Can you answer a strange paradox?

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In Genesis, Adam and Eve are told to not eat from the tree of knowledge. Right away, God is saying that knowledge is against truth, why then has it come to pass that the Bible is studied itself for its knowledge? This is quite strange to me, perhaps someone can explain...
 
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In Genesis, Adam and Eve are told to not eat from the tree of knowledge. Right away, God is saying that knowledge is against truth, why then has it come to pass that the Bible is studied itself for its knowledge? This is quite strange to me, perhaps someone can explain...
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it's allegorical relating to how consciousness bifurcates from a whole into fragmented aspects, imo.

metta,

~v
 
Lunitik said:
In Genesis, Adam and Eve are told to not eat from the tree of knowledge. Right away, God is saying that knowledge is against truth, why then has it come to pass that the Bible is studied itself for its knowledge? This is quite strange to me, perhaps someone can explain...
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One way to explain this paradox is that the 'of knowledge' bit could well have been a distortion of man, for in Gods final revelation, nothing about it being the tree of knowledge is mentioned but just that it was a tree, and God just put that prohibition there to test Adam and Eve; this version is, as can be seen, 'paradox' free too! ;)
 
Lunitik said:
In Genesis, Adam and Eve are told to not eat from the tree of knowledge. Right away, God is saying that knowledge is against truth, why then has it come to pass that the Bible is studied itself for its knowledge? This is quite strange to me, perhaps someone can explain...
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If not taken literally, an interpretation is that the story is recognising that at some point in the past, humanity was uncivilised and lived as one with the animals. Humanity then did not have knowledge of what it could do. It was a time of innocence, in a way.

As humanity learned and developed and moved towards civilised society, it lost that connection with the animal world - and would never be able to go back to it.
 
The phrase 'tree of knowledge' is midleading and an intentional changing of the original story. The story of Adam and Eve is the story of humans first acquiring physical bodies and then engaging in sex. (When you think about how the story is about snakes chasing fruit, you see what I mean.)
 
07-30-2011 10:27 AM Lunitik Can you answer a strange paradox?
In Genesis, Adam and Eve are told to not eat from the tree of knowledge.
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t was not knowledge, but the knowledge of good and evil



Gen.2


16] And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
[17] But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
 
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