good question. did eating of the tree make us like God, with knowlage?

Question

Genesis 3-22 says this. why does all the christians say that, when we ate from the tree, we were seperated from God and becoame sinners, the tree made us like him. or did I read this wrong.....???

it says be hold the man is become on of us (God the father and son) to know good and evil. forbid them( in my eyes)( im the only one wise enough to grasp the knowlage) if they put there hand on the tree of life, and eat and live forever i for bid, .....laa laaa so I cast them out,

Answer 1

According to lore, since we have eaten from the tree we are as Gods. That is why the god kicked man out of Eden so he couldn't become immortal too.

The only thing that seperates man from god is longevity.

and religious leaders.

Answer 2

God had a plan and I think Adam and Eve would have eaten from the tree eventually, but the sin was that they listened to Satan instead of following what God said. Partaking of the fruit was just the beginning of the plan. Before Adam and Eve ate the fruit they were like children, innocent and knowling little, but when they ate the fruit they became as God, knowing good and evil, but they also had to experience mortal life on earth, not in the paradisical state of the garden. So they were cast out of God's presence to gain this experience, and through the decisions they made, they were able to return to God. We follow a similar pattern. We're sent here from God's presense, and we're born knowing very little as children, but then we grow and gain knowledge and we can return to live with God if we make the right decisions. This was the purpose of the creation, so that we could become like God.

Answer 3

You read it correctly, but with a slight misunderstanding. We were perfect and we didn't have knowledge about evil. Adam and Eve understood right and wrong, so when they ate from the tree of knowledge, now they knew about good and bad. If they remained faithful, we would be living forever without pain and suffering and death.

We did become sinners the minute both Adam and Eve ate, however, if Adam didn't eat, then the human family would have been ok and there wouldn't be any need for a messiah. Jesus came down to undo what Adam did. A perfect man for a perfect man.

Answer 4

It means that man because I his defying God Sinned which made us separate from God because God is without sin. And It Says in Genesis 3 God took the man and the woman out of the garden because they ate of the tree and and God said they have become like us knowing what is good and what is bad. That is how we became as God because now we can think we can say what is right and what is wrong, but God is the only judge of that. I hope that helped.

Answer 5

Eating of the tree did give Eve and Adam additional knowledge - an understanding of good and evil that God did not intend they have yet. But it did not make them "like God". They were already like God when they were created. That they needed to somehow change or grow to be "like God" was a lie told by satan.

Answer 6

After partaking of the tree of knowledge, mankind became like unto G-D in the fact that then and there man knew the difference between right and wrong, day and night, left and right and all the rest that has followed ever since. BUT, thanks to G-D, mankind did not partake of the tree of life, so that mankind would not live eternally like G-D with all of the capabilities of G-D and wreck havoc with the universe! Not only that, but man didn't take ALL of the tree of knowledge, henceforth, man isn't anywhere as intelligent as The Almighty is.

Answer 7

just my interpretation, i don't think the story was meant to be taken literally, but i think it was written in an effort to explain how we some how "cheated" our way out of the food chain (brings new meaning to "it must have been something you ate" : P) and that opened a whole pandora's box - sorry to be mixing mythologies on ya! - of problems, including pain of childbirth (the other animals hurt too, but for people it's a big deal) and being separate from god (as in the other animals know and feel their place and purpose in the world, but we have to use religion to reconnect with god). the whole story for me is about how we must get back to nature to understand what why we are here, that there is god in the natural order of things. there are no "sinners" among the animals, only a natural balance in each to do that which is necessary for survival. not to get all planet of the apes here, but remember the line "man is the only animal who kills for sport"?

edit: when god is right, he's right! we don't exactly handle power very well and we haven't exactly done great things for the balance of nature - pollution, overpopulation, the whole rain forest/ozone layer thing . . . .

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Answer 8

when Adam and Eve sinned, they broke that direct connection with God, as they brought sin to humanity, gaining a sinful nature. Since God created everything to produce after its own kind, the sinful nature passed onto the rest of humanity.

eating of the tree had a consequence: we gained the knowledge of GOOD and EVIL. Not intellect or knowledge of the physical, we already had those capailities, but a conscience.

Answer 9

You read it wrong - the serpent told Eve it would make her 'like' God, in the respect that they would know good and evil. Not the same as being exactly like God.

What is implied is that Adam & Eve did not know evil, therefore innocent.

And remember that the one who told Eve this was a deceiver, therefore probably not telling the whole truth.

Answer 10

Nope you read it wrong, it actually say that the serpent said we would be like God knowing good and evil. We do know good and evil, but do not understand them. What made us sinners is disobedience to the command of God.