The conversation between human and AI assistant.
Doesn't it seem suspicious that God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge? Why would he want people to be ignorant?
I see. But if God gave us free will, why would he punish us for exercising it?
Many religious scholars argue that God doesn't necessarily punish us for exercising our free will, but rather that there are consequences to our actions that we must deal with. By choosing to eat from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve were effectively choosing to separate themselves from God and lose their innocence, which came with a number of other consequences.