This is something that I have never understood. But to be honest, I have never done any extensive research on it, so hopefully this will be an enlightening thread for me as well as others.
Why did the Christian god create the tree of knowledge of good and evil and then place it in the garden? Moreover, why would he do it if he knew man would fall because of it (I'm assuming god is omniscient as Christians claim)? Isn't this like setting a toy in front of a child and demanding that they not touch it and then leaving the room, all the while knowing they will touch it and that you will have to punish them for it? I can actually understand doing that if one were trying to teach a child a particular lesson; maybe showing them that there are consequences for disobedience. It's still cruel to set them up like that. Regardless, man's punishment was not simply given to teach him a lesson. Everything changed after Adam and Eve ate the fruit. God cursed the ground, cursed man, cursed woman, new pains arose, new toils, man became mortal, animals became carnivores etc. Every hardship that every one of billions and billions of people has ever had to go through came from that one disobedient act.
So why did god do it? What purpose did it serve other than to ruin what he had created? After one of god's angels went bad, he had to kick him out of heaven. Then he creates his ultimate creation, man, and then shoves the very thing that will ruin man right in front of him and says, "don't touch." It almost seems like he is a glutton for punishment.
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
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