The book of Genesis, from the Hebrew Bible, starts off with God’s creation of the world, the man and the woman. According to the book, in the garden of Eden, where the couple used to live, God had planted the tree of knowledge, and He ordered them to not eat any fruit from this particular tree. Being omniscient strengthens the idea that He knew what was going to happen in advance, regarding planting the tree of knowledge, His order, the couple’s disobedience, and their punishment. Also, nothing happens without God’s permission, therefore He was the one who has allowed the serpent to approach Eve saying that after eating the fruit she would become as knowledgeable as gods.
According to the book, Eve does not resist the temptation, eats the fruit, and she also convinces Adam to eat it. If I were one of them, I would have eaten the fruit as well, because besides thinking that God sent the persuasive serpent, I would not have known the difference between good and evil back then. Also, if He had planted a tree with such a tempting name, and yet with a forbidden fruit of it, perhaps it was God’s intention to start some drama since the beginning in order to have an interesting story to tell the readers about. Otherwise, the Hebrew Bible would have consisted of only one book and three chapters, instead of becoming one of the greatest books of all times.
I really think this section of the Genesis about the garden of Eden, which can be discussed and debated for days on days. It can begin with the debate of God being omniscient, I for one agree with the fact that the creator of the universe is omniscient and think that it is supported when he says, “God saw all the work that He had done, and, look, it was very good”. My main question that comes of this is why create something that is “very good” and have it tainted with evil and death? If we fast forward to the present either due to our responsibilities, or dreams and aspirations, we are placed in situations to create on a daily basis, but we seek perfection nobody wants to come up short or even worse completely fail. So why does God then come short of the expectational goals that we set for ourselves? Like the above author stated, “He knew what was going to happen in advance, regarding planting the tree of knowledge”, is this to say our short comings of perfection are inherently flawed from a characteristic trait of our creator? Maybe we are more god like then we even know it, or maybe humanity was created to be doomed from the beginning.