Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
So I've read up quite a bit on the old story of the Apple, Adam, and Eve and such, and I can't seem to grasp one thing I see as important in it all.
Besides the fact that God had commanded Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, why would that be a bad thing to do?
I suppose what I mean is, why would God not want his creation to know the difference? Also, if they did not know the difference between good and evil, how could the very act of disobedience of God be seen as good or evil from their eyes?
Also, it seems that gaining knowledge from a plant led to the idea that all plant-based knowledge is deemed as evil in the west.
Could it not have been God's intent that we eat from it? After all, the snake was in the garden, which supposedly couldn't house evil inside, so God allowed the snake to be there as a tempter at the very least it seems.
Besides the fact that God had commanded Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, why would that be a bad thing to do?
I suppose what I mean is, why would God not want his creation to know the difference? Also, if they did not know the difference between good and evil, how could the very act of disobedience of God be seen as good or evil from their eyes?
Also, it seems that gaining knowledge from a plant led to the idea that all plant-based knowledge is deemed as evil in the west.
Could it not have been God's intent that we eat from it? After all, the snake was in the garden, which supposedly couldn't house evil inside, so God allowed the snake to be there as a tempter at the very least it seems.