Why God the Father considered this fruit as forbidden?

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If I'm attacking you personally. I will tell to myself that you don't have a chance to see the truth anymore.

But I'm leaving to God the Father and hoping someday you will humble yourself so God the Father will introduce himself to you.

Because who can say on that time that Saul of Tarsus become an Apostle.
Yet more personal attacks.

This is a BIBLE discussion forum. Either get on with discussing the Bible or get off the forum.
 
*You shall not steal.
They crucified the malefactors as a punishment for You shall not Steal.
Wrong! The Romans, not the Jews, crucified the two “malefactors”.

With what they obey with the commandments of God. They gained happy & peaceful living.
And the Jews belief that is what God the Father wants that is why God gave his commandments.
So the Jews became contented and have no enthusiasm to know who God the Father is.
None of that is in Scripture.

Again, this is a BIBLE discussion forum, not an Eisegesis discussion forum.
 
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More personal attacks instead of discussion of Scripture.

More personal attacks
It is in your perception if you say I'm attacking you personally.

As I've said before, would you consider a personal attack of Lord Jesus Christ to the Jews & Pharisees what he said to them in Matt Chapter 23?
The Lord was telling the truth to them and not attacking them.

instead of discussion of Scripture
The discussion of Scripture is not just to have the knowledge. But how to have the wisdom from God.

We are not to please anybody but to search for the truth.
And Lord Jesus said the truth hurts.
HEBREWS 4:12
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

And the truth is you failed the test (1 John 4:1) . And so there is no truth within you.
The Lord Jesus keep on waking you up because you are spiritually sleeping (hopefully and not spiritual dead at all).
As you mentioned, YAWN!
 
But if we use our own intellect to understand what happened. It seems like the serpent was the
one telling the truth and God the Father was lying because Adam & Eve didn't die on that day.
"In dying you shall die."
 
Yet more personal attacks.

This is a BIBLE discussion forum. Either get on with discussing the Bible or get off the forum.


get off the forum.
Because you failed the test in 1 John 4:1 you've been exposed by Lord Jesus Christ since then, and exposed who you are.

No wonder why your way is completely a contradiction of God the Father's way.
In your way you want me to leave in this forum and if possible not to join anymore.
Even in your own belief that what I share is not a truth. But you should not ask me to get off.

Look at the way of God the Father. Instead of letting the people to kill Cain but he protected him.
Because God the Father wants to stay Cain although Cain is an evil
GENESIS 4:15
15 And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Then look at Lord Jesus Christ. Instead of banning Satan so he will not go near the chosen of God because Satan is an evil. But instead he gave Satan a permission to go near and tempt them.
LUKE 22:31-32
31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

Because through Cain and Satan, God will found those people who humble themselves and deserve to be with God in the everlasting life.
But despite of that Cain and Satan will still face the damnation.

So I'm asking you not to leave this forum. Please stay. And continue your criticism in every post if possible in every thread..

Because your criticism could be used, so people who are seeking the truth will see for themselves how arrogant a man is in the eyes of God and will humble themselves and ask for God's Mercy.

Despite of that you still face the damnation.
 
get off the forum.
Because you failed the test in 1 John 4:1 you've been exposed by Lord Jesus Christ since then, and exposed who you are.

No wonder why your way is completely a contradiction of God the Father's way.
In your way you want me to leave in this forum and if possible not to join anymore.
Even in your own belief that what I share is not a truth. But you should not ask me to get off.

Look at the way of God the Father. Instead of letting the people to kill Cain but he protected him.
Because God the Father wants to stay Cain although Cain is an evil
GENESIS 4:15
15 And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Then look at Lord Jesus Christ. Instead of banning Satan so he will not go near the chosen of God because Satan is an evil. But instead he gave Satan a permission to go near and tempt them.
LUKE 22:31-32
31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

Because through Cain and Satan, God will found those people who humble themselves and deserve to be with God in the everlasting life.
But despite of that Cain and Satan will still face the damnation.

So I'm asking you not to leave this forum. Please stay. And continue your criticism in every post if possible in every thread..

Because your criticism could be used, so people who are seeking the truth will see for themselves how arrogant a man is in the eyes of God and will humble themselves and ask for God's Mercy.

Despite of that you still face the damnation.
I yawn in your ignorant judgmental face.
 
I yawn in your ignorant judgmental face.

I yawn in your ignorant judgmental face
This kind of attitude never saw to Lord Jesus as the Son of the living God.
Instead, he shared the truth.

If you are in the truth, you never do the Yawning.

This is what Lord Jesus told to his chosen who are in the truth.
MATTHEW 5:44
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

No wonder why you don't understand, what is the truth (Proverbs 2:6).
 
1st Description of the forbidden fruit.
1. It is Good for Food.

When the Lord Jesus, about to start his 3 years of ministry.
He found the Scribes & Pharisees (religious leaders on that time) were preaching the word of God to the Jews.
Then the Jews were obeying the Commandments of God.

*You shall not commit adultery.
They brought Mary Magdalene to Jesus to punish her.

*You shall not steal.
They crucified the malefactors as a punishment for You shall not Steal.

With what they obey with the commandments of God. They gained happy & peaceful living.
And the Jews belief that is what God the Father wants that is why God gave his commandments.
So the Jews became contented and have no enthusiasm to know who God the Father is.

When Jesus arrived he rejected their belief. because their contentment means they considered the word of God as Good Food only.

So Jesus rebuked them by giving the 2 great commandments and which is the first commandment of all.
And one of the Scribes humble himself and he understand Jesus rebuked
MARK 12:28-31
28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

This is what the Lord Jesus said for a thing that can be seen.
Being contentment on what can see is deceitful.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:18
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
 
This is what the Lord Jesus said for a thing that can be seen.
Being contentment on what can see is deceitful.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:18
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

1. It is Good for Food.

2. It is pleasant to the eyes.
It means by looking at it. It is attractive & impressive.
 
1. It is Good for Food.

2. It is pleasant to the eyes.
It means by looking at it. It is attractive & impressive.

Try to imagine a community whose all residences are following the Ten Commandments of God in literal meaning.
They don't steal, they don't commit adultery, they don't kill, they honor their parents, they help and love each other and so on.
The result is a zero crime rate. We can consider that place as a model community.

Therefore by obeying the commandments of God in letter it is pleasant to the eyes.

But our Lord Jesus emphasize that this pleasant to the eyes is not a basis to salvation but by being a good citizen only.
It is for the government and not for God.
MATTHEW 22:21
21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
 
Try to imagine a community whose all residences are following the Ten Commandments of God in literal meaning.
They don't steal, they don't commit adultery, they don't kill, they honor their parents, they help and love each other and so on.
The result is a zero crime rate. We can consider that place as a model community.

Therefore by obeying the commandments of God in letter it is pleasant to the eyes.

But our Lord Jesus emphasize that this pleasant to the eyes is not a basis to salvation but by being a good citizen only.
It is for the government and not for God.
MATTHEW 22:21
21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
You have mixed up unrelated issues and made meaningless mud.
 
God forbade eating or experiencing evil or making evil actual instead of merely theoretical, because what makes disregarding GW evil is dying and experiencing a just hell.
 
Try to imagine a community whose all residences are following the Ten Commandments of God in literal meaning.
They don't steal, they don't commit adultery, they don't kill, they honor their parents, they help and love each other and so on.
The result is a zero crime rate. We can consider that place as a model community.

Therefore by obeying the commandments of God in letter it is pleasant to the eyes.

But our Lord Jesus emphasize that this pleasant to the eyes is not a basis to salvation but by being a good citizen only.
It is for the government and not for God.
MATTHEW 22:21
21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

What happened to Adam & Eve is not just a story that is already passed and not happening anymore.

Lord Jesus proves that what happened in the time of Noah was not an ordinary story that passed and never happened again. Because he saw it in his time.
MATTHEW 24:37-39
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Therefore what happened to Adam & Eve when eating the forbidden fruit saw also by Jesus Christ in his time.
 
What happened to Adam & Eve is not just a story that is already passed and not happening anymore.

Lord Jesus proves that what happened in the time of Noah was not an ordinary story that passed and never happened again. Because he saw it in his time.
MATTHEW 24:37-39
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Therefore what happened to Adam & Eve when eating the forbidden fruit saw also by Jesus Christ in his time.
Wow… this is just ridiculous. Jesus saw Adam and Eve, and Noah, and He also prophesied that another time like Noah’s was coming. You have badly misunderstood what Jesus said.
 
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Because you failed the test (1 JOHN 4:1)
Then you never understand it (Proverbs 2:6)
I don’t value your silly opinions regarding my relationship with God; they are irrelevant. You are still wrong and your stubborn resistance to correction is not doing you any good.
 
Wow… this is just ridiculous. Jesus saw Adam and Eve, and Noah, and He also prophesied that another time like Noah’s was coming. You have badly misunderstood what Jesus said.


Lord Jesus never mistaken with this verse.
1 CORINTHIANS 2:14
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Because your recognition to Jesus is not a revelation from the Father, you are considered as Natural Man. There is no way for you to understand what is the truth.

The Lord Jesus is referring to the scenario during the times of Adam & Eve and Noah. He proves that his words never pass away (Matt 24:35)
 
I don’t value your silly opinions regarding my relationship with God; they are irrelevant. You are still wrong and your stubborn resistance to correction is not doing you any good.

I don’t value your silly opinions regarding my relationship with God;
What matters is the truth and not what you believe.
As I always said, you may stick with your belief that you have a relationship with the Father.

How would you have a relationship with the Father and yet you don't know who he is?
That is why you failed the test.
 
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.
Our desires cloud our judgement so that if we lean on our own understanding, then we can't be sure if something is truly good or if we just thing that it is good, and there are a number of ways where Eve's desire clouded her judgment (Genesis 3:6). When we desire to do something that God has commanded against or vice versa, then we have a choice between whether we are going to lean on our own understanding of right and wrong by doing what is right in our own eyes or whether we are going to trust in God with all of our heart to correctly divide between right and wrong by obeying His law in all of our ways and He will make our way straight, which is the choice between the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life (Proverbs 3:1-7, 16-18).

Adam and Eve were at a crossroads between eternal life and morality before they had eaten from either tree, where eating from the Tree of Life would have caused them to have eternal life while eating from the Tree of Knowledge caused them to become mortal. In Deuteronomy 30:16-20, the Israelites were at the same crossroads between life and death, where they would have life if they chose to be a doer of God's law or death if they chose to do what was right in their own eyes instead.
 
Try to imagine a community whose all residences are following the Ten Commandments of God in literal meaning.
They don't steal, they don't commit adultery, they don't kill, they honor their parents, they help and love each other and so on.
The result is a zero crime rate. We can consider that place as a model community.

Therefore by obeying the commandments of God in letter it is pleasant to the eyes.

But our Lord Jesus emphasize that this pleasant to the eyes is not a basis to salvation but by being a good citizen only.
It is for the government and not for God.
MATTHEW 22:21
21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

Another thing that is why Eve was tempted to bite the forbidden fruit.
It could make a person wise.
3. It makes a person wise.