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Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Topic Started: Jul 4 2010, 12:23 PM (181 Views)
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What would be the purpose in creating this tree? It is forbidden to eat of the fruit and God claims the knowledge to be gained from eating the fruit is forbidden to man, yet God created the tree and then placed it in the Garden. Why? What purpose is served by creating such a tree?
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God did not create Adam to be a puppet. He gave him a free will. In the garden were the tree of life and also the tree of “death” (or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) which God told Adam that he could not eat of it or he would die. Adam had a choice – life or death. Unfortunately he chose death. But God in his wisdom and mercy provided a way for us to reconcile ourselves back to God through trusting in his Son Jesus Christ.
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You stated in another post that God knows even that which has yet to happen. He knew that by placing the tree in the Garden that the outcome would be suffering and pain. You claim that God is a god of love and compassion, justice and mercy, yet his actions are neither loving, compassionate, merciful nor just.
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You are confusing the difference between “knowing” the future and “Causing” the future. Man’s actions are neither loving, compassionate, merciful nor just. MAN is the cause of the position we are in, NOT God. God’s actions are JUST because he must judge sin (therefore suffering exists). But God’s actions are loving, compassionate and merciful since he has provided us a way out. Let me ask you - If I offered you a billion dollars right now for suffering through a hangnail, would you take it? That’s the gap between whatever suffering we endure now and the reward that awaits us in heaven. There is no one that has suffered a greater agony and death than Jesus did to provide us an escape for the judgment we deserve.
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