Gazza

Hi Cheryl

If the knowledge of good and evil in chapter 3 is knowledge about good and evil then doesn’t verse 22 “become like us knowing good from evil” suggest that Adam has become more like God in his knowledge about sin in eating of the fruit? Could his understanding of good and evil not been somewhat limited while still being created in the image of God (an image is only ever a lesser resemblance) and this understanding increased with the eating of the fruit?

to put it another way:

How can God refer to an intimate knowledge of sin (experience) in the name of the tree in chapter 2, then in chapter 3 when considering Adam after eating that same fruit say Adam has “become like us knowing good from evil” (knowledge about sin) ? Though the phrases don’t use exactly the same word they refer to the effect of the same tree.