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Genesis 2: 16The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." 

There is a lot I do not understand about this tree of knowledge. Why would God plant a tree with fruit that: "was a delight to the eyes".  Then forbid them to eat the fruit from this tree?

Genesis 3 6"When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate"

Genesis 1:31  31"God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good."

IF everything God made was good then where did the evil come from?  Why did God plant this tree if it was not good for them? If day means day then why did they not die the day they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?  

Also I wonder about Ezekiel when he talks about the Cedar trees of Lebanon. 

Ezekiel 31 "9'I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous of it.

If all of the tree of Eden were Jealous of the cedar in Lebanon, does that mean Lebanon was better than Eden back in it's days of purity?  Also how can a tree be "Jealous", do they have feeling?  Could a tree talk like a snake could talk back in the days of Eden? 

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All of the trees and fruit and animals and such were good, a delight to the eyes, and enjoyable to be in the midst of and around.  The tree of the knowledge of good and evil wasn't anymore special or delightful than anything else.

Adam and Eve had no interest in that tree at all to start with.  They weren't afraid of it.  They weren't drawn to it.  It just didn't make a blip on their radar screen.  Their interest was in the bounty of other trees that God had given.  It wasn't until the devil deceived Eve that all she should could focus on was that one blasted tree.

How did that work?  By nature, we are drawn to what is forbidden.  Adam and Eve were not born with a sin nature, but they grew one so to speak that passes down to all of us.

It wouldn't have mattered what command God gave: [1] don't eat from that tree, or [2] don't play with the monkeys, or [3] don't pick the roses, or [d] don't leave banana peels all over the place.

What matters is that God - in his holiness - wanted Adam and Eve to be holy.  They could not be holy until they understood that they were NOT God and were in danger as the creation of sinning against his holiness, did sin, and needed redemption.  God wasn't desiring them to sin, but knew that they would.

The tree didn't make them sin.  It didn't entice them.  Even the law of "don't eat" didn't draw them to sin.  It was the desire to "be like God" that caused them to sin.  

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Jayne said:

All of the trees and fruit and animals and such were good, a delight to the eyes, and enjoyable to be in the midst of and around.  The tree of the knowledge of good and evil wasn't anymore special or delightful than anything else.

Adam and Eve had no interest in that tree at all to start with.  They weren't afraid of it.  They weren't drawn to it.  It just didn't make a blip on their radar screen.  Their interest was in the bounty of other trees that God had given.  It wasn't until the devil deceived Eve that all she should could focus on was that one blasted tree.

How did that work?  By nature, we are drawn to what is forbidden.  Adam and Eve were not born with a sin nature, but they grew one so to speak that passes down to all of us.

It wouldn't have mattered what command God gave: [1] don't eat from that tree, or [2] don't play with the monkeys, or [3] don't pick the roses, or [d] don't leave banana peels all over the place.

What matters is that God - in his holiness - wanted Adam and Eve to be holy.  They could not be holy until they understood that they were NOT God and were in danger as the creation of sinning against his holiness, did sin, and needed redemption.  God wasn't desiring them to sin, but knew that they would.

The tree didn't make them sin.  It didn't entice them.  Even the law of "don't eat" didn't draw them to sin.  It was the desire to "be like God" that caused them to sin.  

 

 

 

Sis you need to tell that one to the prosperity gospel , to rome , heck to most churches , cause the many I see ,  its all about that .    I AM   I AM

how bout I AM NOT .  GOD IS , HE IS praise HIM .    

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12 hours ago, JohnR7 said:

Genesis 2: 16The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." 

There is a lot I do not understand about this tree of knowledge. Why would God plant a tree with fruit that: "was a delight to the eyes".  Then forbid them to eat the fruit from this tree?

Genesis 3 6"When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate"

Genesis 1:31  31"God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good."

IF everything God made was good then where did the evil come from?  Why did God plant this tree if it was not good for them? If day means day then why did they not die the day they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?  

Also I wonder about Ezekiel when he talks about the Cedar trees of Lebanon. 

Ezekiel 31 "9'I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous of it.

If all of the tree of Eden were Jealous of the cedar in Lebanon, does that mean Lebanon was better than Eden back in it's days of purity?  Also how can a tree be "Jealous", do they have feeling?  Could a tree talk like a snake could talk back in the days of Eden? 

God was testing Adam.   The tree was not evil. God does not create moral evil (sin).   The tree did not do anything to Adam and Eve.   It was their disobedience that was at fault.  Ezekiel is using a figure of speech about the trees being jealous.  It is an anthropomorphism, where you give human qualities to non-human things.  

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25 minutes ago, shiloh357 said:

God was testing Adam.   The tree was not evil. God does not create moral evil (sin).   The tree did not do anything to Adam and Eve.   It was their disobedience that was at fault.  Ezekiel is using a figure of speech about the trees being jealous.  It is an anthropomorphism, where you give human qualities to non-human things.  

So what caused them to understand that they were naked if the tree didn't do anything to them?

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31 minutes ago, other one said:

So what caused them to understand that they were naked if the tree didn't do anything to them?

Sin.

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5 hours ago, eileenhat said:

God did reveal the tree of Life intel to me a few years ago.  The 'tree' of life refers to his eternal lineage, which includes not only humans pre-fall, but angels.  

We know that one third of the angels followed in the rebellion. “And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven" We know that one third of man will be saved. "This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'The LORD is our God.'"  I never really understood the connection. 

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5 hours ago, eileenhat said:

We assume only God has children in the garden, but what exactly was Adam tending in the garden?  Was he a farmer?  Did he prune trees all day for God?

We see the word 582 enosh used for husband. Even today they still call the science of animal breeding "animal husbandry".  Also later on we see this word enosh used for Noah. At the Universities at Jerusalem there are PhD's that are experts on the domestication of the ancient plants of the middle east that we read about in the Bible like the Olive tree, fig tree and barley.  They call this botany and mostly they write articles in peer reviewed science journals.  Science has studied how farming was transported from the middle east to europe. We also have history we can study and we have archeology that can give us grains going back 20,000 years. So in addition to the Bible there is a lot of history and science we can study about all the plants and animals that we know were on Noah's Ark.  I first began my study of the ancient history around 50 years ago when I was in High School. We studied the books written by James Breasted, he coined the phrase the fertile crescent. We know that God gave the land to Abraham, all the land that his feet walked on and touched. Today this is the Arab countential plate an area of 1500 by 1500 miles. At some point in time this will be the New Jerusalem. When Jesus returns and His feet touch the ground there will be an earth quake and the east will be separated from the west. At the same time the north will be separated from the south. Today we know about the plate tectonics there at the Mount of Olives. Genesis 3:6, 4:23, 6:9. Genesis 9:20 "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard"

Gerold Schroeder PhD MIT talks a lot about this. Just the 32 verses in Genesis 1 can be explained in the 50,000 books of science at the Hayden Library at MIT. In addition to the science books at Harvard University that goes into great detail about what Moses gives us in Genesis chapter one. All of science is in the Bible and in what Moses tells us. Because the ancient Hebrew language is based on the use of symbols and even the letters that make up a word are eternal and without limit. The first letter of the first word in the Bible is the second letter in the Hebrew. There are people that go to great lengths talking about the symbolism of that and the letter B (beta) represents. This has a value of 2. Computer language is based on 0 and 1 called binary. DNA works off of OFF & ON. The default position is ON. My sons take very advanced classes in math. I tend to deal with things on a fifth grade level so that a child can understand. Even we have a niece that is working on her PhD in chemical engineering. So she is better at that then even my sons are. 

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6 hours ago, shiloh357 said:

God was testing Adam.   The tree was not evil. God does not create moral evil (sin).   The tree did not do anything to Adam and Eve.   It was their disobedience that was at fault.  Ezekiel is using a figure of speech about the trees being jealous.  It is an anthropomorphism, where you give human qualities to non-human things.  

It could be that they did something to the tree.  The Bible does not talk about apples but science tells us that this is a hybrid tree where man takes the branches from one tree and grafts in into another tree. It could be that God was telling them not to eat from that tree that man had tampered with. 

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15 hours ago, Yowm said:

They did die spiritually, their relationship with God was broken, no longer did they love Him but they feared Him. Their bodies went on another 900 years or so but their spirit made a pact with death that moment.

If the tree they ate from was a hybrid then the DNA was tampered with. This was a tree made by man and not by God.  Paul tells us that the gentiles were grafted into the tree perhaps to replace natural branches that were cut off and thrown into the fire. Because they did not produce fruit. 

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