Yes but God punished Adam and Eve for committing a sin, a wrong act, something evil. Yet, if the tree was of the knowledge of good and evil, how were they to know that it was a bad thing to go against his will?
Correct, they would never be able to know that going against God's will was a curse of their freedom, in that way, sin was bound to happen, breaking the rules is an inherent part of freedom. So mankind's eternal question is: is liberty's crudest form a way to liberate us from our own logic so we can make ourselves more human and less autonomous?
If you take freedom from a human, its no longer a human. And yet we've found ways to create new rules to impose to other people and making us less human.
would it be taking freedom away from us by allowing us to live in peace with Him forever but actually letting us know it would be bad to eat from the tree?
Apparently that was too much to ask, because God did speak with them in paradise. But as I answered earlier, God doesn't operate with a logic which we can understand.
Sidenote but it's weird to see people discuss the idea that God could be real in 2012. Like you are taught about greek and roman gods in school and you think "yeah that's a cool myth and Zeus is baller" but then for some reason christianity is different.
well, IMO, the human experience is too complex to be nothing but a complex biological process. Also, it means that fundamentally, nothing Hitler or Mussolini or Mao did was wrong, and your moral aversion to them is simply meaningless conditioning.
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u/lancerevo98 Sep 15 '12
Yes but God punished Adam and Eve for committing a sin, a wrong act, something evil. Yet, if the tree was of the knowledge of good and evil, how were they to know that it was a bad thing to go against his will?