We need to phrase questions accurately.
A better OP title would be “why did/does God forbid?”
And it is wise to ask God rather than doubt Him.
Why God the Father considered this fruit as forbidden?
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We need to phrase questions accurately.
A better OP title would be “why did/does God forbid?”
And it is wise to ask God rather than doubt Him.
I think Adam & Eve prolly ate from the tree of life regularly before the fall. After their fall is when they had to guard it.
I have answered this in post #15.
We could not handle the knowledge. Evidence? Adam and Eve instantly felt fearful and ashamed of themselves, due to all the evil possibilities running through their minds. They were once pure and unaware of such things and lived without fear.
Evil is simply the wrong of anything. Do not think evil in terms of hollywood horrors, that would be wickedness, a branch of evil. Evil covers literally everything and anything that should not be. God created all things, and all things have set purposes, uses and actions. All things were created good. But anything viewed through the eyes of evil can and will twist all sorts of things in all manner of ways.
Hence, Matthew 6:22.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
We were only ever meant to know good and experience good. And this is what is promised to us at the end, thanks to the LORD Jesus Christ.
Genesis 2 verse 17 you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
Perhaps, yes. The wording in Genesis 2:9 could seem to separate food and the tree of life if read in such a way as to see the ";" as an addition rather than further explanation.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
However, Genesis 2:17 certainly clarifies that specifically the tree of knowledge of good and evil should never be consumed.
Such details we have been spared, but interesting none the less.
Your answer begs another question: Because God knew humans could not handle the knowledge of good and evil,
why did He plant it and command them not to eat it?
There is nothing in the text to suggest such. What the text does say is, And now, lest he reach out
his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...” Therefore the
LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden. If they had already eaten from the Tree of
Life why would they even die? Saying they did makes no sense. They were alive by virtue of God
breathing the breath of life into them, same as the animals.
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The tree of the knowledge of good and evil wasn't a bad tree per se. When
God looked over His handiwork, He pronounced it all not just good, but very
good, viz: the cosmos-- all its forms of life, matter, and energy --had zero
defects because it all came out just the way He wanted. (Gen 1:31)
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The tree of the knowledge of good and evil wasn't a bad tree per se. When
God looked over His handiwork, He pronounced it all not just good, but very
good, viz: the cosmos-- all its forms of life, matter, and energy --had zero
defects because it all came out just the way He wanted. (Gen 1:31)
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Yes, and questions this truth implies include:
Why was/is good and evil good?
How did A&E's sin come out the way God wanted?
I don't the answer for sure but I thought it sort of suggested that they (could be) eating from the tree of life normally because, it doesn't tell them not to eat from it. It only says dont eat from the tree of Knowledge.
I don't know. Do you think that one bite from the tree of life and then they never need to eat from it again?
Plus, Adam lived for 930 years. Without eating from the tree of life. Maybe it took awhile for the effects to wear off and if he should eat more, then live for another 1000 years or whatever?
It's all speculation. We can presume one thing for sure. The fruit from the tree of life...supports life! I bet it tastes good too!
He only made that tree so He could give us a rule? Because he had granted us free will? I think He wants to teach us about Love but one can not teach someone about Love without giving them free will. and they messed up and chose poorly.
I do not think it is speculation when they were prevented from eating from the Tree of Life specifically
so they would not live forever after. And of course it is taken to mean God did not want them living
forever after in their sinful state, and the gospel message was first foreshadowed at that time.
How many bites from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil condemned them?
"You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
What you might be onto is:
Proverbs 23:1-7
Thought controls, belief in thought(s) defiantly controls people
Ask Daddy, Father, PaPa, Father reveals truth to us each as needed to know, depending where one's walk might be. For me it started out with, thank you Dad, I am forgiven by you through Son, that is risen as proof.
Now Dad, PaPa, Father I need truth over so many errors I see in this world that even work bad though me too
Do you think Father will throw you out? I think and know not, I Tok a walk off a short pier daily forever it seemed like. Yet I remained, remain in trust to God PaPa, Daddy, Father in risen Son forever by this love and mercy, no matter what, Dad is good all the time as good is Father, PaPa all the time
Yes, we should not question God the Father in his commandment.
But we can ask him the reason why it is forbidden?
In Exodus Chapter 3 to 4. Look at the conversation of God the Father & Moises.
When God the Father sent Moises in Egypt. God the father was telling to Moises the reason why he sending him back to Egypt. And God the Father also said the reason why the Israelites should be bring out from Egypt.
This is why it is allowable to God to ask the reason why the Fruit is Forbidden.
[Rom 7:5-6, 8-10 KJV]
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter. ...
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.