:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If she didn't think how boring things would be. Its all about free will.
2007-02-21 09:24:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋