Response to the Bible, Book of Genesis

The Bible, as we all know , is one of the most popular and classical books in the world. Also,the Bible is worth reading for people all over the world, No matter you believe in Christianity or not. As a person who do not have any religious belief, I read the Bible as a literature.

    The first two chapters talks about the process that the LORD God created the world and earth. In the following chapters, it also tells the story about the man LORD God created and his wife on how they ate the fruit and were gotten out of the Eden. Also, it introduces the names of descendants of Adam and Eve. At last, it describes how Noah created the ark and escaped the waters of the flood with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

   What interests me a lot is that in the Garden of Eden, the serpent always instigated Eve to eat the fruit that God did not want them to eat, and at last, Eve followed what the serpent said.

    In my opinion, the words the serpents said are exactly the lure we are facing every day. In our daily life, we always have to be pushed to make some decisions. At that that time, we just like Eve. Shall we insist ourselves? Or following others' words that seems to be more feasible. Especially when the people who giving you suggestions have more experience than you. Hence, when we meet this situation, we have to become more carefully to analyze and tell. But do not just act like Eve, having no idea in heart. 

    However, what confuses me here is that why the LORD God did not allow Eve and Adam to eat the fruit. According the God's words, the tree having the fruit represents the knowledge of good and evil, and after eating the fruit, people will know good and evil. Why the LORD God did not want people know these two things? And in the following sentences, after they eating the fruit, Eve and Adam had some emotions they did not have before, for example, shyness. But in my opinion, this is noting about good and evil. 

    Also, in part 3, the LORD God said that" the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and live forever". The understanding of mine here is that in the God's mind, only he can live forever and know the knowledge of good and evil.