(V): "Aye.. I was [confused], so I learnt how to stop thinking when it comes to matters of spirituality and further into trying to have a comprehension of what God is and his (to quote Good Omens) "his ineffable plan"

"The story of Genesis confirms this from a philosophical point of view... "tree of knowledge" why?"


Okay, first of all the tree of the knowledge of good and evil wasn't about whether we may or may not have access to ANY knowledge. The prohibition was specific to a knowledge of good and evil. In other words, the prohibition against gaining this knowledge wasn't a prohibition against all other forms of knowledge.

There is nothing there to suggest we shouldn't think or wonder about things, or pursue something like technological knowledge. Obviously (there's that word again) I'm being very literal minded when I look at this, and I could be wrong... I'm assuming things like thinking and wondering and pursuing other knowledge would be okay, because no other prohibitions were stated.

So to your question, why the tree of knowledge? First of all, it wasn't "the tree of knowledge". It was the tree of knowledge OF good and evil. But even so, it begs the question why did God put us in the position of having to choose between what he said and what someone else was saying? Maybe it's because he created us for a specific purpose.