GCEChristian Religious StudiesCreation and the Fall2020

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden primarily represented

AGod's desire to test man's intellectual capacity
Bthe boundary of God's authority over man's freedom
Cthe moral boundary set by God requiring man's obedienceCORRECT
Da source of wisdom that God intended man to eventually eat from
AI
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Why the answer is C, and why the others tempt you.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:17) represented the moral limit God placed on man, requiring obedience and trust. It was not about intellectual testing but about whether man would submit to God's authority. God explicitly forbade eating from it, indicating it was never intended as a future reward.
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