Aron Ra: Knowledge of Good and Evil

Added: 2026-05-29

[00:00:00]Adam was told not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil because then he would realize that he was naked.

[00:00:06]Because the storytellers who made up this tale thought that being naked was evil.

[00:00:11]And that shows how little the mythmakers understood of morality.

[00:00:15]Because that means that being as God made you is evil. And therefore God made you naked, then he made you evil.

[00:00:24]And stupid.

[00:00:25]Or at least immoral since Adam and Eve didn't know that they were naked {slash} evil. But that wasn't the only magically enchanted tree in the mythical garden.

[00:00:34]Adam was given a choice that he could eat instead of the fruit of the tree of eternal life. And if he ate from that tree, then he would live forever. I'd like to ask believers what they think would have happened if Adam never ate from either tree.

[00:00:49]Because if he doesn't eat from that tree, then he's not going to live forever.

[00:00:54]He will eventually die. But believers never figure that out. So I have to be more explicit.

[00:01:00]I asked them to explain what would happen if Adam never ate anything at all.

[00:01:05]Do they understand that he would then suffer from starvation?

[00:01:09]God could have given us the ability to make our own food like plants do. He could have given our cells chloroplasts along with mitochondria.

[00:01:16]But he didn't. Consequently, we have to find something living to eat or else we suffer by God's original design.

[00:01:25]So Christianity doesn't explain evil or suffering. And neither does Judaism.

[00:01:30]Nor has any religion ever adequately addressed the Epicurean quandary.

[00:01:36]Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

[00:01:39]Then he is not omnipotent.

[00:01:41]Is he able, but not willing?

[00:01:43]Then he is malevolent.

[00:01:45]Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?

[00:01:50]Is he neither able nor willing?

[00:01:53]Then why call him God?

[00:01:56]This quandary was posed 2,400 years ago, about the time that the myth of the Garden of Eden was being adapted for the Bible in a time before Christianity even existed.

[00:02:05]Yet that quandary remains unresolved to this day.

[00:02:09]So, Christianity doesn't explain evil or suffering.