Is the Bible the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...?

conscience

Think of a baby, constantly learning, constantly evolving. When an enfant hits a person who is close to them (mother/father), and the mother reacts by looking hurt, or saying "don't do that", the child recognizes that over time, it hurts to hit someone. Not only their feelings, but physically. Simple explanation, now take the same circumstances and rewind it back to when humans were at a very fragile and barbaric state of life. Our sense of morals came from evolution, knowing right from wrong. But everyone all over the world have different versions of what's right and wrong but usually in the same context. And many have not seen, heard, or read anything about the christian bible. Tribes for instance, that have been secluded from the rest of the world for years. They have their own culture, their own religions, and their own sense of morals. Many believe they are barbaric, that they do not know right from wrong. Their lifestyle still consists of morals, and some I would say that are perfectly fine. We do not need the bible to be moral.

No. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was just that.

No one today really knows the diff between good and evil.

God did not allow the knowledge to be transferred from one generation to another, just the sin. The Bible gives us our moral code but it is not what determines good and evil, Only God can do that because he created both good and evil.

A very good question.

You could say that it is and that wouldnt be wrong.

Perhaps it is the seed, and man is the fruit.

The debate is endless, but there is a sameness in most religeons where truth, compassion, and tolerance are the theme.

Wherever there is decency there are morals.

Every belief has its share of followers who value the morals, and a large share of those who fall far short.

Smoothsoullady is correct. The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is wisdom. Adam and Eve, if they every did exist, were innocent beings who knew only good. They knew of God's wisdom, and wanted a piece. God did not punish them by casting them out of the garden of Eden. Refer to this poem:

"He who learns must suffer

And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget

Falls drop by drop upon the heart,

And in our own despair, against our will,

Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

No. The fruit, is just what it says it is, I would think figuratively speaking. It is an eye-opener. The beginnings of awareness.

So true with us. Most of us go around asleep most of the time. Many reasons. There could be thinks we don't want to know, won't let ourselves know, etc...But true knowledge is to be awake and aware every moment.

The tree was satan.

Eze.31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

31:9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

use your own brain

that is the best source

if the bible was a fruit it would be an old moldy rotten tomatoe