Adam And Eve Take Of The Forbidden Fruit Analysis

What is the best explanation we can give why Adam and Eve take of the forbidden fruit in the Genesis story of the Fall?

Tell a child to not do something and that is exactly what they will do! Let’s take the child as an example of purity, innocence and no knowledge towards good or evil.

With that in mind, there are several interpretations or understandings of why Adam and Eve would take of the forbidden fruit.

Through a subjective line of argumentation, the aim of this essay is to present a personal understanding of the topic, answering the question given in a purely subjective matter.

On the Genesis account, humans begin in innocence, without knowledge of good and evil, without guilt or shame. But how do they become guilty? If they are

It looks like “God’s plan” is not “persuasive” enough to be certain that people believe in His word and power, thus he needs to apply tests on them to check their faith!

On this account, David Hume explained that “In order to govern the material world, the almighty creator has established general and immutable laws, by which all bodies, from the greatest planet to the smallest particle of matter, are maintained in their proper sphere and function.” This explains that God needed rules and laws in order to express Himself as a ruler, as a higher entity than mankind.

Therefore, this line of argumentation could explain why Adam & Eve ate from the forbidden tree. Not necessarily because they wanted to, but because God wanted to check on them. If God was able to rely on His ability to create faithful and virtuous individuals, there would have been no need for the tree to exist in the middle of the garden, more than that, there should not have been a need for the snake to exist in the Garden of Eden.

Thirdly, a second layer of analysis within the second argument of “Did God make them do it?” is related to if whether it was God’s plan to have Adam & Eve eat from the forbidden fruit in the first

Firstly, the human nature argument that suggests the idea that an individual will try and reach for more, in order to become more. Secondly, the idea that it was God’s plan from the beginning to have Adam & Eve eat from the fruit, either to test their faith in Him or because He knew they would eat the fruit, due to the free will given, but He had a bigger plan for humanity.

Kant considers that “if whether the good or evil spirit wins us over to his party depends merely on which bids the most and pays us promptly, then certainly it holds true of men universally” - “They are all under sin, there is none righteous (in the spirit of the law), no, not one.” Kant suggests the idea that depending for whether which of the good and evil sounds better, the human will choose in accordance. Which could be a plausible argument, having in mind the fact that God told Adam & Eve they will die directly if they eat from the forbidden fruit and on the other hand, the serpent promised them that they will gain knowledge, and not die, but become similar to