I Have A Question About The Book Of Genesis?
First off i’d like to address this to the main part of the population that believes we are the one race on this planet MEANT to rule the earth; people who believe we can do whatever the hell we want to it because it was made for us, humans.
To rule, one must know what is good and evil, or right and wrong.
Now, in Genesis, I think it’s fair to say God did not want Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, knowledge of good and evil.
So why did God not want us to acquire this knowledge?
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Knowledge is power and power corrupts.
i was not the fact of God not wanting humans to acquire the knowledge, but to see if humans could keep a promise and keep God’s laws. It was his first test of human Resistance and follow ship. He just wanted to see if Humans could overcome tempations. if the first sin did not occurr there would not be a thing such as sin in todays world.
to know the knowlege f=of good and evil wouldnt you say you know right from wrong?well..before adman and eve disobeied God, God just wanted to be with them…He wanted to have a one on one convo with them…And since God hates sin..then He wanted adam and eve to live without sin..because he hates sin…but once you get the knowlege of good and evil you get the choice to do good or bad…. and a lot of times we chose the bad..which is sin….which God hates….do u get that? ok so if you did get what i said give me thumbs up…thanks! sorry if that didnt make sence..
God gave life in paradise in exchange for following one simple rule. I am not sure it mattered what the rule was, but that mankind was obedient. He just happened to have chosen that as the rule.
Well, this “knowledge” was obviously more than we could handle. Just look at the kind of world we live in now. All anyone has to do is turn on the TV or read a newspaper and see all the disturbing things we are doing to one another and all the unspeakable abuse that some inflict on children. Yeah, we’ve done a marvelous job…..NOT!
Look a little deeper. If He didn’t want us to eat of it, it would not have been there. Was He telling Adam not to eat it, or warning him of what would come of it? He knew it would happen eventually.
because he didn’t want us to concern ourselves with what was right and wrong, as we would just live peacefully with God, but now because we willingly do wrong that seperates us from God.
Knowledge is power and no one man is meant to have that much power. It was a test and both Adam and Eve failed.
Because then we would WILLINGLY do evil rather than do it in ignorance.
You have the totally innocent created by God, that have abilities that are not yet known to themselves.
Like freewill etc…
So the real question is, is why did God mix his creation of Mankind
with an unclean angel?
I mean Satan was here first before man was created as the book of Genesis points to, and the other point of view is mankind has to live 2000 years to get some sort of knowledge of right and wrong and to find the source of the bad thinking to tell the guy off.
So really the knowledge was inevitable as the devil is there tempting Gods creation and if it weren’t the law of the tree, it would be something else you can bet on that.
God allowed man to obtain knowledge strictly for loyalty to God and
to prevent another Lucifer happening in the future and at the same time to properly judge an unclean angel starting from scratch so to speak.
The first human pair were not devoid of knowledge of good and bad. God had told them that it would be wrong or bad to eat of the fruit of one designated tree; conversely, to obey God was good. (Gen. 2:16, 17) So the particular “knowledge” indicated by the “tree of the knowledge of good and bad” involved a self-determining of what is good and bad. On this, Professor T. J. Conant wrote: “By disregarding the divine will, and deciding and acting on his own, man chose to know for himself what is good and evil.” Yes, Adam and Eve rejected God’s determination and chose to set up their own standard of what was good and what was bad.
What Was the Original Sin?—When God created Adam and Eve, he settled them in a beautiful garden that was filled with edible vegetation and fruit-bearing trees. Only one tree was out of bounds—“the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.” Being free moral agents, Adam and Eve could choose to obey God or disobey him. Adam was warned, however, that “in the day you eat from [the tree of knowledge] you will positively die.”—Genesis 1:29; 2:17.
A Grasp at Moral Independence
The tree of knowledge was a literal tree. However, it represented God’s right as Ruler to decide what is good and bad for his human creation. To eat from the tree, therefore, was not just an act of theft—taking that which belonged to God—but also a presumptuous grasp at moral independence, or self-determination. Note that after lyingly telling Eve that if she and her husband ate the fruit, they ‘positively would not die,’ Satan asserted: “For God knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and you are bound to be like God, knowing good and bad.”—Genesis 3:4, 5. When they ate the fruit, however, Adam and Eve did not receive godlike enlightenment on good and bad. In fact, Eve said to God: “The serpent—it deceived me.” (Genesis 3:13) Still, she knew of God’s command, even restating it to the serpent, Satan’s mouthpiece. (Revelation 12:9) Hence, her act was one of willful disobedience. (Genesis 3:1-3) Adam, though, was not deceived. (1 Timothy 2:14) Instead of loyally obeying his Creator, he listened to his wife and followed her independent course.—Genesis 3:6, 17. By asserting their independence, Adam and Eve irreparably damaged their relationship with Jehovah and inflicted sin’s imprint upon their organism, right to its genetic foundations. True, they lived for hundreds of years, but they began to die “in the day” of their sin, as a branch severed from a tree would. (Genesis 5:5) Moreover, for the first time, they sensed an internal disharmony. They felt naked and tried to hide from God. (Genesis 3:7, 8) They also felt guilt, insecurity, and shame. Their sin produced an upheaval within them, their consciences accusing them of wrongdoing. To be true to himself and to his holy standards, God justly sentenced Adam and Eve to death and expelled them from the garden of Eden. (Genesis 3:19, 23, 24) Thus, Paradise, happiness, and everlasting life were lost, while sin, suffering, and death resulted. What a tragic development for the human race! However, immediately after sentencing the couple, God promised to undo all the harm resulting from their sin without compromising his own righteous standards. Jehovah purposed to make it possible for the offspring of Adam and Eve to be freed from sin’s deadly grip. He accomplished this through Jesus Christ. (Genesis 3:15; Matthew 20:28; Galatians 3:16) Through him, God will eliminate sin and all its effects and will make the earth into a global paradise, just as he purposed in the beginning.—Luke 23:43; John 3:16.