Tree of Knowledge?

Question

God created the tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden, right? Then he forbids the eating of its fruit. When Adam and Eve did eat, it gave them knowledge. With God forbidding the eating of this fruit, does he not want us to have knowledge? Or just not the knowledge between good and evil? And if not the knowledge between good and evil, why do Christians (other religions as well, I know) feel they need to teach people right from wrong? Isn't that against God's implied command?

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Answer 1

Adam and Eve already had the knowledge of Good. God created them with all the Good Knowledge. he created the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil because of the Devil. Its not that God does not want you to have knowledge, it was just one law that he gave to Adam and Eve.

of course, the devil was saying as he still says today, "I can turn any one from God. I can make any one spit in Gods face."

Look at what is happening to the United States. They are removing God from the schools, the White house, Congress is saying its unconstitutional to have God. then the United States gets attacked, and people blame God for the attack? Its not Gods fault!

Answer 2

The Tree was put in the Garden so that Man would have a choice to make. The choice before them was to serve God through obedience, or to not serve Him and eat of the tree. Note that of all the myriad trees in the Garden, including the Tree of Life, there were two trees, the Tree of Life and the Tree of KOGE that were unique. They were not a type of tree, they were singular trees, and their was only one of each. Adam and Eve were free to eat of all the trees in the Garden except the one of KOGE. Man's free will is this, and ONLY this: Choose you this day whom you will serve. THAT'S IT. The only free will choice anyone makes is made every day, and it's this one. Everything that happens after that is aftermath. If you choose to serve Him, you're expected to behave in a particular way. Note that following such behavior does NOT mean you've chosen to serve Him! Motive is everything! Do right because it's right, not because you'll get in trouble if you don't. If you choose not to serve, it doesn't matter what you do, good or bad. I refer you again to MOTIVE. Knowing the potential dangers, and acting as a representative for all mankind, Adam chose to sin. Why is a matter of much debate, and no doubt there were many reasons for it. But the first sin was not Eve eating the apple, nor Adam eating the apple, nor the serpent (the Devil in disguise) tempting them into eating, the first sin was in choosing not to obey God. Even had something prevented them from eating, they sinned the moment they made the choice to sin. It's not that God didn't want us to have knowledge. This was all in His plan the entire time, because there's a much larger plan at work, still at work now, and due for completion in the not-distant future. More on that if you want it.

Answer 3

Hi,
You need to study the Serpent Seed Doctrine to understand what the Tree of Knowledge was. It was not a fruit tree, and it wasn't growing apples. It was Satan himself, and the fruit was sex with Eve. I know you probably haven't heard that before, so now you hear it for the first time. Satan had sex with Eve before Adam did. After that Adam has sex with Eve resulting in the birth of fraternal twins. That would be Cain and Able. Cain was Satan's' son, and is not listed in the lineage of Adam. This truth has been scrubed out of most Christian churches, and the whole "Apple story" is just a concocted story. Read the parable of the Wheat and Tares, and you'll learn that Satan was the sower of the Tares. For those of you on this board that don't know what that means, I'll make it this clear. Satan has living offspring on Earth. They are everywhere, and Jesus called the Pharisees sons of Vipers. He couldn't do that unless they were in fact Satan's' offspring. Dig a little deeper into Scripture and you understand why this planet is in such dire straights. Sometimes the truth hurts, but it will also set you free. Open your eyes to whats really going on here, and you'll understand why there was a flood at Noah's time, and why there will be Armageddon. We are at war whether you realize it or not.

Answer 4

God didn't want his innocent children to know about Good and Evil, because all we knew was Good. But Adam and Eve changed that so now we do know about Good and Evil. Everyone Does. So Christians try to teach people right from wrong. That's not agaisnst God's implied Command anymore because things changed, and we are now exposed to that "Knowledge".

Answer 5

It does seem strange that eating from a tree that gave knowledge would be considered a sin by God.

There used to be a sect called "Ophites" that believed that Jehovah, (who created humans), was not actually the ultimate God. They believed that Jehovah either was ignorant of the fact that there were greater beings than him, or that he was aware of the fact and had just lied to Adam and Eve.

The Ophites believed that the snake was actually the true God, the God that was above Jehovah. They thought that the real supreme God had felt pity for Jehovah's play-things and that the supreme God had come to Adam and Eve in the shape of the serpent to tell them how to free themselves from Jehovah's tyranny.

The Ophites thought that the physical world was a corrupt and error filled creation that Jehovah had made. To the Ophites, salvation was won by escaping from Jehovah's corrupt creation and joining with the true supreme God.

Obviously, this belief didn't make the Ophites very popular with Christians who held more orthodox views.

Answer 6

Think of it this way...
Whenever a child is born, that child has all the "parts" needed for sexual activity. But the child is not physically, mentally or emotionally ready to understand and use them. It has a lot of growing and maturing to do before the child is ready for that knowledge and experience. But there comes a time when they will be ready, and when if they do NOT experience it, you would wonder what is srong with them.

Until they are ready, we have rules and laws in place to protect them. A child exposed to sex before they are ready for it can be damaged for life. As a parent, you should want to protect their innocence until they are old enough.

God placed in the Tree in the Garden at the beginning, just as he placed the "parts" on babies at their beginning. But the first humans were not yet physically, mentally or emotionally ready to experience good and evil. They need to do a lot of maturing first. So God placed the Tree off limits until the time they were ready. He know that if they experienced Good and Evil before they were ready to properly handle it, it woul d damage them - cause them to die.

Eventually, when Adam and Eve had matured to where they could understand themselve, God, and the world around, to where they could understand the consequences of actions and the right decisions to make, then they would have been ready to eat the fruit. They would have had the maturity to handle Good and Evil.

Instead, by eating before they were ready, they released Good and Evil into the world before they - or their descendents - where ready to handle it. And it has been damaging and killing people every since.

It is not that God did not want them to have knowledge. It is that he wanted them to wait until they were ready for the knowledge before experiencing it.

Answer 7

It is not that God did not want Adam and Eve to ever have knowledge, but it was to be at a time in which God picked. They were to obey God, and in Gods time, he would reveal what needed to be revealed. This was the original way, when Adam and Eve where sinless. Eating the fruit, brought out sin and we have been cursed since. Our greatest curse is death, but Christ Jesus defeated death when he died and rose again. So since he did that and there is once again hope for eternal life, yes, Jesus instructed us to go out and tell the world the good news. The goods new of salvation through Christ also involves telling of the evil ways of Satan, so yes, we teach what is right (God) and what is wrong (Satan).

Answer 8

The bible shouldn't be relied upon for it's truth value, and especially not Genesis. The story of Genesis was written long, long ago by storytellers as an attempt to explain why we are here on the earth and how we came to be. But, it's wrong, and was never intended to be taken literally. Science today and common sense completely refute the idea of any Adam or Eve; it's simply a story.
Besides, you shouldn't believe whatever you read in the bible. It has been passed down through more than 2000 years of being edited and added to by scribes and scholars with their own anecdotes to add, and has been mistranslated into other languages and back again. It isn't something to be trusted for it's truth value.

Answer 9

The fact that God allowed Eve to be tempted into eating the fruit, before she had a knowledge of Good or evil, shows that God wanted humans to eat it. She was not equipped to withstand the temptation, and millions of humans are suffering an eternal life of torture as a result?

God is cruel, or the story is made up.

Answer 10

Very good question. Most stories in the Bible do not make much sense. Maybe the knowledge is not about good and evil. It is about the birds and the bees. The bible writer dared not spell it out.

Religions always blame women for bad things, because all the bible writers were men. If it was really the tree of knowledge, we should all thank Eve. She is the smart one. Adam is just as dumb as a jackfruit.