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Why was it wrong for Adam and Eve to know good and evil?



      

Genesis 3:22

ESV - 22 Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever -

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
In Genesis 3:22 God says, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil." Knowledge in itself is not wrong (see Luke 2:52), so what was so bad about man "knowing good and evil"? It ...

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