It seems that God wants us to obey him even when it concerns something we are fully capable of doing. His command to our first parents was “Do not eat the fruit of this tree.” There was nothing harmful in that fruit. The command was simply to provide an occasion where our first parents could willingly avoid something they were fully capable of doing simply because they wanted to obey God.
I think it was a test of obedience, nothing more than that.
Maurice A. Williams
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