Why did god make trees?

Answer 1

The Tree of Knowledge? As a sort of test for man I suppose. Since he knew that Eve would be tricked and that she would convince Adam to also eat the fruit... maybe he put it there so that we would have to live in an imperfect world. To see if we could resist Satan's evil.

Answer 2

I believe He had His own personal reasons for the trees, and after He found that we would soon be our own death, He rid of them.

I do not claim the 'christian' title but I believe in God, Christ, the Holy spirit, miracles, and I interpret The Bible my own way. I dont believe God knows the future of us, simply because that contradicts His love, which still exists today in few but real obvious people.

For whatever reason He had the trees, He didnt tell us to mess with them to tempt us, but to because He obviously thought we could be trusted. Before you knew it, animals and people were eating each other and God had to send Jesus to make a way for us to gain life.

Answer 3

A:The Tree of Knowledge was part of ancient Mesopotamian mythology before it entered the Bible. The ancients believed that the gods feared that humans would discover the secret to immortality, and the story of the Garden of Eden is really the story of man's search for immortality. After Adam and Eve had eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they became like gods (Genesis 3:22: "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us..."), but had also become aware of their mortality. Knowing that they would now be tempted to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life, God drove them from the Garden of Eden and placed cherubim (sing: cherub)and a flaming sword at the entrance to keep [block] the way of the Tree of Life.

Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says we can learn most from their story by regarding it as a mythical yet realistic portrait of permanent truths about our humanity, rather than as a historical yet idealised portrait of a blissful existence once enjoyed but now lost. Hence, it is better to understand the story on its own terms rather than try to discover divine secrets.

Another Answer:

In Genesis 2, we read of God planting a garden which had two trees: the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:8-9). It is the latter tree that you seem to be asking about.

God has created all humans after the God-kind. He has given us free will to choose the way we desire to go. As such, our first parents were told of the outcome of eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and warned not to do so because they would surely die:

Genesis 2:15-17New King James Version (NKJV)

15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Eve was deceived and ate the fruit and gave it to her husband, Adam, who sinned by eating it too. They were cast out of the Garden. They could of chosen the 'tree of life' and become begotten in the God Family for eternity but they did not. Yet God did not just give up on humankind. He cursed the serpent and promised a Savior to re-establish our link to Him.

Some have dated the time of this event to circa 4000 BC, when only these two humans were alive on earth. The 'Gap Theory' postulates that Adam recorded the events of his long life on a tablet which Moses consolidated and recorded in the Book of Genesis along with about 11 other genealogies.

Answer 4

This is one story in the Bible best read allegorically. Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says we can learn most from the story by regarding it as a mythical yet realistic portrait of permanent truths about our humanity, rather than as a historical yet idealised portrait of a blissful existence we once enjoyed but lost. There was no Garden of Eden and, of course, no Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Answer 5

You can ask Him. in Genesis 1:29. Just remember that was a perfect place with no sin or corruption.

Answer 6

The Tree of Knowledge was part of ancient Mesopotamian mythology before it entered the Bible. The ancients believed that the gods feared that humans would discover the secret to immortality.

Answer 7

Because they look nice and play a vital part in cleaning the air! (answered by my son aged 8!)

Answer 8

The tree of knowledge represented God's right as Ruler to decide what is good and bad for his human creation.

Answer 9

All humankind has been given free will. This means we may chose between more than one way. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was another choice to the Tree of Life.

Answer 10

In order to test the first man.