# What was the purpose of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 26, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-purpose-of-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil/980405 "2023-02-26T19:56:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-purpose-of-the-tree-of-the-knowledge-of-good-and-evil/980405/89 "2023-02-28T18:57:09Z")

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Somehow, an on topic post of mine got moved with the hijack posts to another thread, but I still thinks it better fits in this thread. So I hope that I’m allowed to crosspost it here:

> [@Hijack of Tree of Knowledge thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hijack-of-tree-of-knowledge-thread/980497/10):
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> By the way, I think it hasn’t come up yet in this thread: for me, the story of the Tree of knowledge never made a lick of sense. So God made Adam and Eve, but they both don’t know the difference between good and evil by design. Then God (as by definition he is the Almighty) sends the snake along to tempt A&E to eat the fruit. Them being drooling toddlers mentally without a moral compass and thus not knowing that eating the fruit is evil in God’s mind, of course follow the snake’s advice and bam,…

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