[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Trapped

Not true. The Bible is explicit that the tree was "good for food". There is no way to slice it whereby deadly fruit can be called "good for food".

Where does it say the tree of the knowledge of good & evil was "good for food"?

Here's an article that agrees with your basic premise, but disagrees that the TOTKOGAE was "good." Tree Meaning Article

However, the question remains, why did God use something that would be ingested? (As we know, what we eat becomes part of us.) Why wouldn't he perhaps have said instead, "Don't cross over that river!" as the test? This way nothing would be ingested and therefore assimilated into them.