Another Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil Question...?

I totally agree. God set them up. They had no way of knowing that disobeying god was wrong until after they did so.

This is a major flaw in the Eden story.

Adam and Eve did not "die of it that day."

The definitions of disobedience and evil do not directly correlate. In context the knowledge of evil (and good for that matter) is the understanding of all the horrible (and virtuous) things that can be done. They became aware of sexual immorality, decadence, murder, wrath, pain, etc... but these had nothing to do with simply disobeying a direct order from God at the time. They had no knowledge of Good and Evil other than what God said not to do you shouldn't do. When they ate of the tree they gained an understanding of every other sinful and saintly act that could be done. They had no need to attempt to be saintly because by doing whatever they wanted except eating of the tree was, by it's nature, virtuous. In a sense, even the knowledge of good can be a sad thing to consider since those things are often only done in an attempt to satisfy a perfect God we have offended with our disobedience. Adam and Eve didn't have to try to get God's approval, they were born with it. (Remember the whole "it is good" thing?) However, after the fall, things became necessary to please God other than simply living since by simply living they were living in sin. In summary, the knowledge of Good and Evil gained with the eating of the fruit was that of a vast understanding of what can be done to attempt to please God and what is detrimental to both self and relationship with said deity. Hopefully this helped in an unbiased manner...

The Sagrade Biblie is based in parabolas, mean laterals words., mean examples, think adan and eva is a parabola, long time before exist the homo sapiens, said the science.

Instead of arguing & fighting with God, why don't you just do what he asks (repent of your sins & accept Jesus as lord)?

Do you really think that you can change God's mind, or his standards, by arguing with us?

God's placing the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden was a good thing. Adam and Eve were given incredible gifts from God. How are they to respond? In what way can they show their gratitude? Adam and Eve show their gratitude to God by not eating of the one tree. The tree is opportunity to act on their trust and love for God.

Before they ate from the tree, it was clear that they knew that they shouldn't. Eve cleaarly said that she was not to eat from the tree. The reason she ate was not a problem of morality but of trust!! She was lead by the devil to believe that God was holding out on her -- that the tree was good for her and would make her more like God. It was Adam and Eve's change from trusting in God to their selfish desire to be like God that lead them to eat, it was not a problem with being able to make moral decisions.

After the fall, we STILL refuse to trust God even after seeing that God was right and that we should have trusted God. A common result of the fall is our common practice of blaming God for our own faults. It's a standard whimpy response to doing something wrong. Rather than own up to the problem, we blame someone else.

Many of us remember our parents telling us not to play (or throw balls etc) in the living room, and even though we could play anywhere else in the house, for some reason we ended up playing in the living room and breaking something. Common responses are to hope the parents don't come home, hope they don't notice, hide the boken object, or when caught to blame them for leaving such a nice object out where it can be broken. The broken object causes a rift in our relationship with our parents EVEN THOUGH IT WAS OUR FAULT. As adults people don't change much.

This question comes up all of the time, and is based on a logical fallacy.

They were not able to conceive, or imagine, evil deeds on their own without being told ( I.E.; they never would have thought of killing someone, for example).

However, even an innocent child knows what the word "no" means, so obviously they were morally cupable.

They may have been ignorant of the concept of "the knowlege of good and evil" however they did understand the concept of Father told us not to touch or we will die, clearly this is true based on the deception of the serpent telling them that they would surely not die.

Look at this way:

They received a command from their father not to eat it and a warning of the impending danger of eating it.

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If a father tells his children not to touch a hot stove because it will burn them, are you saying those children are not morally responsible for their decision to disobey their father and get burned?

The same is of Adam and Chavah. God didn't tell them not to eat it knowing they would, he told them so as to warn them of the danger of doing it because they are his children and he loves them.

Obviously they had enough sense to know God told them not to eat of it.

The tree of knowledge of good and evil is much more than simply a tree.

This tree represents Gods righteousness and the law.

Adam and Eve were not dimwits..they were simply tasting of the law that demonstrates to us we are not righteous and our need for God.

It is the law that reveals to us our sin and it is sin that kills us.

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.

God gave man the law knowing man could not live up to his righteousness.

The law was not to change a man it changed none.

The law revealed to man his lack of righteousness and his need for a Savior

According to the tale, they were told not to eat it, but did anyway. But the tale is fiction, so the question is moot.

The sin is disobedience. It was a choice.

Llamas!!!!!!