Why does no one know what the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" is, not even the religious?

Answer 1

It wasn't about the tree...it was about the fact that they defied the orders of God...which ultimately led them to sin...

It was never about the tree...but about the action and negligence to obey God that led to the fall of man....

The fruit possessed nothing special....it was about the action of sin that took man into a curse of being born into sin...

That is the point of the tree....the tree was the place of manipulation...but the act was the sin....

The tree was just a tree....but it was labeled the tree of knowledge of good and evil because it was a designated place that possessed an option....

Answer 2

The bible speaks of the tree of knowledge in the book of Genesis. What many fail to realize that the same book speaks of two trees in the Garden of Eden, the other being the tree of Life.

We hear so much about the former because partaking of its fruit was the trigger point for the fall of mankind and the entry of imperfection into God's perfect creation of the universe.

What this tree was is not certain; there are various conjectures about it, and nothing else can be come at concerning it. Some take it to be the fig tree, as Jarchi, and some in Aben Ezra on Gen_3:6 because fig leaves were at hand, and immediately made use of on eating the fruit of it; some the vine, and particularly the black grape, as in the book of Zohar (d); others, as Baal Hatturim on Gen_1:29 the pome citron, or citron apple tree (e); others, the common apple, as the author of the old Nizzechon (f), and which is the vulgar notion; evil and an apple being called by the same Latin word "malum": in the Talmud (g), some say it was the vine, some the fig tree, and others wheat (h): the Mahometans say it was a tree, called by the Africans by the name of Musa (i).

(d) In Exod. fol. 59. 4. & in Numb. fol. 53. 3. So in Bereshit Rabba, sect. 12. fol. 155. 2. (e) Vid. Caphtor Uperah, fol. 49. 1. & 60. 2. & 63. 2. (f) P. 147. Ed. Wagenseil. (g) T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 40. 1. & Sanhedrin, fol. 70. 1. 2. So in Tzeror Hammor, fol. 15. 2. Tikkune Zohar correct. 24. fol. 68. (h) Vid. Bartenora in Misn. Roshhashanah, c. 1. sect. 2. (i) Leo. African. Desriptio Africae, c. 9. p. 772.

Answer 3

Those who have open hearts to the CREATOR do know or will know. Some evil but wise do also know. Those of closed minds and hearts and who fear going against the traditional may possibly not ever know - it is a lot to take in to discover all that you have been led to believe is a lie. To understand that only the evil god brought the tower of babel to cause confusion- and the ancient is evil yaldaboathe is not what most are aware of - they dare not consider any of this, but if they are able to use some of the blessings the immeasurable CREATOR granted - they will know and see and understand and be humbled and thankful - knowing their own spirit is granted knowledge through THE MOST HIGH CREATOR.....

Answer 4

~~~space,,,, Because religions have lost the meanings behind their own Symbols. The Tree of Knowledge in christianity is the very same "Tree of Immortality" that their saviour was crucified on. It is also the same tree, The Bo(or bodhi) Tree, in the Buddha story. On the contrary, it is very "religious".

Answer 5

I respectfully beg to differ. I am studied for over 35 years in the original manuscripts, and can tell you from the footnotes who the tree of the knowledge of good/evil is: It is satan himself.
The reason he showed up in the Garden was simple: It was Satan's first attempt (in this flesh age) to pollute the pure bloodline that thru Eve, and down the generations, womb-to-womb, would come the Christ Child. How did he try to pollute it? He had sexual relations with Eve.
God told Eve He would multiply her conception;
he did - multiplied by 2; she was pregnant with twins; one pregancy of two separate fathers;
Abel was Adams son; Cain was Satans son.
Where you read that Eve bare a son Cain and then again bare a son Abel, actually in the manuscripts the word "again" is really "continued in labor", meaning she had Cain, continued in her labor and bare Abel. What does it mean when you have a child and your labor continues and then another child comes? twins, of course. This is why Cain and Abel gave their offerings to God at the exact same time: they came to the age of accountability at the exact same time: twins.
If you have a problem with this, go to Genesis 5:1 where its listed the complete geneology of Adam. You won't find Cain listed there, because Cain simply was not Adams son.
This was the bitterness between the two brothers.
The Tree of Life in the Garden was Christ, by the way.
Okay, so anyway, Cain is thrown out of the Garden, and God places a mark on him. It was the mark of his father, the devil. Ever hear of the "mark of the beast"? Well, this is its beginning right here on Cain.
Cain had lots of decendants, called Kenites (means "sons of Cain") and they even made it thru the flood of Noah; you will find them alive and well and doing scribe-work for the tribe of Judah in 1Chronicles 2:55; and yes, they are the decendants of satan, and yes, they are on the earth today. This is why the events in the Garden are so important, and why its very important that people be told the truth, not a lie about God being angry because Eve ate fruit.
Thats utterly ridiculous, and its taught in Sunday schools all across this country and beyond.
Its no wonder people don't understand the Bible; how can they when they start out with lies and nonsense?
In 35 years I have found one (1) church that teaches the truth of what really happened in the Garden of Eden. One. What does that tell you?


P.S. LOOK AT THE ANSWERS YOU'VE RECEIVED; PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE BOOK SAYS, EVEN THOSE WHO DO GO TO "CHURCH". ITS UNBELIEVALBE.

Answer 6

It is a metaphor in an ancient piece of literature. That is like asking what Icarus' wings are. They're nothing. They might represent something that is open to subjective interpretation. For every person, there are countless possible interpretations. One of the most commonly accepted is that the tree represents the ability to differentiate between right and wrong. Another holds that it represents independent, rational thought. Whatever it represents, it is represented as a forbidden thing, something that will bring about your downfall, and for this reason, I see it in the context of the Bible as representative of independent, rational thought, which will be depicted as rebellious and the path to ruin by anyone who is writing with an agenda to promote. Believe and obey, or suffer. That's what the Eden story says. It says a lot of other things too, about women particularly, but as Frank Zappa put it, mostly it's saying, "Get smart, get f---ed."

Answer 7

I'm not a Cristian so what i think it means is that people unlike animals have morals namely the ability to see something from their point of view as good or evil if someone cant realize the difference between good and evil then they probably go to heaven
like some sort of a free pas :)

Answer 8

The "tree of knowledge of good and bad" became a symbol of God's right to determine or set the standards for man as to what is "good" (approved by God) and what is "bad" (condemned by God). It thus constituted a test of man's respect for his Creator's position and his willingness to remain within the area of freedom decreed by God, an area that was by no means cramped and that allowed for the greatest enjoyment of human life. Therefore, to violate the boundaries of the prohibited area by eating of "the tree of knowledge of good and bad" would be an invasion of or revolt against God's domain and authority.

Answer 9

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil contains the spirit of Zoe, daughter of Sophia (Wisdom). Zoe was sent to the garden by the true Father to awaken Adam from his sleep (ignorance). Yaldaboath (Yahweh) discovers that the spirit of Zoe is hiding in Eve and sends his angels to deal with the problem. Yaldaboath attempts to rape Eve, when this happens the spirit of Zoe leaves Eve and enter the Tree of Knowledge. When Yaldaboath discovers that Zoe has entered the tree, he forbids Adam and Eve from eating from it. As daughter of Wisdom, Zoe has knowledge of truth.

In the story, Adam and Eve live in ignorance of the truth of good and evil. One side, Yaldaboath, wants that knowledge suppressed. The other side, represented by the tree (Zoe) and the serpent, wants that knowledge revealed. Who has the most to lose if the knowledge of good and evil is revealed? The one who is seen as evil?

Notice that the story states that A&E's eyes were opened to the truth of good and evil. What did they do then? They hid from Yaldaboath out of fear.

The story never states that A&E are banished from the garden because they disobeyed god. It states that they were banished so that they could not eat from the Tree of Life, at which point they would become as gods. Yaldaboath banishes them and places guards around the garden to prevent that from happening.

The flood wasn't to get rid of wickedness, it was to get rid of the knowledge that A&E had unleashed on the earth. Why would people who had direct knowledge of "god" disobey him? Could it be that they had knowledge of his true identity? Noah was chosen to build the ark because he lived in ignorance of the true nature of Yaldaboath. The true Father sent angels prior to the flood to warn people, including Noah's wife Norea, and give them instructions to hide in a cave where they would be protected. These people are keepers of the knowledge, or the Gnostics.

Answer 10

Because it doesn't matter.

Let's look at it this way....

Obviously, there was only ONE tree in the garden that they couldn't eat from, once they did, there was no more need for the tree. Right? So God probably destroyed it, or it just died off and never reproduced.

Who cares. This is truely ancient history.