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What is meant by the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

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What is meant by the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

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A. Man through this tree came to know by the act itself what good there is in obeying the will of God, and what evil there is in disobeying it. Q. How could Adam and Eve listen to the devil against the will of God? A. God of His goodness, at the creation of man, gave him a will naturally disposed to love God, but still free; and man used this freedom for evil. Q. How did the devil deceive Adam and Eve? A. Eve saw in Paradise a serpent, which assured her that if men ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would know good and evil, and would become gods. Eve was deceived by this promise and ate of it. Adam ate after her example. Q. What came of Adam’s sin? A. The curse and death. Q. What is the curse? A. The condemnation of sin by God’s just judgement, and the evil which from sin came upon the earth for the punishment of men. God said to Adam, Cursed is the ground for thy sake. Gen. 3:17 Q. What is the death which came from the sin of Adam? A. It is two fold: