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How could Adam and Eve know that disobeying God was wrong if they had not eaten the fruit from the tree...?

of knowledge of good and evil?

how can you know its bad when you don't know its bad?

do you see who that who thing makes no sense and that God was a jerk for not giving them knowledge of it being evil to disobey him?

Update:

how could they know it was wrong to disobey him if they didnt know what was right and wrong?

Update 2:

most of you are completely missing the point. How could they know it was bad or good if they have NO knowledge of wht is bad or good?

you say god gave them intuiton, but how could they know what was bad or evenhave intution with NO knowldge of what is bad.

how could they know what it means to die if they have no expereince with it?

answer the question!

Update 3:

Andie, why would you need faith if God was right there talking to you all the time? what good is faith if you do no know what is right and wrong?

Update 4:

actually god is to blame. he made Adma and Eve the way they were, he created a conidition for them to fail and then got mad at them for doing it, even though he already KNEW they were going to do it.

see your god is a jerk.

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  • Steve
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    It was a frame up from the beginning. God put them there. Put the tree there. Let the snake in. Just happened to be 'somewhere else' during the crime. Immediately punished with utter severity the smallest of misunderstandings, laying the blame wholly on the victim.

    Apparently the reason for this is that God wanted sacrifices of dead animals and needed some excuse to get them; so he invented sin.

    Later on, he hit upon a perfect way to get this burning smell he loves: He invented Hell and tosses every last human in there after death so that he may enjoy their suffering.

    The prosecution rests.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The seed of sin got here into production from the commencing. Otherwise there might no longer be the life of a forbidden tree or character. We can finish that although God expressly forbade Adam and eve to close or devour of the forbidden tree, they outrightly disobeyed. Innocent kids shudder from the caution and rebuke of the father or mother. The susceptibility to being maligned happens no longer within the enlightened blameless however in the ones harbouring illicit want or sinful nature. It then follows in committing sin and being led off target by means of Lucifer eve’s greed, lust, ambition, anger or vengefulness, sloth and gluttony for she had the daddy of Eden as her partner she was once an lively player. It does no longer require quantum technological know-how to obey The Fathers command. Sinful nature and the downfall of guy is thereby attributed to eve. The evil carnal nature of ladies and the susceptible willed and servile submission of guy to the equal. Matriarchs create a race of powerful reasonable minded guys, domineering feminists lead guys to destruction. America is alas ruled by means of this perverse reversal of fortune. Media leads mankind off target sowing seeds of wish, ambition and discontent. The church damns such vile behaviour and accordingly the top prevalence of religious impoverishment, homosexuality, feminism, and deviant behaviour. Given the prosperity it will have to preferably be a veritable Eden. Conflicting forces and dictates keep a digital social anarchy and civil unrest. Armageddon is the delicate warfare for domination among the immoral {Steve} media, amoral {Adam} govt and ethical {Father} and divided church.

  • 1 decade ago

    While the tree is referred to in English versions of the Bible as as the tree of the "knowledge" of good and evil, the original Hebrew has a word that means "experiencing" rather than :knowing". It is a knowledge that comes first hand by experience rather than is taught.

    Adam and Eve did understand the concept of good and evil, and had been told what they were and were not permitted to do. However that had not experienced the consequences of making an evil decision yet for themselves. (They had experienced good from the hand of God.)

    Think of it this way. All children are born with genitals. But they do not make use of them when they are still an infant or child. They grow to where they are ready for the experience that comes from having genitals. If that experience is forced on them before they are mature and ready, it is a crime that usually scars them for life.

    So God created man with a will, and place in him a world where moral choice was possible. But he planned to mature and teach man until he was ready for the experience of good and evil. However man got himself raped before it was ready, and the results have scarred the human race for this rest of its life.

    God was not a monster to include the tree in the garden and more that he is a monster for allowing children to have genitals from birth. The 'monster" happens when people do not follow his rules on the use of genitals (or eating from a certain tree) and mess things up.

    They are to blame, not God.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Genesis 2 verse 16 and 17.

    This states that God told them that they could eat from any tree except the tree of knowledge.

    God also gave Adam and Eve intuition. By doing something against the wishes of God Adam and Eve knew that it was not to Gods liking therefore ultimately wrong.

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  • I Know
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Adam & Eve were given a positive command and a negative command by God. Be fruitful and multiply and do not eat the fruit of the tree in the center of the garden or you will surely die. I would say they knew the negative results of the negative command.

    Never measure God’s unlimited power by your limited expectations.

  • elyon
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    They knew it was wrong to disobey. They were told by God Himself what NOT to do. God had given them clear and specific instructions and boundaries. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was the tree, and no, they had no knowledge of evil, and since perfection existed everywhere, they had no concept of good either. But that is not to say that they had no concept of obedience. They knew. Eve told satan the truth in Genesis 3:

    And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

    But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

    They knew, and they chose to do what they wanted to do rather than obey. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

  • 1 decade ago

    god created this great village for them to live in then made this tree with the tastiest and most juicy fruit growing off it (he didn't have to but he did anyway) he then said right adam, oi eve come here! you see that tree its got the the tastiest and most juicy fruit growing off it its the tree of knowledge, don't eat any fruit from it. so adam and eve one day where enjoying some of gods non forbidden herbs (weed) and eve went for a walk because she was feeling strange. Eve was so stoned that she saw a snake that told her to eat the fruit, she thought, "what the heck ive got the friggin munchies and that fruit looks like the tastiest and most juicy fruit EVER!". and the rest is history

  • Kate
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It wasn't a simply matter of right and wrong. It was a matter of faith. Whether or not they understood what the fruit was or what it would do, the simple fact that they did not have faith in God enough to follow his instructions was the point at which they failed.

  • 1 decade ago

    god told them not 2 eat it. they didn't know right from wrong as u pointed out but god expected them 2 obey like the dogs they were.

    Source(s): moral of the story... never trust a woman. lol
  • 1 decade ago

    God did tell these guys that it was bad to disobey what he had told them. He said: "the day you eat of the fruit you will SURELY DIE". I don't think they thought he was joking.

    Source(s): Genesis
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