So many good questions. ...
Don't know.
Yes.
Yes.
Loss of their own power.
Yes.
Now thats a puzzle.
2007-07-06 01:02:57
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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If you gave your children everything they would need such as plentiful good and wholesome food, good splendid home, beautiful scenery, heart fulfilling work, the prospect of everlasting life in a paradisiac world and you gave all the love you had showering over them and in return they betrayed and disowned you over one small requirement of respect to their parent. That is what Adam and Eve selfishly done to God.
You can bleat all you need to all day about how you are so right and how we are all so wrong but the Bible is not a book just made up on a desktop publisher, it has true history and writings that date back to the times that archaeologists study and they know the Bible knows it stuff very well.
The Bible had the knowledge when other popular beliefs in those times of scriptural writings were completely different.
The Bible taught the earth as circle it hangs on nothingness.
There are biblical laws that practice quarantine and hygiene that science took many centuries later to figure out.
The earth's water cycle.
Even with the circumcision of the newborn Jewish babies of 8 days old was when vitamin K a chief help in the clotting agent of blood was highest when the baby was 8 days old.
Did you ever research into these facts?
No!
Why, because you have some personal bias about religion and you want to spread your anti-christian pseudo reasoning's to others yet your very questions you portray as infallibly stumping the Bible shows honestly what little knowledge you have of what you are attacking.
2007-07-06 03:22:08
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answered by Anonymous
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"Why wouldn't a creator wish for his creations to learn as much as they could?"
Because mankind could not handle all of that knowledge since it included knowledge of evil as well as good. It's like knowledge of atomic theory. When it is used to produce electricity then it's being used for good. When it's used to create bombs that indiscriminately wipe out large groups of people it's being used for evil.
The tree was put there as a test to see if Adam and Eve would obey God. Obviously He knew that they would fail the test and even allowed Satan to be the author of that failure. All I can guess is that God has an overarching plan that will produce greater eternal good at the cost of the relatively short span of misery that we now live in.
2007-07-06 01:57:50
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answered by Martin S 7
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Thats why i believe religion keeps the people stupid.There is a whole world of possibilities out there but you have to confine yourself to such narrow-minded laws.
I think its a brilliant question and its interesting how some christians suddenly talk abt respecting their religious views when they have no answer to the question.Suddenly a question about knowledge becomes an answer about obedience..;-/
2007-07-06 01:24:31
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answered by chryshal 4
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All good questions. But we have to remember that God is God and wants his creation to understand that. He's the one that makes the rules, it's up to us to follow them. The question isn't whether or not God wants us to learn all we could, but when he wants us to reveal knowledge to us. The tree is a metaphor for control. God said don't so, we as his creation, shouldn't. Your last question is also good, and I've asked myself that very question. All the other fruits in the garden were meant for eating, and that's what a fruit is made for. I don't know if we'll ever get an answer for that question.
2007-07-06 01:08:55
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answered by gorillaman23 1
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Yeah, since when is knowledge a bad thing. One god wanted to keep us a slave mentality and unlearned. The other god loved his children he lab mixed and brought into the world and gave us knowledge. There are definitely 2 "gods" involved here. One wanted to destroy the human race and mostly succeded in the flood. The other god had to sneak around and save who he could and that was Noah/Utnapishtim. Kinda makes sense now, doesn't it?
2007-07-06 01:03:23
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answered by Anonymous
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The tree interior the Biblical myth tale exchange into the "Tree of wisdom of excellent and Evil." it somewhat is considerable observe the finished call, as a results of fact of here question: If Adam and Eve had no longer yet eaten from the Tree of wisdom of excellent and Evil, then they does not have hassle-free it exchange into "evil" to disobey god. it could have been in basic terms while that they had eaten of the tree that they might have found out it exchange into "evil" to disobey god. so as they had no way of understanding they have been doing incorrect till while they committed the incorrect that god punished them for by throwing them out of the backyard of Eden. seems finally very very unfair. lots for introduction myths.
2016-10-01 00:26:44
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answered by ? 4
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I would tend to agree. I always saw the story of the tree as being a warning to people - too much knowledge is bad for you. Just do as you're told, and you'll be fine. This theme is repeated throughout the bible - "Don't reason, just have faith." "God works in mysterious ways."
2007-07-06 00:59:57
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answered by ReeRee 6
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If God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat of it, why did he plant it there in the first place? If he knows everything, he would've known they would eat it. Wouldn't he also be responsible for tempting them in the first place? Doesn't putting it there then saying, "Don't eat of it" make it even more tempting to begin with?
2007-07-06 02:42:52
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answered by The Doctor 7
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These are all brilliant questions and I hope somebody religious will try and answer. To me, an atheist, the answer lies in the fact that christianity is not about being good and ressourceful and educated, it's about suffering, shame and guilt. That. by the way, is why I'm an atheist.
2007-07-06 01:03:19
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answered by Lotte T 3
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If you go back and re-read the details in Genesis 3, you will see that the tree was NOT the Tree of Knowledge, and so had nothing to do with education or learning. Rather it was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and had to do with moral decisions.
Best way I have found to explain it is to compare it to sex. When a child is born, they have all the "parts" needed for sex. But they lack the physical and emotional maturity at that point to be able to use them. They have a lot of growing to do before they are ready to understand the concept. More maturing to do before they begin to develop the "urges" for it. And normally still more maturing to do before they are ready to experience it.
No parent wants their 3 year to experience sex. They are not ready for it yet. At that age it would be a rape, molestation, or other crime. But at the same time, if your child has grown to be 30 and is still living at home in the basement scared of "girls", you would wonder what is wrong with him.
There comes a point in a persons life when they are ready for the pleasures and initimacy of sex. Before that time, having it forced on them would be damaging.
Just as God created baies with "all the parts", but not yet the maturity to use them, so in the garden he placed "all the parts" needed to understand good and evil, and to be able to make moral choices. But just as babies are not intended to have sex, so the newly formed humans were intended to have the moral understanding...yet.
It is not that man ate the fruit. It was there with the intent that man would eat it. But not until he was mature enough to handle it. God warned him that if he ate of the fruit, it would damage him. He was not yet ready for that knowledge of morality.
Had he obeyed God, there would have come a time when he would have been ready to handle that knowledge. And it would have been a source of pleasure and blessing for both man and God. He would have matured to where he would be able to understand the choices before him, and be able to make the right ones evey time.
But because he ate of the fruit too soon, it released within himself (and all his descendants) the understanding of how to make moral choices without the maturity to do them properly. The results can be seen all around us in the dumb, immoral, damaging and selfish decisions people make every day.
So the Tree has nothing to do with "education". It has to do with the maturity needed to make right decisions. And an understanding (education) of the world around us would be helpful in making the correct moral decisions. That is one of the reason why the Christian church has always placed a high value on education.
The Christian church was the only source of schooling for much of the world for over 1000 years. The Christian church was the only source of schooling for the American nation for the first 100 years of its existence. The Christian church still operated more schools worldwide then all the governments put to get. People forget that both Havard and Yale began as Christian colleges for educating ministers.
So the idea that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is somehow anti-education is not found anywhere in the scriptures.
2007-07-06 01:37:11
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answered by dewcoons 7
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