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According to God, Genesis 2:
What was wrong with Adam and Eve knowing good and evil?
God did not want man to have this ability to decide on his own independently what was good and evil apart from God's standard. But the serpent had other ideas. It tempted Eve in Genesis 3:
The Hebrew word for "knowing" was H3045. It was a common word that appeared 942 times.
Brown-Driver-Briggs:
According to Eve:
Strong's 7919: To be, circumspect, intelligent
Eve wanted to be wise to do her own thinking and make her own decisions. By eating, Adam and Eve would acquire their own abilities to decide what was good or bad, apart from God. And it happened right away:
But have no fear; God will make the reconnection by the Paraclete. The Paraclete is our spirit's legal counselor. He makes the judgment calls, advises us on good and bad, and guides us to walk in the Spirit.
This was not just knowledge but knowledge of good and evil, i.e., knowledge of morality. Before the fall, everything was good according to their conscience provided by God alone.17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
What was wrong with Adam and Eve knowing good and evil?
God did not want man to have this ability to decide on his own independently what was good and evil apart from God's standard. But the serpent had other ideas. It tempted Eve in Genesis 3:
Right, they would be like God, having this ability to decide morality. Only God was supposed to decide what was good and evil. Men are not supposed to decide on morality.5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
The Hebrew word for "knowing" was H3045. It was a common word that appeared 942 times.
Brown-Driver-Briggs:
Adam and Eve would experience good and evil if they ate.know by experience
According to Eve:
There was an internal conflict: On the one hand, it looked good to eat. On the other hand, according to God, it was not good for her to eat that. But it looked delicious. Eve wanted to decide what was good or not by her own thinking process.6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food
for obtaining wisdom,and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,
Strong's 7919: To be, circumspect, intelligent
Eve wanted to be wise to do her own thinking and make her own decisions. By eating, Adam and Eve would acquire their own abilities to decide what was good or bad, apart from God. And it happened right away:
Eve was deceived.she took of its fruit and ate,
Adam fell with her.and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
At this point, they thought that it was bad to be naked, which they didn't think about before they ate. God didn't think that either. Their consciences were now independent of God due to their 1st disobedience.7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
But have no fear; God will make the reconnection by the Paraclete. The Paraclete is our spirit's legal counselor. He makes the judgment calls, advises us on good and bad, and guides us to walk in the Spirit.
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