WHY DIDN’T ADAM ASK GOD, “WHY CAN’T I EAT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE?”
December 19th, 2008
(Whether one believes the Bible is the inspired of God, almost all scholars agree it is among the greatest writings of all time and is at least evidence of what the writers believed about God and life. *See a quote about the ten commandments from one of our forefathers at the end of this writing).
In Genesis 2:15-18ff the writers of the oral tradition of first things recorded that God told Adam
(notice that Eve was not created yet):
“You are free to eat of any tree of the garden, except only the tree of knowledge of good and bad, of which you are not to eat. For the moment you eat of it, you shall be doomed to death.”
Why didn’t Adam ask God, “Why?” Could it be that the writers believed that one should not question God? Notice that many years later the writer (writers?) of Isaiah 1:18 believed that God said, “Come now, and let us reason together,”? If so, notice how the writers’ beliefs evolved and broadened from the time of Genesis to Isaiah to Jesus to the present indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our own lives who inspires us daily (if we be still and open our hearts for “I AM”).
Or was Adam (means mankind) too proud to ask because he thought of himself as a god? Or would appear to look stupid? Or too lazy (didn’t want to take the time)? Do we in the present day have these same tendencies?
Also notice that according to this writing Eve did not hear this command for she was created later from one of Adam’s ribs (not the soil). Did she lead Adam astray innocently? She has been blamed for it for hundreds of years.
“Eve was not created from Adam’s foot to be dominated by him,
Nor from his head to be dominated by her,
But from his side to be his equal and companion.” (unknown)
Gladys was arguing with Fred Sanford about bossing and condemning her so much.
“Listen here Fred! Woman was made from Adam’s rib and that makes us equal.”
“Yeah Gladys. But a rib is a cheaper cut.”
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*President Adams (our 6th president) said the following about the importance of the Ten Commandments to American law and government:
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.
John Quincy Adams, Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings (Auburn: James M. Alden, 1850), p. 61.
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