So what your saying is Adam and Eve had no knowledge of right and wrong?

Question

prior to eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge?
So why would a just god punish them for doing something they did not know was wrong? Would that not be the same as if my 9month old baby threw her bottle and hit me and then I spanked her? What kind of father would I be?

But Eve was as a baby and I can say to my child do not throw the bottle and she will undersand not. the same with Eve she had no knowledge of what is wrong therefor she could not understand it was wrong to go against god.

Answer 1

No, it would not be like spanking your child for throwing a bottle at you.

It would be like flaying your child alive for throwing the bottle at you, then after your child grows up and has children, flaying them, too, then flaying all their children, then only offering reprieve only if they kill animals for you. Then after you get tired of the blood sacrifices, doing a mock "oooo, look I'm human, I'll 'sacrifice' myself to you", then, of course, not really dying, then flaying the children based on whether they believe the nonsense or not.

But, of course, perhaps I've stretched the metaphor a bit far by this point.

Answer 2

They knew right and wrong. God told them what he wanted. They chose to believe the serpent to their detriment.

We can tell by the text that they knew right and wrong. They were basically only told not to do one thing as far as we know. They were told the consequences beforehand. Who knows exactly what the tree of knowledge of good and evil was for sure, but we can read about the result of the disobedience. As long as there was no sin, there was no hard work, separation from God (he walked with them in the garden), no disasters, no worries. After sin entered the world, the people knew all of these things, so that could be the "knowledge of good and evil".

No, it isn't the same as your baby throwing a bottle and you punishing her for it. Your baby doesn't understand right and wrong. Adam and Eve did.

Answer 3

You can't compare the 9 mon old baby with perfect grown up adults. You can't even compare yourself to them. They knew what the consepuence was if they ate the fruit (death). Adam & Eve have a perfect mind but they were inexperienced. Eve got tricked (Adam was deliberately sin) because they love to have power and be like God; so they might have thought of not needing to rely on God. Big mistake!

Satan has done a great job convincing two perfect humans to sin against God. The lie that Satan used on Adam & Eve is very effective, 99.9% of mankinds today still believing it. These 99.9% of the people world wide continue believing that once they die they will become God like and have power like God. Happy are those that listen and obey God and believe the fact.

Facts:

When we die, we are ceased to exist. --Eccl 9:5, 6, 10.

Who gets to go to heaven? only 144,000. --James 1:18; Rev 14:1-20.

The rest of mankinds? living on earth. --Psalms 37:9-11, 29; Isaiah 65:21-25.

Answer 4

Everything comes from God, this means good and evil are present in God, but Him is not affected by either one. We as part and parcel of God, a small example of God, we become subjected to be covered by this dualities(material illusory energy of God), by miss using our small free will. Adam and Eve disobeyed the order of God because they wanted to taste the fruit of enjoyment(from the tree of knowledge), and they were punished for that, (Adam and Eve represent all of us)
and casted down to this material world, to suffer the pangs of material nature. A 9 month old baby can not be compare with the living entity's free will, we were aware of the warning, the baby has not the understanding.

Answer 5

The knowledge we are given in the Bible is just to cover the true story, Adam and Eve had no idea of what the penis( Snake) or sex was until oneday the penis got erected and Eve got to fit it in her vagina, that's just when they knew how things were. God didn't want them to multiple until it was a rightfut time for them to do so. We are given the reverse story because the Sunday kids also study the Bible.

Answer 6

There are two trees in the garden. These two trees have more than a literal meaning. We are told that The tree of knowledge of good and evil is forbidden.
The day Adam eats of it he will surely die.
The tree of life is also in the midst of the garden if they eat of it they will live forever.
These two trees are obviously more than trees.
What is the knowledge of good and evil?
Where could a man gain knowledge of good and evil?
We get our knowledge of good and evil from God.
The law that God sent down to Moses is the knowledge of good and evil.
Why would God's righteous law kill man?
Because man could not live up to God's righteousness.
It is also the reason there was a tree in the midst of the garden called the tree of life.
This is God's mercy.
This story Moses tells is of he two natures of God his righteousness and his mercy.
It is the story of man and his fall from God's glory and God's plan of salvation.

Answer 7

eve knew it was wrong because God told her not to do it.
if God had not told them to not eat from the tree it would have been fine

The 9 month old baby was not told not to throw the bottle, and even if she was, she could not have understood you

Answer 8

I think the moral of the story is that they were disobedient; told not to eat the fruit but yet they did regardless of whether they understood it's right or wrongness. It's besides the point really since it never happened anyway. But you do have a point, what kind of God would that be?

Answer 9

Adam and Eve , as long as they thought spiritually , were not capable of recognizing bad or mortal thoughts.Once they decided to think like flesh and blood man instead of spiritual man they subjected themselves not only to the illusion of pleasure but also the pain that accompanies pleasure. You can't believe in one without accepting the other.

Answer 10

Adam and Eve knew what is right and what is wronge
they knew that eating that fruit is wrong and they did it
they were not children