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Originally Posted by Trapped
The problem was not obtaining knowledge, or good and evil being "of death" (they aren't)....the problem was "the trespass" or "the disobedience". Adam and Eve had....probably.....100s or 1000s of other trees to choose from, and God only forbade one of them. God punished them for disobedience, but not because knowledge was bad.
Trapped
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It's really hard to understand the garden story without using symbolism. To me all that happened with the wrong tree is that Adam and Eve grew up from innocent childhood and became adults.
And as far as God being only upset with disobedience, the tone has "them" being upset that Adam and Eve "became as one of us." (and not any sign that "they" were the trinity -- we don't really know who "us" was or is).