Tree Of Knowledge

[nailit]

A question for the Christians here.
According to the Bible Adam and Eve bought sin in to the world because they ate of the tree of knowledge.
What exactly is wrong with knowledge?

Ive never received a satisfactory answer.

[Khandro]

//Much of the Bible is symbolic, the problem is most people take it literally.//

Yes, Vulcan, including and surprisingly jim it appears.

[naomi24]

How do you decide which bits are symbolic and which are not, Khandro?

[Zacs-Master]

And you talk about Groundhog Day on the Patten thread Naomi. You need to take a long hard look at yourself, my girl. Sheesh.

[jim360]

I wasn't taking it literally, I was just having a joke. Sheesh :P

[naomi24]

Ah, poor Zacs. Still smarting. Never mind. You'll get over it ... or perhaps not. ;o)

[Zacs-Master]

I just like pointing out your hypocrisy whenever the occasion arises Naomi. And it seems to be a purple patch at the mo. Keep setting em up and I’ll knock em down sweetie.

[naomi24]

Haaaa! Coo, you don't half sound tough, Zacs. :o)

[Zacs-Master]

Zacs strokes the white cat on his knee and adjusts his monocle.

[Khandro]

One clever thing about these OT bible stories is that it embeds its rules in highly dramatic tales to illustrate their message to an almost entirely illiterate audience. 'Illiterate' does not equate to stupid, though anyone reading them today who believes they are literally true is literate, but stupid, and there are several of them on here.

[Zacs-Master]

How did they read the stories if they were illiterate?

[jim360]

Because entirely honest people who certainly didn't have an agenda of establishing control through fear of eternal damnation told them the stories, ZM!

[Zacs-Master]

If they were told the stories, the fact that they were illiterate is irrelevant.

[naomi24]

Khandro, I’ll ask you again. How do you know which bits are symbolic and which are not? Did Jesus really walk on water, or turn water into wine, or miraculously heal people; did Balaam’s donkey really talk, did that writing really appear on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast …. or are all those stories symbolic? So many questions.

[nailit]

Christians pick and choose Naomi, literal when it suits, symbolic when it doesn't.

[Khandro]

//did Balaam’s donkey really talk//

Yes, but I can't remember its name, though I think it began with n.

[naomi24]

Oh dear, Khandro. You appear to have inadvertently knotted your knickers again. You wouldn't be one of those you referred to in the final couple of lines of your post at 14:11, would you?

[Khandro]

norman !! that was it; norman.

[dunnitall]

Okay! So I dip into fully understand the question...however I recall someone once saying to me.... Cain or Able took a wife! How was this possible when 'god' created Adam. Eve and they beget Caine n Abel I may be wrong here....however one took a wife?!! From whence did this wife come? If HE on
Y created adam n Eve where the fffffck did this wife come from?? Please tell me as I've been unknowing for yrs!

[Mamyalynne]

https://bible.org/question/was-world-populated-through-incest-or-did-god-create-others-besides-adam-and-eve

[naomi24]

dunnitall, in a fit of jealousy (understandable really, since God was pretty unfair to him) Cain murdered his brother Abel and was subsequently banished from Eden. He married a woman from the Land of Nod which was allegedly located somewhere to the east of Eden. There are two distinct accounts of the creation of human life in the first pages of the bible, something the priests throughout the ages have failed to notice – or if they did have never told. First God created, in his image, man (a race rather than an individual – hence the ‘us’ referred to and hence the existence of the woman that Cain married) - then upon realising that man had no one to work the land for him God created Adam ‘from the dust of the ground and Eve from Adam’s rib. Adam, it appears, was created to serve ‘man’.