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2007-06-01 18:13:33 · 15 answers · asked by RX 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ignoring the incredibly bad grammar....
God -- per the Bible -- did not want Adam to eat from the "Tree of Knowledge" because "he" was afraid that said knowledge would give him more power than he was capable of handling. In the "Garden of Eden" story we learn that this knowledge did in fact cause his "demise."
Interestingly enough, even in our "freedom of speech" country, we see a great deal of time, effort and money used to prevent knowledge from being distributed or broadcast to the masses.
2007-06-01 18:25:44 · answer #1 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing in the Bible that says God did not want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge.
2007-06-02 01:19:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The testing tree was the Tree of Knowlege of Good and Evil, not the Tree of Knowledge. (I heard an artist on TV grt mixed up on the name of the treeGod told them to stay away from, too.) It was a simple test to see if they loved and obeyed God or not. (God told Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge every day, so they would live forever... That's why they had to leave the Garden of Eden, so they wouldn't be able to continue eating from the Tree of Life and be immortal sinners.
2007-06-02 01:19:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God DID want Adam AND Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge. Obviously He did. He put it in the garden deliberately and knew the result in advance, as He knows all things. If He didn't want them to know good and evil, he would have made the tree a harmless fruit tree and tested them with that. It's common sense.
2007-06-02 01:19:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't take the story literally. IMO, eating of the tree is symbolic for humans becoming rational/moral thinkers and not acting on pure animal instincts. Having the Adam and Eve story was to somehow help us understand that we are/were supposed to be above animals who simply act on instinct. We gained this knowledge when we took a big risk (eating the forbidden fruit). IMO, anyways.
2007-06-02 01:22:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God knew that when Adam and Eve ate of the "forbidden" fruit, that they would not only know of both good and evil, but become mortal (and thus would have to leave Eden) as well, and that bad things would happen to them. As a loving father, God certainly didn't want that to happen, just like any good parent would want to take care of their children and shelter them from harm.
2007-06-02 05:15:46 · answer #6 · answered by Rynok 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a test of free will. God gave man (Adam & Eve) free will when he created them and to test if they would listen to their master and creator or do whatever they wanted, he told them NOT to eat from the tree. Obviously, as the story of Genesis goes, they failed miserably.
2007-06-02 01:19:30 · answer #7 · answered by koiboy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because man was better off not having any knowledge whatsoever lol...wel really because the tree revealed sin..and sinning is a horrible thing to do..so you can blame Adam for al the evil in this world...like Atheists
2007-06-02 01:22:19 · answer #8 · answered by jlcrit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a metaphor for do not question, its the same with Thomas and others. Do not question because you may just find its all nonsense.
As for evil coming from questioning. It is the complete reverse. How many people have been led into evil acts because they did not question. Lets have a list - the followers of Hitler, Starlin, Armin, the Inquisition, the French revolution and so on....
So many people - so few questions about what they believed
2007-06-02 01:23:52 · answer #9 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden were created perfect, innocent. They had no sin. They knew no sin. They knew nothing of Satan...of evil...of sin...darkness.
The Tree of Knowledge held all light and dark knowledge. God KNEW eating of the fruit...would strip away their innocence, their purity, & expose them to Satan and his demons who had been emprisoned in the underworld...in darkness.
Like all loving fathers, God wanted to protect them & spare them.
2007-06-02 01:24:12 · answer #10 · answered by faith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋