Why Did God
Create the Tree of
the Knowledge of
Good and Evil?

Go d ’s
Cre atio n
Gen 1:31 And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it
was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Let’s Play . . .
The Blame
Game

Tree of Life Knowledge of
Good & Evil
And out of the ground Jehovah
God caused to grow every tree
that is pleasant to the sight, and
good for food. The tree of life
also was in the middle of the
garden, and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
Gen 2:9
Two Trees In The midst
of the Garden of Eden

And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, You
may freely eat of every tree in the garden, Gen 2:16

Tree of Life Knowledge of
Good & Evil
Two Trees In The
Garden of Eden

All Cre ate d Go o d . . .
Gen. 1:31 records:
“Then God saw everything that He had made,
and indeed it was very good.”
Everything God had created was not only good,
but “very good.” Exodus 20:11
Everything was created in the six days of divine
creative activity.
Nothing was created after those days

If God is love . . .
• Why did God create the tree
of the knowledge of good
and evil?
• Why he did not put a fence
around the evil tree?
• God knows everything
before it happened: Why he
did not stop Eve and Adam
from eating the evil fruit from
the evil tree?

If God is love . . .
• Why did God tempt them by
telling them about that bad
tree?
• Did God also created evil ?
If He did not know it then He
was not wise, and if He
knew it He was wicked
• Why God allows something
to happen to His creatures?

Go d always wante d man
to ke e p His c o mmands .
Go d us e d vario us me ans
to fac ilitate s uc h
o be die nc e .

Firs t
The tre e o f the
kno wle dg e o f g o o d and
e vil lo c atio n was
s trate g ic .
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the
middle of the garden, God has said, You
shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it,
lest you die. Gen. 3:3

2 nd
The tre e o f Life was
als o s trate g ic ally
lo c ate .
And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The
tree of life also was in the middle of the garden, and the
tree of knowledge of good and evil. Ge n .

3rd
The pro hibitio n and
po te ntial punis hme nt we re
s po ke n by Go d .
but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of
good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you
shall surely die. Ge n . 2:17

4th
Go d c re ate d many mo re
fruits tre e s . The y are all
ple as ant to human s ig ht.
And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The
tree of life also was in the middle of the garden, and the
tree of knowledge of good and evil. Ge n .

In c o nc lus io n
Human have a CHOICE
and FREEDOM g ive n
fro m Go d
Ge n . 2:9

Firs t Human To Make
Exc us e s
1. Make excuse for their wrong
actions.
2. Avoiding personal responsibility.
3. Man used his mental capabilities
to “ingeniously” create the first
excuse
4. Man is always defensive.

Lo o k At Human Exc us e s
Adam blamed eve:
“The woman whom You gave to be
with me, she gave me of the tree,
and I ate” (Genesis 3:12)
Eve blame Devil:
“Follow Adam example”
“The serpent deceived me, and I
ate” (Genesis 3:13).

Have Man Chang e d To day ?
Man has continued today to find more:
1. Cunning way
2. Sophisticated
3. and Convincing Excuses
To set himself free from his moral and/or
spiritual responsibility.

Man Charg e s Go d . . .
Adam charged Eve directly and
God indirectly when he said:
“The woman whom You gave to
be with me...” (Genesis 3:12)—
many today have puffed
themselves up with pride to set
God up as the initiator,
promoter, and instigator of the
tragedy in Eden.

Man Charg e s Go d . . .
Rom 1:28 And even as they
did not think fit to have God in
their knowledge, God gave
them over to a reprobate mind,
to do the things not right,
• Men simply have not wanted to
retain God in their lives
(Romans 1:28)
• To find some peace in their
shameless actions that charge
their conscience,
• Deliberate search for a kind of
built-in evil in the Divine
nature.

Man No w Blame Go d
The “Lord God” is the “Tempter” in
Eden
Genesis 2:17 when He says, “...but of
the tree of knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat,for in the day that you
eat of it you shall die”....
Because of Pride:
Man has set God up as the
initiator, promoter, and instigator
of the tragedy in Eden.
Tell a child or juvenile not to do
something and you’re immediately
establishing the temptation to do it.
If you don’t want to tempt them you
never mention it—and make sure the
temptation is not available to be yielded
to (2000, emp.added).

M NowBlam God
an e
The “Lord God” is the
“Tempter” in Eden
Genesis 2:17 when He says,
“...but of the tree of knowledge
of good and evil you shall not
eat,for in the day that you eat of
it you shall die”....
The charges of man:
God who created the good,
also created evil....
• If He did not know it then He
was not wise, and
• if He knew it He was wicked

The
End