God did not let Adam and
Eve eat from the Tree of Life (immortality) because he did not want man to live forever - it would have ruined God's plan.
And he equated Adam and Eve
with eating from the tree of «knowledge» aka, don't send your kids to school, make them stay home and isolate them from the rest of the world which is bad no matter what.
And to Adam he said: «Because you listened to your wife's voice and took to
eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, «You must not eat from it,» cursed is the ground on your account.
it is called RETRIBUTION, PAY BACK AND KARMA... THE ONLY CHRISTIAN WORLD IS IN EUROPE... RETURN BACK then you can practice your watered down religion all you like... ISLAM was the religion given to ATOM and EVE, once
EVE ate from the TREE the people became HEBREWS AND from HEBREWS then to CHRISTIANS and from CHRISTIANs back to ISLAM...
In an untitled work from 1966, one
figure eats from a tree while another boxed figure defecates, watched from above by one myopic figure and cajoled by another — an Orwellian allegory, perhaps, for an existence where every gesture is observed and controlled.
Before leaving for Devon we had lots of delicious apples to
eat from our tree in the garden, so I decided to make these yummy cinnamon baked apples with rawnola (raw granola if you didn't guess!)
Many believe that in Genesis 2:16 - 17, God is threatening to punish Adam with death if
Adam eats from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Her personality also internalizes a specific understanding of Eve in pop culture (that of the trickster who manipulates Adam
into eating from the tree of knowledge), one that may or may not accurately reflect the Bible, but Aronofsky isn't particularly interested in accuracy here.
17 But to Adam he said, «Because you obeyed your wife and
ate from the tree about which I commanded you, «You must not eat from it,» cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Remain, that's interesting with what you say of course the «evil Eve» narrative has been down to a miss - interpretation as both Eve and Adam equally took part in
eating from the tree of knowledge.
Also, if Adam & Eve had no knowledge of right of wrong prior to
eating from the tree, how could they possibly know what disobeying god meant?
Are you suggesting god did nt know they would end up
eating from the tree?
They were simply told by God that they could
eat from any tree they desired but NOT this particular tree.
We ate from the tree of knowledge right?
Genesis 2:16 - 17 And the Lord God commanded the man, «You are free to
eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.»
We do not believe in orginal sin, did Adam ask us before
he eat from the tree?
No — not just for sins we supposedly committed, but for Adam and Eve's sin of
eating from the tree of knowledge — that fable that Christians use to splatter every last person, no matter how good and decent they are, with the guilt tar.
I always thought that Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden was somehow an act of Grace from God because he didn't want humans to
eat from the tree of life in a state of falleness so that they wouldn't be able to live eternally in a state that was fallen or with sin.
Please consider this: In the Garden of Eden, as seen in the Bible book of Genesis, not long after the creation of man and woman, an issue arose that affected everyone, for a rebel angel called into question God's right to rule, by asking Eve: «Is it really so that God said you must not
eat from every tree of the garden?»
Though many people consider work to be part of the curse that came upon humankind as a result of the fall in Genesis 3, the truth is that work was given to Adam and Eve prior to their choice to
eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
«And the LORD God commanded the man, «You are free to
eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.»
Everybody knows that Adam broke God's command to not
eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, so that explains why Adam died.
So when God said to Adam that if
he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that he would surely die I read it more as a threat than as a warning.
once
they ate from the tree of knowledge, they knew naked human = bad.
This episode of the One Verse Podcast shows how all of
us eat from this tree every single day, and how through His crucifixion, Jesus invites us to stop eating the fruit of this forbidden tree.
The original temptation was a choice between an interdependent relationship with God (
eating from the Tree of Life) or independence from God (eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil).