What do you think was the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil or the tree of knowledge, the forbidden fruit which led to the fall of man?
"And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. " (Genesis 3:22-24)
Consider the words "Behold, the man is become as one of us". I strongly think that the tree of knowledge means the power which has been taken away from us. I believe we all have psychic powers, we are almost godlike but we also have a psychic censor which doesn't allow us to tap into these powers. So maybe God didn't want everybody to be as mighty as him and hence our powers were taken away from us?
Also, if you think of it this way, most religions tell us to obliterate our ego, give up our worldly pleasures & embrace god. In a way they want us to stop thinking. And the tree of knowledge, as the name suggests corresponds to thinking & the intellect. And one cannot have an ego (by ego I mean identity) without an intellect.
So maybe God wanted us to be mindless creatures in the garden of the eden while the serpent wanted to liberate us.
One may argue about the intentions about the serpent, whether he really wanted to liberate us or to make us lose the paradise but that is another topic. MY intention is not to portray the serpent as a hero & god as a control freak but I can't help concluding this out of it.
This reminds me of the movie "The Matrix" when Morpheus offers Neo the red & the blue pill & asks him to choose one of them. If you consider this in the aspect of the fall of man, The blue pill denotes paradise in the form of bliss & ignorance, the red symbolizes liberation but accompanied with hardships.
Isn't the whole RHP based on this? on the abstainance which god wanted us to have?
One may also arge that what god was doing was not entirely evil, he knew that because of the ego there will always be conflicts. Because of our different beliefs & perceptions, there will always be disputes. Someone did say "there is enough in this world for man's need but not for his greed"
But the choice should be given to us rather than being forced upon us.
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