2007-09-23 08:31:46 · 21 answers · asked by Roshwynder S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It was a test of obedience. If He didn't have the tree there, then there wouldn't be a choice, would there?
2007-09-23 08:37:27 · answer #1 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
God gave Adam responsibility for the garden and told him not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Rather than physically preventing him from eating, God gave Adam a choice and thus, the possibility of choosing wrongly. These wrong choices may cause us pain, but they can help us learn and grow and make better choices in the future. Living with the consequences of our choices teaches us to think and choose more carefully.
God wanted Adam to obey, but God gave Adam the freedom to choose. Without choice, Adam would have been a prisoner, and his obedience would have been hollow. It is an exercise in choice. When you are faced with the choice, always choose to obey God. NLT
2007-09-23 08:47:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God is funny that way. He likes to trick people sometimes. Like the time that he got me drunk on the communion wine and I ended up in the backroom making out with the pastor of the Baptist Church. Why did God allow that to happen. I was out of my mind drunk at the time so I couldn't make good decisions. I wonder if maybe Adam and Eve got a hold of some fermented berries in the garden and maybe they got a little crazy and started eating all the good stuff.
2007-09-23 08:51:16 · answer #3 · answered by Ask Donna 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The tree of knowledge was a tree that held all things, both good and evil. Once you know evil, you can not turn back and be in paradise. He also gave him free will and was simply testing mankind, and as always, we could not help our sinful ways.
2007-09-23 08:37:46 · answer #4 · answered by Save Religion 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because he didn't want us to be burdened with that knowledge...for with the knowledge of good and evil comes the responsibility to choose between them. He wanted us to trust him and his knowledge.
To the person that suggested God was a poor parent because he wanted to hide the truth from them, I would suggest that NONE of us wants our newborn to make his or her own decisions...we want our children, especially when they are very young, to turn to us for advice and to accept our advice. Most parents want to keep their children innocent as long as possible...I don't want my son to be fully aware of all the good and all the evil in this world at three or even six. Perhaps God had every intention of sharing that knowledge with Adam and Eve in HIS time...when he knew that they were ready for it. ...but first, he needed them to trust him just as I need my son to trust me before he's mature enough to make his own decisions.
2007-09-23 08:45:10 · answer #5 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of a word called (Gnossis), Greek for" Knowledge"as in Gnostissm,a very old Religion-as in the knowing of something.Today we call it Pychic abiliity,and it was much deeper than Pyschic....it was a special type of Knowledge.See ".Gnosstissm".As in Gnostic Gospels of Mary Magdalene.
2007-09-23 09:35:01 · answer #6 · answered by donna s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not create humans to suffer. On the contrary, he endowed the first human couple, Adam and Eve, with perfect minds and bodies, prepared a delightful garden to serve as their home, and assigned them meaningful, satisfying work. (Genesis 1:27, 28, 31; 2:8) However, their continued happiness depended on their recognizing God's rulership and his right to decide what was good and what was bad. That divine prerogative was represented by a tree called "the tree of the knowledge of good and bad." (Genesis 2:17) Adam and Eve would demonstrate their subjection to God if they obeyed his command not to eat from that tree. *
Tragically, Adam and Eve failed to obey God. A rebellious spirit creature, later identified as Satan the Devil, convinced Eve that it was not in her best interests to obey God. In fact, God was supposedly depriving her of something highly desirable: independence, the right to choose for herself what was good and what was bad. Satan claimed that if she ate of the tree, 'her eyes were bound to be opened and she was bound to be like God, knowing good and bad.' (Genesis 3:1-6; Revelation 12:9) Seduced by the prospect of independence, Eve partook of the forbidden fruit, and Adam soon did the same.
The whole article is right here. http://www.watchtower.org/e/20030101/article_01.htm
2007-09-23 08:44:02 · answer #7 · answered by Kevin 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
So Adam would not become like him (read the rest of the text).
2007-09-23 08:42:13 · answer #8 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ignorant know less about reality and therefore have more potential fears which make them easier to manipulate so that achieving ones goals becomes easier. You see, it's all a dreadful chain of influence with one event manipulated to bring about other events with an unseen controller obtaining all the benefits.
2007-09-23 08:58:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
And why did Adam not die after eating it like God said it would?
2007-09-23 08:39:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because then Adam and Eve would know sin and how to commit it.
2007-09-23 08:41:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋