What is the Tree of Knowledge?

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  1. Bishadi Banned Banned

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    Many variations to this but to me this would mean the evolution of knowledge.

    Knowledge evolves.

    Words are the creation of mankind.

    Here are the main items, and find the version Youngs Literal Translation


    http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen 2;&version=15;
    Tree of knowledge?!?

    SUmmary: God says, don't, you will die. Serpant, say Nope, your eyes will be opened and you won't die.

    They eat, becoming aware (conscious), put on fig leafs (self-aware) and then hide.

    But then the climax of the story



    After telling the serpant how bad he is, Adam tells Eve she will be mom of 'all living'.... God, gives them new threads, and then says 'man was as of Us' and will live after taking from the tree

    in words, from the bible and yet opinions will vary!

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    I personally believe the adam and eve story could be corrected to be evolved from atoms and energy. The apple day, was the day consciousness was born. Then we (mankind) became capable of learning (adam named his wife). The tree of knowledge could be the evolution of knowledge. In a sense the single creation that isolated mankind from the garden was words, beliefs and a whole bunch of tangents.

    I say, when the pinnacle of knowlegde is reached, then mass (mankind) will be able to comprehend its existence.

    The tree of knowledge; existence defining itself!
     
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  3. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    The tree of knowledge was a computer which humans somehow managed to access without "authorization".
     
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  8. Cris In search of Immortality Valued Senior Member

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    Bishadi,

    Bit of a stretch.

    There was no "tree of knowledge" but only the tree that gave the knowledge of "good and evil". It is the later clause that is key to the story.

    The story is also a catch-22. Without possessing the knowledge of good and evil A&E would not have known that disobeying God was a bad thing to do, until after they had eaten - oops too late.
     
  9. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    It is natural to surmise the 'the tree of good and evil' might be relating to 'the awakening of conscience or consciousness' from out earlier animal state. What is strange is the verse that says 'now that they have eaten of the fruit of knowledge (of good and evil) they have become as one of us--don't forget these are supposed to be God's words. What is even stranger is the fact that the scribes over the ages left that bit in. Because surely, that statement implies that there were or are more gods than just the one that is making the complaint.
     
  10. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    And of course that humans are (and have been since Eve picked fruit over a Big Mac) gods.
     
  11. jsmith91 Registered Member

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    well there was a book in the bible that was taken out because there were alot of them that like idk roman catholic priests decided to take out and one that was written by abraham, or at least that what the jewish people believe" said that adam and eve had their own level of "perfection" and Gods perfection was just higher-the ultimate, and so they basically got bored with what they had and satan saw that it was easy to tempt them and trick them and so by gaining that knowledge and achieving what they thought would be the ultimate perfection, they ended up having sickness, death, and sin in their lives
     
  12. Bishadi Banned Banned

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    please provide the information on that book

    here is a list of books, and they are in three languages to cross reference the old to english, etc....

    what book are you talking about. If if is talmud or interpretations, then i am not interested. As even Ted Haggart or even Dante did a bunch of that too.


    The garden is that 'ultimate'......... as within, all is according to the laws of the boss (God/nature)

    all BS from interpretationary 'creations' to the literature (remember mankind created ALL words)

    to start with, life is still on the earth, so adam and eve NEVER died.

    second; the knowledge of good and evil is how we can comprehend choice. Without choice, we are still instinctive animals.

    As instinctive animals we REMAIN in the garden (nature).

    It is from the choices of mankind, we can know unconditional LOVE.

    Without consciousness and choice, the words we are communicating with would not exist.

    Stay focused on reality and not the ideas of beliefs!

    the 'tree of knowledge' can be likened to the 'evolution of truth'

    that pinnacle is when mankind (us/we the people) can comprehend reality, life and what we are and be able to make the pure choices of Good and Bad

    to live to the ages by choice!

    Honoring God (nature/existence) is to be honest and never create/pursue/follow a lie, just because of our own selfishness and need of acceptance by our peers; our duty is to be honest with 'reality" (God) over all.

    The liars are the dying.

    Be certain when each know the truth, find the false preachers and teachers will reap the most horid of judgment.
     

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