WHY DID GOD FORBID ADAM AND EVE FROM EATING FROM THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE?

People are easier to control when they don't know anything. When you achieve knowledge you begin to question and therefore must be dealt with. My opinion of course.

maybe it's the opposite.
god tells his children what he doesn't want them to do, so that they will do it. just like children. maybe he was inticing us to eat the fruit because he really wanted us to have the truth.

He was trying to keep them from ending up like Harold camping and other rapture tards of various sorts.

But since they ate it..the world has been plagued by a million religions ever since all hating eachother..setting doom dates all the time..and killing in Gods name.

God just wanted to avoid it all..but he still had to give them a choice or he would have been a dictator.

Sadly..they ate from the tree..and thousands of years later..we have RAPTURE TARDS..and MUSLIMS>.and..hate..and death..MOST of it in the name of RELIGION..which is..KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL.

See??

Didn't want them to have knowledge of EVIL. Simple as that.
But then, if God knows all, he KNEW Eve would offer Adam the fruit so why did he place it there in the first place? Sort of seems like the human race was set up to fail.

IT'S A TRAP!!!!

or maybe he just said, yeah i can fix that up, it'll work out good.

Because he's a bastard. That type of behavior is definitely not rapture worthy.

Because they would then die.

Satan lied to them.

because then they would have technology.

We can also go back a little further and say since he knows all why did he allow Lucifer to rebel in the first place. Could of stopped this whole mess before it even started, but thats just something we'll have to wait till were up there to find out why.

We can also go back a little further and say since he knows all why did he allow Lucifer to rebel in the first place. Could of stopped this whole mess before it even started, but thats just something we'll have to wait till were up there to find out why.

Technology to harm mankind.

It's just a story. Like a Disney movie.

because knowledge is a dead end...

read hobbs..

leviathan.

to be at peace you need a ruler.

No, the serpent(believed to be Satan) told the truth. God said if they ate the apple they would die. The serpent said they would gain knowledge of the truth and that is exactly what happened.

Besides it's all a metaphor for sex. The Bible is big on hating on sex and the metaphor is that Eve seduced Adam with her 'fruit' and thus corrupted him thus giving religion the excuse it needed to oppress women for thousands of years.

Because he knew if they did eat the fruit , their future proginy would create GLP !!!

Remember this was after Satan's rebellion with his angels, so Yah made man and woman and the Earth but allows the devil to test them (and each of us). When the testing of everyone is done the whole joint is going to be thrown in the bin along with the people and angels that are rebellious, selfish haters. The Yah will make something significantly greater than this crap hole of a planet and live in peace with his people. True story

It was CIDER, alcohol, rotten apple.

and if he fore-knew that lucifer would rebel and cause all these problems, why create lucifer in the first place???
if you fore-know that if you are going to conceive a son, that son is later on going to torture and kill you, would you still go ahead and conceive that son??
of course not!!
so why did god make lucifer, knowing that lucifer would cause god to have to incarnate himself into jesus so he can be tortured and killed crucified on a cross.....why make lucifer or satan or the devil or whatever you like to call him? why make him in the first place?

so, it is obvious that this whole story is FALSE

He let Satan rebel because he gave him like all of us, free will. And now he's letting us choose our side. Yah is also showing us what happens when people follow the law of Get - the take and not give, the 'I want it all' no matter the cost. How well is our world working under Satan's rules?? Some people have great wealth and power and others are brutalised, abused,starved and dying. There is an Indian billionaire building himself a 35 storey 'mansion'while many of his country men wash in the river they shit in.

Yah has let the Devils rebellion grow full blown, and it has produced many terrible evils for billions of lives. And I'm set against it.

and if he fore-knew that lucifer would rebel and cause all these problems, why create lucifer in the first place???
if you fore-know that if you are going to conceive a son, that son is later on going to torture and kill you, would you still go ahead and conceive that son??
of course not!!
so why did god make lucifer, knowing that lucifer would cause god to have to incarnate himself into jesus so he can be tortured and killed crucified on a cross.....why make lucifer or satan or the devil or whatever you like to call him? why make him in the first place?

so, it is obvious that this whole story is FALSE

I figure it's along the lines of knowing Good from Evil.

We kinda made that up. Nothing's Good or Evil, till we label it so.

Avoiding the Evil for the Good, sets us up for suffering. They come hand in hand. Different sides of the same coin, Life.

Living it ain't so easy though, in my experience!

Because Adam and Eve were only doing it missionary style and God the almighty got pissed because they learned that doggy style is much better from the tree of knowledge

The story of Adam and Eve is actually a transformed(and mistranslated) Sumerian epic about a battle of perspectives.

Enki(represented by the serpent) wanted to give man the ability to procreate(The Apple represents knowledge.....sexual knowledge perhaps? Who knows....but its a metaphor that is not understood fully at this time).

Enlil(represented by "God" as he often is in any Abrahamic religion) wants this to be stopped, and for mankind to continue to live in a world solely controlled by "God" and his will.



Its a very fascinating story, and it is as old as the written word. But it doesn't come from the Bible exclusively, in fact it doesn't come from any of the Abrahamic religions at all.....it comes from the cradle. Eridu.

I am quite surprised by how shallow many of your thoughts are.

This is a good thread that possibly answers some of your questions:

Thread: Religious logic help needed...?

My personal opinion is that we are not intended to analize everything and be ruled by the numerical mind
We are intended to live with our hearts and simply be.In peace and harmony.
Thats pretty much gone with the wind though...
because the fruit was eaten.

Because HE wanted us to avoid inventing the computers.

May be they did eat from it, but their descendants do not seam to have profited of it.

The tree of knowledge of good and evil was SATAN. the word eat should have been translated partake , Adam and Eve were to have no contact with Satan in the garden of Eden. The tree of life is Jesus in the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve not only spoke in the garden of Eden with Satan , they had sex with him resulting in Eve being pregnant with paternal twins , Cain and Abel. Cain was satan's child and Abel was Adam's child.

In genesis 3:13 when eve said she was "beguiled" by the serpent ( Satan) the word beguiled should have been translated wholly seduced. Then if you read genesis 3:15 it make total sense 3:15 " I will put enmity between thee(Satan) and the woman and between thy seed and the womans seed.

Last Edited by Godsontoo-old on 05/21/2011 10:26 AM

Why do you think it is the apple that was the forbidden fruit?