What Is The Tree Of Knowledge And What Did It Impart To The Humans

[@adamhustler3639]

I think your analysis is missing one key detail. You're right, it isn't that eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil gave us the ability to discern. What it did was give us the knowledge of the 'ideas' of good and evil themselves. But we still rely on either ourselves or a higher power to decide which acts fall under the category of good, and which ones fall under the category of evil. And this is where the idea of wanting to be God, wanting to be the one who chooses what is good and what is evil, comes into play.

[@squaredcircle9205]

A linguistic comment as my contribution to today's excellent video: the reason why the fruit was identified as an apple in the English-speaking world is probably that the words "aplaz" (Proto-Germanic), "applu" (Proto-West-Germanic), "æppel" (Old English) and "appel" (Middle English) meant "fruit" (and more specifically, "spherical fruit"). Again, many many thanks dear friend.

[@rcwilkinson9889]

Excellent to know. Thank you.

[@squaredcircle9205]

​@@rcwilkinson9889 You are welcome dear friend.