Why did God intelligent design the Garden of Eden to have the Forbidden Fruit of the Power to Know the Differ-

ence Between Right and Wrong tree in the middle?

Why did God intelligent design the Garden of Eden to have the Forbidden Fruit of the Power to Know the Differ-
When people sought to explain the nature of the world they obviously had to come up with a reason for all the bad stuff. They couldn't just have a benevolent god who made everything all lovely and perfect because that's not the way the world is, so they made up the 'forbidden fruit' idea to explain the bad stuff.
Reply:Seems like planned obsolescence or some other form of planing to fail.





I wonder why the 'intelligent' design includes vestigial organs that serve no purpose.
Reply:He didn't. the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which I assume is what you're referring to, is symbolic of the ability to do evil things, similar to the "hot stove" allegory. A parent does not want his child to get burnt, so she tells him: do not touch the hot stove. The child touches the stove and gets burnt. Why's the hot stove there in the first place? You need to cook, right?
Reply:In the middle because knowledge of right from wrong is the center of everything that matters. He knew adam and eve would eat the fruit. He knew it before He formed them. We are all children and must learn the difference before we enter into Eternity.


Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Reply:to teach obedence
Reply:Better question yet, WHY would he tempt them when, he being all knowing, KNEW they would eat the apple (or whatever it was). Seems like a silly test if you already knew the answer.
Reply:Hell, uh (lol.) I think that God can do whatever He wants. I think that attitude is best in preventing becoming an INMATE of HELLFIRE (lol.)





Pete ("What the hell?")
Reply:because the center of the spirit is our free will, that is the most important this God gave to us. If we where robots and had to walk around loving Jesus all day how would that be special to God? That would not be true love. So he gave us a choice to chose. That was what the fruit symbolized.
Reply:Why even design trees with edible fruit if you don't want people eating their fruit?
Reply:How else do you expect him to ENTRAP humanity so as to get this entire mess started?
Reply:It is metaphoric of course. There is the visual of centeredness
Reply:Garden of eden is said to be paradise. The only reason he made the forbidden truth is so he gave adam and eve wonder and all he wanted was one rule. A person can't just live without no meaning in their life. so adam and eve just had to simply not eat the forbidden fruit. God wanted them to trust him.
Reply:he had to forbid something from them, he had to give them the choice. why was it in the middle? idk maybe god thought it was important it was something the humans didn't have, maybe that was it. but we can't possibly try to understand the intentions of god. i mean we don't have to know everything and thats why we don't.
Reply:He just designed it that way, then He realized something bad had happened as a result, and then He implemented intelligent design instead of just design to avoid future problems.