Here lies the paradox: any attempt to remove all knowledge of evil still leaves untouched the potential for the desire to possess that knowledge. And that singular desire—”I want to know what evil is” ...

By eating from the Tree of Knowledge, Adam and Eve acquired the knowledge of good (tov) and bad (rah). What was so terrible about them acquiring this knowledge that they deserved capital punishment?

The Bible does not mention Adam and Eve’s other sons and daughters or disclose their details, including their descendants. However, Flavius Josephus, a first-century historian, indicated in his ...

The apple has been associated with the pivotal Biblical scene for generations, but is this a case of mistaken identity?

The Garden of Eden had many trees, and Adam was encouraged to eat from every branch, except from the so-called “tree of knowledge of good and evil.” “In the day that you eat of it,” God ...

Columnist Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson writes in her Walking Our Faith column that “We think it’s stupid that God punished his own creation for the harmless sin of eating a piece of fruit.” ...

Upon hearing the voice of God, Adam and Eve hid their nakedness among the trees. Adam blamed both Eve and God: “The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat ...

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Tree of Knowledge. The tree of knowledge is a biblical story. God having created the Garden of Eden forbids Adam and Eve to eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge. The fact that Eve and Adam ate ...

Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, giving humanity some sense of self-awareness, justice and, ideally, care for the poor and oppressed.

At stake in Adam and Eve’s transgression in the Garden is the knowledge of good and evil, which embodies power. When it comes to that, she’s trouble, and he’s almost without fault.