The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil EXPLAINED 

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If everyone would look into the Jewish faith of God's chosen people you will find that never in history have they believed that the original sin was a thing. God is not holding this on us and no one needs to be "Saved" from the original sin. If you read the book of Job in the Old Testament you can learn a lot more when you know that Job was not Jewish. Satan is misunderstood as well to Christians he is not a fallen Angel as you have been taught. No Angels have fallen and Hell is not a place. Hell is for everyone, it is when we will have a true heart to heart with God and we will need to be honest with God it will be harder for some of us such as Hitler, I am sure his heart to heart with God was not easy. But everyone will get through it and it will not last forever. God will repair the damage we have received on this planet and love us and send us on to what ever he has ready for us after this life. Don't believe me research the Jewish faith that has been hidden from you. If you believe in an eternal Hell then you believe that Jesus created it and I do not want you to believe this. The Christian Hell is not the same as in Judaism, how is this possible you might think, its because Christians created it not God. It was not a thing and Jews have never thought they are the only ones going to Heaven they have always believed everyone is going to Heaven. Everyone is returning to God no matter what you do in your life, but will you live your life for him because you want to and love God or because you fear him and do not want to go to the Hell you have developed in your mind. Its a personal journey and to love you must know what love is and to know what love is you also need to what love is not. When you are loving because you are love with God you will understand. God Bless Everyone.

This reasoning makes God sound like he is a psychopathic God. The parent that drinks whiskey every night and leaves the open bottle out should not be surprised when the teenage kid sneaks some whiskey at some point. The same with holding the teenage kid accountable for this action their whole life would also be psychopathic.

Stop calling the Genesis 2 character God, idiot. That's the Devil.

​@@dronecruisers What you just said makes zero sense... Heck, your very example is extremely flawed. Rather think of a father working with fire, and warning his son to not play with fire. What is psychotic about that, exactly?

Amazingly well said!

Golden! Thank you and well said!

Very well said and I can clearly see your intelligence. I think what most people miss is that we are always children on this planet even at our oldest age we are still children. I think deconstruction is kind of the wrong idea but there are a lot of things that need repaired. For this topic of this video the biggest thing with it is that Gods chosen people never believed or were told from God that this original sin was something we needed to be "saved" from this is completely a made up idea out of the Christian church and anyone that researches Judaism will find its not a thing and never was. The second thing is sin period. Sin will not lead to a eternal punishment in fire. Again in Judaism its not a thing, Hell is not a place. This is made up by Christians that want to think life is some kind of court case and can tell people what is good and bad and you need to win the case to go to Heaven. Gods chosen people have always believed everyone is going to Heaven and returning to God after this life no one is excluded to them. Hell is for everyone, it is when we will have a true heart to heart with God and we will need to be honest with God it will be harder for some of us such as Hitler, I am sure his heart to heart with God was not easy. But everyone will get through it and it will not last forever. God will repair the damage we have received on this planet and love us and send us on to what ever he has ready for us after this life. Don't believe me research the Jewish faith.

Very helpful analogy. And couldn’t agree more about the current deconstruction movement.

[YHWH or LORD "Yahweh", that ancient serpent called the Devil and Satan (from Genesis 2), accepts a child/virgin sacrifice where a father literally slaughters his own daughter]: (not to be confused with God "Elohim" or Spirit of God "Ruach Elohim" from Genesis 1) Judges 11 Names of God Bible Jephthah’s Vow 29 Then the RUACH YAHWEH came over Jephthah. Jephthah went through Gilead, Manasseh, and Mizpah in Gilead to gather an army. From Mizpah in Gilead Jephthah went to attack Ammon. 30 Jephthah made a vow to YAHWEH. He said, “If you will really hand Ammon over to me, 31 then whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from Ammon will belong to YAHWEH. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.” 32 So Jephthah went to fight against Ammon. YAHWEH handed the people of Ammon over to him. 33 He defeated them from Aroer to Minnith and on to Abel Keramim, 20 cities in all. It was a decisive defeat. So the Ammonites were crushed by the people of Israel. 34 When Jephthah went to his home in Mizpah, he saw his daughter coming out to meet him. She was dancing with tambourines in her hands. She was his only child. Jephthah had no other sons or daughters. 35 When he saw her, he tore his clothes in grief and said, “Oh no, Daughter! You’ve brought me to my knees! What disaster you’ve brought me! I made a foolish promise to YAHWEH. Now I can’t break it.” 36 She said to him, “Father, you made a promise to YAHWEH. Do to me whatever you promised since YAHWEH has punished your enemy Ammon.” 37 Then she said to her father, “Do me a favor. Give me two months for my friends and me to walk in the mountains and mourn that I will never have an opportunity to get married.” 38 “Go!” he said, and he sent her off for two months. She and her friends went to the mountains, and she cried about never being able to get married. 39 At the end of those two months she came back to her father. He did to her what he had vowed, and she never had a husband. So the custom began in Israel 40 that for four days every year the girls in Israel would go out to sing the praises of the daughter of Jephthah, the man from Gilead.

Yo, this is an underrated statement.

And their arguments can NEVER stand against the Truth.

These people who deconstruct Christianity are not aware that they are actually using this tool against their own understanding. I tried before I converted, but all my arguments fell apart over time. Then I gave up and converted.

Who created Satan ????

​@@christianhayter God created the angels, but Lucifer made himself the devil with his choice

I don’t think this line of reasoning is good enough. The video mentions the same point if I’m understanding correctly. If Adam and Eve had no knowledge of good/evil, then they would be completely ignorant as to whether they should follow this command. They wouldn’t know that following the command is good and disobeying it is evil. Then your back to the same “dilemma” that the women is trying to describe. He explains the problem with this thinking though thankfully

Well said! They disobeyed God.

how'd they know it was wrong to disobey god? FAIL

​@@christianhayter God gave them a perfect world, there was no sin tainting it and causing the problems we have now. God gave them one rule, and they broke it knowingly.

@@KodyCrimson this assumes they knew good vs evil which is fine and defensible as shown in the video. You must include that part though. Your response by itself is not enough

The bible simply says Eve was deceived. We are dead in our sins because of Adams sin thus it was required that a 2nd Adam should come to redeem His people.

@@banemaler Yes, Eve was deceived. But she also most probably enticed her husband and he gave in to her offer.

@@Seeker7257 It also says he was "there with her", so he watched the whole thing happen and didn't protect his wife like a husband should, but instead went along with it.

@@markfry4304 Yes, signs of clear deceit.

​@@Seeker7257 They were told by their Creator to not eat it, and they could have told Satan "No", but instead listened to him instead of talking to their Creator about it

Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Did they? I mean, if they didn't mention the serpent 🐍, what they said would be *very* out of context. A child will still give context, even if they think what they did is a minor issue.

@@asekuvena they didn’t simply give context, the tried to shift blame. Adam blamed God by saying the fault of “the woman you gave me”. Eve blamed the serpent, even though she was well aware of what God had said. They knew what they were doing.

The problem is, they understood after the fact, and the women did not blame anyone, she just told the truth of what happened, the man also told the truth, but it was the wrong answer because he took absolutely no responsibility for what happened, instead he blamed his women and the Creator.

@@ObsessedStephenKingFanatic1974 First you need to understand that the rule was given to him after he named all the trees and animals, and before he was given his women. He had to tell her the rule, his answer to the Creator was the truth, but it was the wrong answer because he took no responsibility for what was his responsibility, not hers!! He named all the trees and fruit, do you think he did not know the fruit she bought him?? Of course he knew, but what she brought him wasn't just about a fruit, or why else would they hide and cover their private parts after disobeying the Creator?

@@ObsessedStephenKingFanatic1974 Believe it or not, the first Hueman did not speak the language of people who would not exsist for at least another three thousand years later. People speak many different languages now, and they all call the same fruit something different. Genesis 2 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Furthermore, what is it in action? Loving your neighbor? Being honest? Turning the other cheek? No one can claim a mark on Jesus's Character. If everyone aspired to be like him, the world would be a better place. But somehow this is a "scam". 🤷‍♂

It is a scam because Adam and Eve sinning was always part of the plan (1 Peter 1:20). Also, consider this. Eve was not told not to eat of the tree by god (as god gave the commandment to Adam BEFORE he created Eve from his rib) so Eve didn't disobey.

@@Ejaezy Genesis 3:2-3…Eve knew.

@@kingdomidentity Eve knew what? That Adam was told not to eat from the tree? Show me where in the bible god told EVE not to eat of it. Perhaps we are not reading the same bible because I read that god told ADAM not to eat from the tree just before he created Eve. You can't give commandments to someone who doesn't exist...

@@Ejaezy Eve knew not to eat from it. The source of the command doesn’t negate someone ability to follow it. Eve knew what God said from her husband. If I tell one child something and relays it to the other child, that child is still responsible. The point is Eve knew it went against what God said. And Adam was right there next to her and Adam was told directly by God and he still ate it.

Absolutely! Just remember that the bibles were all written by men. That's it. Nothing more! So sad to see so many fools here.

Good point. You see this over and over again. People who have never read the Bible take one verse and are suddenly experts on what the entire book says and means!

Exactly! Including the fact they were also warned of the consequences of eating from the tree ie death.

As a former christian, I think that's the right way of looking at it. Their master told them not to do something and in the narrative they seemed to understand What they wasn't supposed to do.

They didnt know of deception tho. They were provided everything they needed but the devil took it from them with lies. Eve gambled thinking she was gonna become like God. One in the hand is better than two in the bush.

But at the same time if eve had just thought about it, she may have obeyed God. Why would God create humans that could be like him?

Yes! GOD desires obedience over sacrifice!

I saw no indication of anger in the video...

@@Ejaezy Mad in this case as in upset.

facts

To play devil's advocate, I don't think she had a problem wit God punishing His children, but that it was unjust because they had no capacity to know what to do.

Hopefully she wouldn't curse their whole bloodline and species

But she spoke so slowly, how could she be wrong?

Also, God did tell them what would happen if they ate from the fruit. They would surely die.

They didn't know that disobedience was wrong. We don't even know if they knew what disobedience was (as it had never been presented to them previously). Would you claim that a toddler KNOWINGLY disobeys a command from you?

@@Ejaezy It's true that before eating the fruit, they could not distinguish good and evil, but the consequences should've been enough to steer them away regardless. Wage of sin is death and God made that apparent when he said that they would surely die. Even if they didn't know disobeying was wrong, they should've understood that it was not God's will to eat from it.

@@udonnauchegbu2018 How could the consequences steer them away of they didn't know what death was?

Who else has the desire to be like the Most High? Remember that guy?

@@mnight207 Of course. I had a nice "revelation" the other day, that is why I find this whole situation. Scripture says that everyone is drawn to temptation by their own desires. However, in the case of Eve we see that the desire can be benevolent but still be used for evil by Satan.

@@antigravityparkourfreerunn261 Yes, we cannot blame the enemy for our wrongdoings. However, he is the father of sin, lies, hatred and all things bad

@@mnight207 Absolutely agreed.

where in genesis does it say the serpent is the Devil?

These people don't care. They want to dish back the hurt they received. It's emotional blackmailing.

Funny how they leave the part about the devil out.

Actually, not knowing the DIFFERENCE between good and evil necessarily means that they didn't know better. Similar to how toddlers don't know better when they disobey their parents. You wouldn't argue to a judge that the toddler is responsible for disobeying a direct order would you?

@@Ejaezy your age doesn’t negate the existence of consequence. If you tell your toddler not to do something, and they don’t listen and get hurt, then that is the natural flow of action & consequence. If you want to compare Adam & Eve’s knowledge/reasoning to toddlers you can, but you should also factor in the importance of trust which God continuously talks about. If you genuinely don’t know something then it is even more important to trust in words of the person with more knowledge than you. For a toddler that is their parent, and for human-kind that is God. God told them the rules. They should have trusted him, instead they chose to believe in their limited understanding instead, and they got hurt.

@@Anne_one Exactly this. They might not have known what was evil, but they know what the man who gave them everything they could want told them to not do. He gave them paradise, and one rule. And they broke that rule.

@@WriterofWorlds You got to leave the parts out that don't support your view, after all. That's what she lives by clearly.

@@ObsessedStephenKingFanatic1974 They were, but humans have continued to sin ever since, despite a better knowledge of good and evil, so we deserve punishment as well.

​@@ObsessedStephenKingFanatic1974 You're forgetting that people are allowed to make choices.

@@Theawesomeninja_XD Not when they're manipulated and don't understand what they're doing.

@@ObsessedStephenKingFanatic1974 So we are not to blame for what we do wrong? It's God's fault for not getting in the way?

@@ObsessedStephenKingFanatic1974 So we have no control over our own actions.

not even 😂

😅😅 they really believe that. Tiktac is a plague

I’ve seen better theological arguments on the men’s room stall at my local gas station.

Hahahahaha

Nope!!!

God Said Gen. 1:26 "Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, ... The Serpent Said : Gen3:5 “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” After eating the fruit, this is what God admitted in Gen. 3:22 " Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

So is that like saying they knew of good and evil even before they ate the fruit..?

Young children don't know how to process the info that something is dangerous. That's why you don't leave dangerous things with young children, like matches, or chemicals, until they're old enough to understand it. Even if you say don't play with these. Its considered irresponsible Only in America you have children playing with loaded guns, and the many fatalities it causes, coz they're too ignorant, too low IQ to figure this out A veritable case of dung for brains

I share your first concern. Notice I said, “…. the act of eating from the tree disobeys God’s command and brings experiential knowledge of good and evil that they didn’t have before.” I think you’re right, the knowledge of good and evil can’t be experiencing evil since God is said to have the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 3:22). And God doesn’t experience evil. That’s why I said the “act of eating” from the tree, which was an act of disobedience, brought an experiential knowledge of good and evil. So, knowing good and evil doesn’t mean experiencing evil, BUT, in this case, eating from the prohibited tree meant experiencing evil. Hopefully that helps clarify my view.

@@RedPenLogic Thank you for taking the time to clarify! I guess my concern is, though I agree Adam and Eve gained experiential knowledge of evil by eating the fruit, that doesn’t seem to be what made it more than just propositional knowledge. They specifically gained the knowledge of good and evil in a way that made them like God, which isn’t experiential knowledge of evil. Some suggest the serpent was merely lying. After all, he is deceiving them. But God affirms that their gained knowledge of good and evil was like his (in some way) in verse 22. I think what made the knowledge of good and evil more than propositional knowledge was like you said in your third point; it was the source of the knowledge: God or them. God doesn’t need an outside voice to discern good and evil. After eating, Adam and Eve could discern good and evil without an outside voice. This of course directly affected the quality of the knowledge though. Anyway, great video, and I appreciate your clarification!

@@trevrockrock16 Genesis 3:22 “Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever-””

@@trevrockrock16 Yeah, I didn’t realize it at first. It seems like the serpent is just lying, until I read that verse. The Devil is the master of half-truths. When the Devil tempted Jesus, basically everything he said was true in one sense but was used to deceive. But Jesus held fast to the full truth.

@@levifox2818 The greatest lie ever told was 99% truth.

They wouldn't have known it's "wrong" to disobey

​@@zhengfuukusheng9238 False. She was given an order and she chose not to heed it. She simply didn't know why it was wrong. She knew it was wrong because she was told it was. My guess by some of your previous comments as well as your username is that you come to Christian channels for the intent of stirring dissent. Try it on someone one else. I'm not persuaded and never will be. Dont waste your time or energy. After this I'll simply ignore you.

@@briannehill7583 This what you said in one sentence "She simply didn't know why it was wrong." In the very next sentence you go on to say "She knew it was wrong....." Just like your bible, you're full of BS....and you know it

Breaking News: Amateur Christian apologist tries to defend her imperfect deity, trips up on her own logic, doing brainfarts whilst falling flat on her face

​@@sysprogmanadhoc2785 if you say so buddy.

Presumably she discovered her previous convictions were complete nonsense? Wouldn't it be the rational approach to ditch a set of beliefs you now consider to be unsound?

No The NEW belief system she adheres to is “be racist and be loyal to the LGBTQ+ to the detriment of children” and “have free sex with 10 people and kill the babies” Because she doesn’t understand an analogous book of the bible, she traded in “All men are created equal” and “treat others how you would like to be treated” as well as the 10 commandments which are mostly how to interact with others. I don’t know why you hate Christians and Christianity so much for telling people how to be GOOD and do GOOD things just because you don’t understand the Bible. You really are like the little kids, or the devil, who say “it’s okay to play with the electrical outlet” not knowing you’ll be killed

The fact its a 2000 yr old worldview written by primitive people extremely superstitious and with little science to support them, should tell us something

Nd boy did she do a great job at doing that

Glad it was helpful!

​@@RedPenLogic it sounds like you're drinking milk from the school master. I do believe in Good and Evil. I have pre-fall morality. Which means trusting God is good and eating from the Tree of knowledge this evil. This is knowledge people perish for lack of. This is strong meat. Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. There's a way that seems right but is really the way to death.

@@dansaber5853 Do you ever look at your motives and say anything bad about yourself?

@@zacharynash-pate291 We can all imagine what the perfect version of ourselves would be; lover of oneself. Willing to break down the door which is Jesus Christ to get at him; rejecting the diversity God Made You with. Which is like rocks upon the head and around the neck. This is what's common to man. The desire to become like him is to become a strange flesh. To become The Shining one. The false prophet. Because his identity will not save you. Give up the old man.

@@dansaber5853 I'm sorry but are you delighting in yourself right now? I didn't ask you for any of those things. Your wasting your time and energy. Show me that you can be humble and answer what was asked.

Also the people who believe they can think their way to salvation or progress as humans, aka atheist.

I don’t agree We should be free to interpret the Bible in the case of fascists who adhere to globalism over freedom and God’s word get in there and add “the 11th commandment - obey the government” This is also why I don’t respect papal authority. Jesus put one guy in charge to oversee what was already established. A council elects new guys who will do their bidding well enough and change the teachings to fit their needs.

@@SupHapCak I'm not a Catholic and I was careful to say that a single person cannot interpret the bible- whatever authority we wish to give to them. I believe it produces various errors and deviations. Given that, I do not think that the current pope is particularly bad. He is merely politically left and that politics has become increasingly authoritarian and overbearing. His political views are reflection of the times. Still, as far as I can tell, doctrinally he is upholding the faith well. He didn't change it more than it already was, since the schism.

God Said Gen. 1:26 "Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, ... The Serpent Said : Gen3:5 “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” After eating the fruit, this is what God admitted in Gen. 3:22 " Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

Eating the fruit did give us our humanity then, our ability to possibly become close to God

You remind me of her

You're trolling on here as well then 🥱

@@dansaber5853 you reject Jesus and the Bible, so are rejecting the Way, the Truth and the Life.

@@HearGodsWord I'm just here to discuss the literature. I'm not an idolater. If you take it seriously what are the consequences of knowing good and evil as God? Is it life... Or death? What do you think?

@@dansaber5853 see my previous comment.

Yes that's how sin is at first it almost looks innocent like marijuana looks innocent you can't overdose on it you won't get a hangover so you get relaxed and try harder drugs and then it gets out of control.

If you get into harder drugs you aren’t doing marijuana anymore lol The harder drugs are the problem, not necessarily the marijuana as long as it doesn’t become a problem; like if you get addicted and start thinking of pot before God or your responsibilities every day It’s like those people who say abstinence doesn’t work - if you have sex you aren’t abstinent anymore. Not doing something usually works if you are trying not to do a bad thing. Abstinence worked a hell of a lot better than what they teach now I tell you what

Ahhh Psalms !!! Here's a Psalms verse: Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones 137:9

​ Nothing wrong with being pro choice, Mr. Out of context religion guy.

Lol "Belief" is NOT a "choice" dear 😂😂😂

That's a reflection of "his" character too. Works both ways Checkmate

I'm not sure I agree with that. The first thing that happened when they ate the fruit was that they "realised they were naked" which is symbolic of their spiritual rebellion against God which is sin. This has nothing to do with humans defining their own morality.