[Laissez-faire capitalist]

As well, in the Book of Job, chapter 1 and 2: if Satan wanted to find out if Job would indeed curse God to His face (if God would stretch forth His hand against Job), all Satan would have to have done is say the following:

“God, you know everything; We all know this. Please tell me and the rest of all beings in the universe if Job will indeed curse you to your face if you do x, y and z to him.”

[onedoug]

I don’t believe in Satan, as it undermines monotheism, but that God Himself was the deceptive agent in The Garden at that time when human beings learned to abstract good and evil from within their own minds.

[yldstrk]

God should have warned Eve about satan

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Thus Eve could then say to the serpent (Satan) that he was a liar and that there was another reason for this particular tree

And that was so Eve could see the serpent for what he was. Evil.
Without that ability, the lord of lies could easily have said that he was of God and she must do as he says. She never would have known the difference.
The Lord our God knew this and thus did he create the Tree of Knowledge.

[Jack of all Trades]

Per the Bible, God is omniscient and omnipresent. He knew that Adam and Eve would eat from the tree when he created them. Per Genesis, the fall of Man was a push.

I find it interesting that Timothy 6:10 says “For the love of money is the root of all evil”, but in Genesis the original sin was hypothesis testing.

[sueQ]

Satan asked Eve, “Hath God said...?” Thus causing her to question God. She fell for it. Everyday the MSM asks the same question. “Hath God said?” Brothers and sisters in Christ, don’t fall for it.

[Red Badger]

God did not and could not lie. Satan did, by virtue of telling a half-truth. Satan lies and is the father of lies...................

[winodog]

There is something far deeper going on imo. The worlds greatest story has secrets yet to be revealed. Us fleas were created to worship God but we have to be shown what happens when we rule the earth our way.

So prepare for the Kingdom of God to be brought to earth

[quadrant]

I think - and I have no way of knowing this - that God created the Tree of Choice because He loved man as His own creation; but He wanted man to freely choose Him - despite the promise of a pleasing alternative - and to reject an existence separate from Him. Sadly, Eve and Adam chose otherwise.

[aimhigh]

If Eve had retorted to the serpent that . . . .

God wanted obedience, not a successful debate. Eve didn't have to respond at all. She (and Adam with her) could have just walked away. We don't have to have winning arguments to keep from sin.

After gaining the knowledge of good and evil, mankind has been operating on such knowledge ever since. God wants us to return to obedience based on faith. Obedience doesn't require that we are able to answer ever lie presented to us.

"By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments." 1 John 5:2-3

[DannyTN]

The sad part is that Eve had already caught Satan twisting God's words and corrected him once. Why on earth in paradise, did she keep listening to him after that?

[DannyTN]

The sad part is that Eve had already caught Satan twisting God's words and corrected him once. Why on earth in paradise, did she keep listening to him after that?

[Natufian]

God put the tree in the garden to test humanity but he must have known what was going to happen so the more interesting question is ‘why did he put the tree there in the first place?’.