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Christians, a question on Adam and Eve (legitimate question)?

Ok, so Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge that gave them the knowledge to know good from evil (The Original Sin). God had told them not to eat the fruit and so he punished them.

My question is: why did God punish them for eating from the Tree of Knowledge when they didnt know right from wrong before eating the fruit? If he created two beings who didnt know right from wrong, why did he expect them to make the right choices?

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  • 9 years ago
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    I guess they were like zombies before eating the fruit. Which also makes the idea that Eve was created because of Adam being lonely kind of silly. You will just be tools again that he just wanted them to obey. And now we are tools that all he wants is us to believe he exists. Definitely lowering his standards.

  • Daisy
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    They didn't know right from wrong in GENERAL but they understood the fact that God didn't want them to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and yet Eve disobeyed and fell in temptation. Then, she made Adam eat the fruit, and he let himself fall into temptaion as well. And thus, sin was born and God punished them for disobeying.

    Source(s): Christian, Book of Genesis
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    This is a good point, one which I have not really thought about so I shall speculate for you.

    A child at the age of about two cannot tell the difference between right and wrong. Many will not know you should not throw food at people for example. However if the parents tell them not to do something they understand, even at a very limitted level, that they should not do that thing. At the beginning Adam and Eve had a similar understanding of right and wrong. When God told them not to eat the fruit they knew they should not do it but proceeded not to listen to his command. What the tree of knowledge did was give them the abilityto discern for themselves what was right and what was wrong.

    These are my thoughts.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Wrong, Adam and Eve knew what they were doing was wrong. The tree was the Knowledge of good and evil.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Adam and Eve knew only good after creation. They had one boundary. They were free to do anything at all except one thing. They were forbidden to eat from one tree in a vast garden. They were punished for disobeying that one command... the only command they had. You would think they could have held out longer, but Eve was deceived and Adam chose rebellion. Adam knew it was wrong, Eve was deceived.

  • 9 years ago

    what make you think or anyone think the event was a choice? If there was a choice then why did the lamb die before the foundation of the world? the truth of the matter is there is a higher state of creation for man to learn and that goes thought the knowledge of good and evil. it wasall plan from the Begining to the end.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    bear in mind, God had already created the angels till now Adam and Eve and that they have been witnesses, in that, Adam and Eve have been the 1st and easily 2 of their form- at that element. And our lord god ordained a guy and a woman to marry one yet another because of the fact the Genesis account properly-knownshows - how else would there be any offspring?

  • 9 years ago

    Doesn't a parent punish a young child when they disobey ? When they don't know right from wrong ? They were told what to do and not to do. The tempter turned Gods words around so that they thought they wouldn't be punished. Who did they listen to ?

  • 9 years ago

    We had the tree of life in the garden as well and was free to eat from that and live as Adam and Eve forever without knowing evil..God didnt want them to eat and know evil because he didnt want them ashamed of themselves for being naked..Knowledge exposes us to truth..Adam and Eve had no ideal Satan existed.. and thanks to Satan now we know..And from knowing this truth we are now allwowed to chose from good and evil..And so began humanity.

  • 9 years ago

    The punishment was not for lack of understanding right from wrong, but for disobedience and lack of trust in God. Google First Scandal.

    Source(s): Genesis 1,2, and 3
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