Why God the Father considered this fruit as forbidden?

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GENESIS 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
 
We do not know what type of fruit it was. We do know that Yehovah wanted them to love him, as he does us. To love freely, we must have a choice to choose. Adam and eve were tempted by a fruit that probably smelled good and was sweet to eat.
Our fruit may be drugs, porn, alcohol, our house, sports, or many other things. Like the tree of good and evil, it draws us. We have the same choice as Adam and eve choose the bad fruit over the good. Yeshua wants us to eat of the tree with good fruit. All sin is forbidden to believers. So we must always choose the good fruit from the tree of life, Yeshua
 
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Buck said:
We do not know what type of fruit it was. We do know that Yehovah wanted them to love him, as he does us. To love freely, we must have a choice to choose. Adam and eve were tempted by a fruit that probably smelled good and was sweet to eat.
Our fruit may be drugs, porn, alcohol, our house, sports, or many other things. Like the tree of good and evil, it draws us. We have the same choice as Adam and eve choose the bad fruit over the good. Yeshua wants us to eat of the tree with good fruit. All sin is forbidden to believers. So we must always choose the good fruit from the tree of life, Yeshua
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I think by the name of the tree itself you can have the idea what type of fruit is this.
 
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They ate the fruit of their disobedience. Was it a piece of fruit? God could have said, do not
cross this line, and they would have done it. They put themselves on the throne wanting
to determine what was right and wrong for themselves. It is what ails the world.
 
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Godsgood said:
GENESIS 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

God put the forbidden tree in the garden because He gave them a choice for a choice if obeying God is true love.

Adam and Eve were created in the image of God an innocent nature in flesh.

Adam and Eve were created with no choice but they had to have a choice.

Adam and Eve could not sin for the only reality they could know was what God told them.

It would of never entered their mind to eat the forbidden fruit unless an outside source told them of another reality.

Since God wanted them to have a choice He allowed Satan to tempt Eve which she said they may eat of the the trees in the garden but the forbidden tree for that is all she could think and know.

So Satan tempted her with an alternate reality and she ate of the tree and sinned.

Then Eve was the outside source that tempted Adam that she did not die and no harm came to her and he ate and sinned.
 
Godsgood said:
GENESIS 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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It's a bit hard to understand. It seems to me, the knowledge of good and evil is something reserved for God alone. The knowledge of good and evil in human hands leads to all kinds of problems since it involves good and evil from a human perspective.
 
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Godsgood said:
GENESIS 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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Are you asking to learn, or as a pretext for sharing your view?
 
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Well scripture says that God desired a people unto Himself to love Him and Worship Him and bring Him Glory.

I (theorize) that perhaps we were in Heaven at the time that Lucifer fell and we may have seen him cast down. Maybe one of asked the Lord, why did you cast them down?
And God prolly said because his thoughts were evil...
What is evil, Lord?
The opposite of righteousness and Love...

But we had never seen or experienced evil before that so we could not under either love or evil.

So the Lord decided to make the Earth into the University of Brotherly Love, to teach us about love.

But you can not teach someone about Love unless you grant them Free Will...(Fact).

So we had to have a rule to follow in the garden of Eden. What's it say? I have set before you life and death, therefore choose life? And...we messed up.

Gee Whiz Look at us Now!
Tell you what, next time I'ma' keep my mouth shut and trust the Lord!
 
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James 1 verses 14-15; 1 John 2 verse 16 Each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. For all that is in the world- the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life- is not from the Father but from the world. .:)
 
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Godsgood said:
GENESIS 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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Evil, would take over the flesh body, and now known as the sin nature, death came to all flesh. Evil Got Adam and Eve to eat over deception, they would be like God. When, Evil Satan wanted to be God over them, and God himself. Yet that did not happen, not everyone gives Creedence to Satan or God, some to the self over everything else. Yet, since this did happen and is unbelief, to God loves us all and wants only the best for us all Jeremiah 29:11, having understanding of good and evil, is best, why?
That God is the only one good, and Jesus was clear on this in Matthew 19 to us to believe God does just love us all, otherwise the cross would not have ever taken place or would it have, you decide?
And without the knowledge of good and evil, we would not be free to choose and would be puppets not knowing good and evil!
therefore, I conclude God loves us all y'all
 
Godsgood said:
GENESIS 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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Romans 4: 15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Did you ever wonder why just Adam and Eve were not punished for their disobedience. The reason all humans are affected is because when they ate from that tree, they developed a conscience. If they disobeyed some other command from God, only they would have been punished. When they ate from that tree, not only did they develop a conscience, they handed this knowledge of right and wrong to their descendents. This knowledge is a law unto itself because we all know what is right and what is wrong. Eating from this tree condemned all humans. The type of fruit is immaterial.
 
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Godsgood said:
GENESIS 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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decipher said:
Romans 4: 15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Did you ever wonder why just Adam and Eve were not punished for their disobedience. The reason all humans are affected is because when they ate from that tree, they developed a conscience. If they disobeyed some other command from God, only they would have been punished. When they ate from that tree, not only did they develop a conscience, they handed this knowledge of right and wrong to their descendents. This knowledge is a law unto itself because we all know what is right and what is wrong. Eating from this tree condemned all humans. The type of fruit is immaterial.
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The dictionary does refer to fruit as one's descendants or offspring. A family planning. Procreation. The opposite of forbidden also means allowable, sanctioned. Distinguing rights and wrongs is function of parenting. And, if one doesn’t complete their relationship with their parents, all their relationships will be about their parents. Am I onto something here?
 
It is really quite simple. Something that is needlessly way over-complicated in many regards.

Our Father is a loving Father. We are His Children. He is our protector, and He knows best. He simply instructed Adam and Eve to not become aware of Evil. This is something that every loving father does today. We protect our children from the evils of the world and hide them from the horrible things we know exist out there in the world. We raise our children to do the good things that they should, as it will serve and help them.

Evil and the knowledge of such is a curse, because once you know the wrong way, it becomes an option. Hence when they ate the fruit and gained the knowledge of evil the option of fear and worry became reality. Nudity was not a problem until all the evils involving it became known; shame, lust etc.

Our Father in Heaven never wanted us to know evil. Why? Because it only harms us, it is a sickness. Eve's ill.

This is why Adam and Eve were removed from the garden, because if they were to obtain Eternal Life from the other forbidden tree, then they would be eternally cursed. But don't worry through the LORD Jesus Christ, the curse is removed and eternal life is granted. Revelation 22:3
 
Why God the Father considered this fruit as forbidden?


This had nothing to do with the fruit -----this was about obeying a command --and having Free choice ---and God already knew that they would not obey the Command ----Adam and Eve only knew Blessings --and they only had One Choice ---to commune with God -----in their Paradise

God did't want to be a dictator --or a puppet master where everyone only had the one choice -----God wanted His Human creation to have a choice ----He had already given the Angel free choice and wanted the same for His Human creation ----He wanted people to choose Him by their own choice -----

So he needed an enemy ----Satan -----to come into the picture in the Garden to Temp Adam and Eve to choose whether to obey His Command or Rebel against it -----He already knew what they would do ------but his free will to choose was then in place ---and on their shoulders to be Faithful to Him --or reject him -----

and we know the rest of the Story -------
 
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Is it wise to question why God made a decision?
The wise thing to do, the righteous thing to do is not to question God as to why or why not. Just say A-man and do the best you can to do as He commanded and avoid doing what He said not to do.
 
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Is it wise to question why God made a decision?
The wise thing to do, the righteous thing to do is not to question God as to why or why not. Just say A-man and do the best you can to do as He commanded and avoid doing what He said not to do.
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You are missing something here. The motivation is what makes the questioning wrong or not. Sometimes the motivation bleeds through the written words, but God knows without words. If He sees the wrong motive, He knows how to address it.
 
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