What is that Tree about?

[Xeno.of.athens]

You may eat anything you like from all the trees in the garden except!

Except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

What is that tree about. What exactly is the meaning of this prohibition?

 

[BobRyan]

You may eat anything you like from all the trees in the garden except!

Except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

What is that tree about. What exactly is the meaning of this prohibition?

It is literal -

16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.” (i.e - dying you will die)


God literally created all life on Earth in a literal 7 days
God literally created humans - Adam and Eve - exactly two people on the 6th day
There is literally a Tree of Life in Gen 2 and Rev 22 and in Rev 2...

There was literally a tree of knowledge of good and evil in Eden with literal fruit on it.
God's word said to not eat of that tree - literally not to eat. Plain, obvious, simple.
The act of eating would be an act of rebellion, an act of evil, an act of doubting God.... SIN
IT would mean adopting the sinful nature as consequence
It would mean "dying you shall die" - the dying process would begin.

Jer 17:10
10 I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.

that is exactly what we see in Gen 2 and Gen 3.

25 Bible verses about God Testing People

A topical Bible which shows the most relevant Bible verse for each topic

bible.knowing-jesus.com

 

[Maria Billingsley]

You may eat anything you like from all the trees in the garden except!

Except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

What is that tree about. What exactly is the meaning of this prohibition?

It's not about the tree. It's about the one command given to Adam and Eve, not to eat of that tree. They broke the one law given to them. The tree was the temptation.
Blessings

 

[bling]

You may eat anything you like from all the trees in the garden except!

Except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

What is that tree about. What exactly is the meaning of this prohibition?

God defines sin, so Adam and Eve have only one way to sin (even though Eve will show: lusting, coveting, selfishness, pride and maybe some laziness, those are not sins at the time). The tree is not some “test”, but God is giving them a very profound lesson to help them.

If they are not going to fulfill their earthly objective, they will not have the power to obey God forever and since they have no logical reason to humbly accept God’s Love as pure undeserved charity, prior to sinning, they will not fulfill their earthly objective.

The tree is something Eve especially would desire and that is “Knowledge” and at the time “knowledge” of evil (all the kinds of ways to sin), was not something Adam and Eve needed, they had only the one way to be disobedient.

God would know Eve would eventually sin and with the lies of satan to support her own desires, she will sin sooner than later, but after sinning Adam and Eve will have an extremely strong reason to humbly themselves to accept God’s pure undeserved charity in the form of forgiveness.

This world as it exists right now is the very best place for willing humans to fulfill their earthly objective, while as we learn from the Adam and Eve story, the Garden is a lousy (impossible) place to fulfill our earthly objective. We can thus be grateful to Adam and Eve for going through that situation and allowing us to learn from them. Adam and Eve prior to sinning did not fulfill their earthly objective in what we might consider an ideal situation. Adam and Eve were not made perfect like Christ is perfect that is not possible even for God, but man was made “very good” by God’s standard which can be as good as made beings could be made.

It is not that we want Adam and Eve to sin, but they will sin is both inevitable and necessary, since sin has purpose for the unbelieving sinner.

You have to understand mans and God’s objective in all this since like it should be in any organization the objective drives the conclusion:

• God is not trying to “get” something from man (man cannot “provide” anything for God), but God as pure unselfish charity is trying to give the greatest most powerful gifts possible to man. These gifts will enable man to be like God himself in that they will have Godly type Love (God is Love).
• Godly Love compels God to do all He does, so Love (which is God Himself) is the greatest force in all universes.
• There are things that just cannot be done even by God and one thing God cannot do is program a person to have Godly type Love (an instinctive love) since that love would be a robotic type love. God just cannot make a person who has always existed or He could make more Christs.
• God cannot force Godly type Love on a being, since that would be like a shotgun wedding with God holding the shotgun.
• This “Love” has to be the result of a “free will” choice with likely alternatives (those alternatives for man are “the perceived pleasures of sin for a season”).
• Man “not ever sinning” is not man’s objective, since obtaining and growing this Godly type Love is man’s objective (along with this Love God throws in heaven, eternal life, and a wonderful close relationship to sweeten the offer) we become like God Himself.

Why would God have a totally unselfish type of Love, since He personally would not get anything out of it? If God’s “Love” is some kind of knee jerk reaction, then it is really meaningless (something like; gravity which is nice to have, but everyone automatically has it). God Loves us in spite of what we have done, who we are or what we will do, so it has to be by His choice.



So, God would create the right universe for the sake of the individuals that will accept His gift (the most powerful force in all universes that compels even God to do all He does) and become like He is (the greatest gift He could give).

What keeps the all-powerful Creator from just giving whatever He wants to his creation?

Again there are just something even an all-powerful Creator cannot do (there are things impossible to do), the big inability for us is create humans with instinctive Godly type Love, since Godly type Love is not instinctive. Godly type love has to be the result of a free will decision by the being, to make it the person’s Love apart from God. In other words: If the Love was in a human from the human’s creation it would be a robotic type love and not a Godly type Love. Also if God “forces” this Love on a person (Kind a like a shotgun wedding) it would not be “loving” on God’s part and the love forced on the person would not be Godly type love. This Love has to be the result of a free will moral choice with real alternatives (for humans those alternatives include the perceived pleasures of sin for a season.)

This Love is way beyond anything humans could develop, obtain, learn, earn, pay back or ever deserve, so it must be the result of a gift that is accepted or rejected (a free will choice).

An unselfish God would be doing all He can to help willing individuals to make that free will decision to accept His Love. Again, since God will not be forcing these individuals, they have to be willing (it is their choice) and God cannot “make” them willing since that is robotic action. God can only at best make them free will agent (like God is) and capable of make the right decision without the selection being worthy of anything (it is a gift of pure charity).

This “Love” is much more than just an emotional feeling; it is God Himself (God is Love). If you see this Love you see God.

Let me just give you an example of How God works to help willing individuals.

All mature adults do stuff that hurts others (this is called sin) these transgressions weigh on them burden them to the point the individual seeks relief (at least early on before they allow their hearts to be hardened). Lots of “alternatives” can be tried for relief, but the only true relief comes from God with forgiveness (this forgiveness is pure charity [grace/mercy/Love]). The correct humble acceptance of this Forgiveness (Charity) automatically will result in Love (we are taught by Jesus and our own experience “…he that is forgiven much will Love much…”). Sin is thus made hugely significant, so there will be an unbelievable huge debt to be forgiven of and thus result in an unbelievable huge “Love” (Godly type Love).

 

[Grip Docility]

You may eat anything you like from all the trees in the garden except!

Except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

What is that tree about. What exactly is the meaning of this prohibition?

Xeno.of.athens, Wonderful question!

In my humble opinion, Mankind is given two options in the Garden of God. Mankind can TRUST in God's Perfection and Goodness as their Authority and Provider, Teacher and Corrector (As only a Loving Father Guides) OR

Mankind could partake in the Burden of delineating Good from Evil (LAW).​

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The King is the Authority and the Law belongs to the King, alone. Only the King is Perfect by the Law and capable of Judging, Prosecuting, Guiding Justly.

Per the Apostle Paul's words on this matter;

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.​

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1 Timothy 2:13,14, 15 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But, women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.​

The Angel of high authority in Eden, betrayed God and Mankind, by imputing the standards of Almighty God's responsibilities and Perfection, against Creation. The usurper in the picture was Satan. This is why Jesus says this during His ministry.

John 16:10,11 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me; 11 and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.​

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In 1 Timothy 2:12 "I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet", right before 2:13 and 14, Paul writes this.​

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In relation to God, through the Divine revelation of Spiritual teachings revealed through Patriarchy, All Created beings are feminine. The "man" in 1 Timothy 2:12 is none other than God.​

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In Genesis 1, God gives Willful Self Sovereignty (Free Will) / Dominion over Earth to Adam and Eve. The very word used in the Hebrew for Dominion denotes "Raja" active Verb given by Sultan (God), which results in the Noun Sultan to Mankind under the Provisional Authority of God. If the Hebrew verb for Raja is conjugated apart from the provision of God, it immediately becomes "Rebellion" by the Hebrew verbiage.​

Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.​

Satan desired the Authority of God (Isaiah 14:14, Ezekiel 28:15) and in Eden, he manipulated Mankind through Eve (The Mother of all Life) to "Usurp" (in 1 Timothy 2:12 the word is "exercise authority") Dominion over the earth in a fashion that placed Satan as active Authority over Earth, in-between Man and God.

1 Timothy isn't Paul saying women should shut up, but instead that Satan (A Creation) attempted to exercise authority over God by deceiving Eve to relinquish her God Given Freedom, under the Loving Guidance of God. The Good Shepherd was deceptively and maliciously replaced by Creation through the lies of Satan. God is the Loving Provider of all that is. Satan, that day, became Death Incarnate. (Hebrews 2:14, Genesis 3:14,15). God gives Satan the Power of death and simultaneously recites what is known as the Protoevangelium that very moment. At that moment, Earthly Creation (Not Heavenly Creation) became subject to the power of Death. Satan's effort to Usurp became the grasping of a Kingdom that was now slowly dying and ephemeral, because of the consequences of his lies and act of rebellion.

Paul is warning the Body of Jesus Christ that Satan will corrupt doctrine at every chance to remove Authority from Jesus Christ. He is imploring the Body to only submit to Jesus Christ as it's head and the Provision of His Holy Spirit as it's sole Teacher (1 John 2:27).

In final summation, Jesus has now fully Become our Tree of Life.

The Law of Moses (Which symbolizes the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil) is now pinned onto Satan as the Ministry of Death. The LAW is GOOD and Holy, but ONLY GOD is Good by the Law, the Fulfillment of the Law and the only rightful Arbitrator of the Law.

By Fulfilling the Law, Jesus Christ destroyed the Charges against mankind and God can now directly INDWELL Mankind as, again, Mankind's ONE True Teacher, Shepherd, Guide. God restrains and develops us, who are condemned by the Law of Moses, yet freed from the Law of Moses, through the Molding of our very human Spiritual Soul's through the Work of Love. Love had always been the Tree of Life. Law of Good and Evil (Absolute Moral Truth) had always only belonged to God, Who alone is worthy of that burden. God is Love and God IS the Law.

God fulfilled the Law of Moses, so that He could immediately indwell us and bind us to the Light Burden of "Love your neighbor as yourself". This is the Law of Love that through which all Grace, Compassion, Fruits of the Spirit Flow and their fruits flow only from the One True Living God.

Through Love, and the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, which cancels all of our debt to God, God asks us to Love and in only His power and way, works in a far more superior way with us than our carnal obedience to the Law of Moses could ever bring.

It is LOVE that Constrains us and it is Love that heals this dying world. It is by Love that He and the world shall know that we are disciples of Jesus Christ.

This is my opinion.​

 

[BobRyan]

It's not about the tree. It's about the one command given to Adam and Eve, not to eat of that tree. They broke the one law given to them. The tree was the temptation.
Blessings

They also could not take God's name in vain, bow down to graven images, lie ... etc All of that would also be sin.

 

[BobRyan]

God defines sin, so Adam and Eve have only one way to sin (even though Eve will show: lusting, coveting, selfishness, pride and maybe some laziness, those are not sins at the time). The tree is not some “test”

The tree is the test God give them. His Word says what the test will be.

The tree is something Eve especially would desire and that is “Knowledge”

Satan makes it out to be something even angels would want "you will be like God"

It is the argument that one can "evolve" to the next level - as the serpent was made to appear to eat of the tree and then "evolve" to be like man having the power of speech and having abstract thought concepts as indicated in its proposal to Eve.

God would know Eve would eventually sin

Just as He would know that Lucifer would fall and would take 1/3 of the angels and would then take down mankind.

We can thus be grateful to Adam and Eve for going through that situation and allowing us to learn from them. Adam and Eve prior to sinning did not fulfill their earthly objective in what we might consider an ideal situation. Adam and Eve were not made perfect

On the contrary -- they were made perfect as were all the angels , as was Lucifer Ezek 28 makes that clear. Perfect being still had the power of choice. Two thirds of the angels chose not to sin.

 

[Halbhh]

The 'knowledge of good and evil' represents beginning to judge and decide what is good and evil, and eating of that tree represents then assuming for ourselves that authority to judge good and evil, which is far better left to God, instead of ourselves.

Christ warned us about one of the evils we can do with this fruit -- judging other people themselves as people -- that judgmental judging we are not to do.

When Adam and Eve heard the tempting idea that God was simply lying to them and withholding a good thing...they chose to distrust God in that moment and believe the idea that God had lied to them and was holding back a good thing. Since faith is trusting in God, they broke faith in that moment.

We do not judge good and evil on our own well, but need to read all God said to learn better what is truly good....

As Christ said,
“It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

More about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in a short OP post:

https://www.christianforums.com/threads/explaining-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil-to-those-questioning.8298697/

You may eat anything you like from all the trees in the garden except!

Except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

What is that tree about. What exactly is the meaning of this prohibition?

 

[Grip Docility]

The 'knowledge of good and evil' represents beginning to judge and decide what is good and evil, and eating of that tree represents then assuming for ourselves that authority to judge good and evil, which is far better left to God, instead of ourselves.

Christ warned us about one of the evils we can do with this fruit -- judging other people themselves as people -- that judgmental judging we are not to do.

When Adam and Eve heard the tempting idea that God was simply lying to them and withholding a good thing...they chose to distrust God in that moment and believe the idea that God had lied to them and was holding back a good thing. Since faith is trusting in God, they broke faith in that moment.

We do not judge good and evil on our own well, but need to read all God said to learn....

As Christ said,
“It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

More about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in a short OP post:

https://www.christianforums.com/threads/explaining-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil-to-those-questioning.8298697/

Wow! It’s cool to see you post this! You’ve been studying it out for witness for quite some time!

 

[RandyPNW]

You may eat anything you like from all the trees in the garden except!

Except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

What is that tree about. What exactly is the meaning of this prohibition?

It seems to be about the process God is taking Satan through in order to judge his rebellion against Him. He is letting Satan run amok on earth, molesting and exploiting humanity to take out his passive aggression against God.

This tree was an open invitation to man to embrace freedom to obey or disobey God's word. It is the same freedom God was affording man that He had been affording Satan.

The significance of the tree is that it was a fruit tree, indicating that whatever choice is made will be reproduced in the lives of man's descendants. What they ate represented what would come out of the tree in the lives of their children, both good and evil.

God did not want any evil in His Kingdom. It was a bad choice to even consider eating from such a tree!

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Xeno.of.athens, Wonderful question!

In my humble opinion, Mankind is given two options in the Garden of God. Mankind can TRUST in God's Perfection and Goodness as their Authority and Provider, Teacher and Corrector (As only a Loving Father Guides) OR

Mankind could partake in the Burden of delineating Good from Evil (LAW).​

​

The King is the Authority and the Law belongs to the King, alone. Only the King is Perfect by the Law and capable of Judging, Prosecuting, Guiding Justly.

Per the Apostle Paul's words on this matter;

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.​

​

1 Timothy 2:13,14, 15 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But, women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.​

The Angel of high authority in Eden, betrayed God and Mankind, by imputing the standards of Almighty God's responsibilities and Perfection, against Creation. The usurper in the picture was Satan. This is why Jesus says this during His ministry.

John 16:10,11 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me; 11 and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.​

​

In 1 Timothy 2:12 "I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet", right before 2:13 and 14, Paul writes this.​

​

In relation to God, through the Divine revelation of Spiritual teachings revealed through Patriarchy, All Created beings are feminine. The "man" in 1 Timothy 2:12 is none other than God.​

​

In Genesis 1, God gives Willful Self Sovereignty (Free Will) / Dominion over Earth to Adam and Eve. The very word used in the Hebrew for Dominion denotes "Raja" active Verb given by Sultan (God), which results in the Noun Sultan to Mankind under the Provisional Authority of God. If the Hebrew verb for Raja is conjugated apart from the provision of God, it immediately becomes "Rebellion" by the Hebrew verbiage.​

Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.​

Satan desired the Authority of God (Isaiah 14:14, Ezekiel 28:15) and in Eden, he manipulated Mankind through Eve (The Mother of all Life) to "Usurp" (in 1 Timothy 2:12 the word is "exercise authority") Dominion over the earth in a fashion that placed Satan as active Authority over Earth, in-between Man and God.

1 Timothy isn't Paul saying women should shut up, but instead that Satan (A Creation) attempted to exercise authority over God by deceiving Eve to relinquish her God Given Freedom, under the Loving Guidance of God. The Good Shepherd was deceptively and maliciously replaced by Creation through the lies of Satan. God is the Loving Provider of all that is. Satan, that day, became Death Incarnate. (Hebrews 2:14, Genesis 3:14,15). God gives Satan the Power of death and simultaneously recites what is known as the Protoevangelium that very moment. At that moment, Earthly Creation (Not Heavenly Creation) became subject to the power of Death. Satan's effort to Usurp became the grasping of a Kingdom that was now slowly dying and ephemeral, because of the consequences of his lies and act of rebellion.

Paul is warning the Body of Jesus Christ that Satan will corrupt doctrine at every chance to remove Authority from Jesus Christ. He is imploring the Body to only submit to Jesus Christ as it's head and the Provision of His Holy Spirit as it's sole Teacher (1 John 2:27).

In final summation, Jesus has now fully Become our Tree of Life.

The Law of Moses (Which symbolizes the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil) is now pinned onto Satan as the Ministry of Death. The LAW is GOOD and Holy, but ONLY GOD is Good by the Law, the Fulfillment of the Law and the only rightful Arbitrator of the Law.

By Fulfilling the Law, Jesus Christ destroyed the Charges against mankind and God can now directly INDWELL Mankind as, again, Mankind's ONE True Teacher, Shepherd, Guide. God restrains and develops us, who are condemned by the Law of Moses, yet freed from the Law of Moses, through the Molding of our very human Spiritual Soul's through the Work of Love. Love had always been the Tree of Life. Law of Good and Evil (Absolute Moral Truth) had always only belonged to God, Who alone is worthy of that burden. God is Love and God IS the Law.

God fulfilled the Law of Moses, so that He could immediately indwell us and bind us to the Light Burden of "Love your neighbor as yourself". This is the Law of Love that through which all Grace, Compassion, Fruits of the Spirit Flow and their fruits flow only from the One True Living God.

Through Love, and the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, which cancels all of our debt to God, God asks us to Love and in only His power and way, works in a far more superior way with us than our carnal obedience to the Law of Moses could ever bring.

It is LOVE that Constrains us and it is Love that heals this dying world. It is by Love that He and the world shall know that we are disciples of Jesus Christ.

This is my opinion.​

I think it ultimately boils down to one choice: Should Adam have trusted God, or should he have determined for himself what is good and what is evil? Consuming the fruit from that tree led Adam and Eve to believe that they could discern good from evil on their own.

 

[Grip Docility]

I think it ultimately boils down to one choice: Should Adam have trusted God, or should he have determined for himself what is good and what is evil? Consuming the fruit from that tree led Adam and Eve to believe that they could discern good from evil on their own.

You are at the heart of it. I have a saying In reference to your exact words.

We, all of creation, make absolutely lousy and terrible god’s.

Amen!

 

[bling]

The tree is the test God give them. His Word says what the test will be.

If the results are inevitable, how is that a "test" and for whom?

Satan makes it out to be something even angels would want "you will be like God"

Something he would want, but I do not know about good angels.

It is the argument that one can "evolve" to the next level - as the serpent was made to appear to eat of the tree and then "evolve" to be like man having the power of speech and having abstract thought concepts as indicated in its proposal to Eve.

There is nothing about the serpent eating the fruit.

Just as He would know that Lucifer would fall and would take 1/3 of the angels and would then take down mankind.

Satan is not victorious, but he does have a job to do on earth.

On the contrary -- they were made perfect as were all the angels , as was Lucifer Ezek 28 makes that clear. Perfect being still had the power of choice. Two thirds of the angels chose not to sin.

"Perfect" can have a lot of different meaning they are not perfect like Christ is perfect.

 

[eleos1954]

You may eat anything you like from all the trees in the garden except!

Except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

What is that tree about. What exactly is the meaning of this prohibition?

God provided choice .. believe God and do what He says ... or not. God don't force Himself on anyone ... never has. Love can not be forced ... it must be a choice.

Before the fall all Adam & Eve knew was good ... afterwards they knew both.

 

[BobRyan]

If the results are inevitable, how is that a "test" and for whom?

1. Gen 2 text does not say the results are inevitable.
2. Gen 2 says the test was for Adam and Eve.

That is the basics of the text itself.

Something he would want, but I do not know about good angels.

Some of the good angels fell (1/3 of them) the others did not.

There is nothing about the serpent eating the fruit.

Rev 12 says Satan is the serpent of old.

 

[BobRyan]

God provided choice .. believe God and do what He says ... or not. God don't force Himself on anyone ... never has. Love can not be forced ... it must be a choice.

amen

Before the fall all Adam & Eve knew was good ... afterwards they knew both.

They may have known "about" evil - for example the fall in heaven of 1/3 of the angels - but they did not know what it was to be sinful. to "know" sin/evil

 

[bling]

1. Gen 2 text does not say the results are inevitable.
2. Gen 2 says the test was for Adam and Eve.

The Bible also does not say: “God tested Adam by putting the tree of Knowledge in the center of the Garden.

I say the result was “inevitable”, since Adam and Eve begin lacking the Godly type Love they need to be able to obey and there was no reason for them to humble themselves to the point of accepting God’s gifts as undeserved charity, since they had done nothing wrong and God as their creator would have some responsibility for them

Rev 12 says Satan is the serpent of old.

Rev. 12 does not say anything about satan eating the fruit.

 

[BobRyan]

The Bible also does not say: “God tested Adam by putting the tree of Knowledge in the center of the Garden.

hmmm --- it says this

Gen 2: 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Gen 2: 16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”

which looks to a lot of us like God was giving man a warning -- a test and showing him pass vs fail.

then we are told about "temptation and fail"

" 1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; 3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’” 4 The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die! 5 For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate."​

Then we see dire consequence mentioned in Chapter 2 - described in Chapter 3 "but in more detail

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19 By the sweat of your face​

You shall eat bread,​

Until you return to the ground,​

Because from it you were taken;​

For you are dust,​

And to dust you shall return.”​

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20 Now the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. 21 And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.​

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22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.​

I say the result was “inevitable”

The Bible does not say that. Rather they had to be argued into rebellion.

, since Adam and Eve begin lacking the Godly type Love they need to be able to obey

No text says that.

Free will , choice is not "the lack of Godly type love".

and there was no reason for them to humble themselves to the point of accepting God’s gifts as undeserved charity, since they had done nothing wrong

agreed. IT was all a free gift -- but they were not in a state of rebellion and condemnation.

 

[BobRyan]

duplicate

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Gen 2: 16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”

which looks to a lot of us like God was giving man a warning -- a test and showing him pass vs fail.

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was not a test created by God; rather, it became a source of temptation for Eve due to the devil's cunning deception.