Genesis 3, Gnosticism?

[Qwikness]

Is it Gnosticism when someone believes Genesis 3, that when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit that a “veil had been lifted” and they were “aware of their human nature”? Is that what was meant as their Knowledge, from the Tree of Knowledge? That they didn’t lose immortality but became “aware” of their mortality. Is that was what the serpent meant when he said,“You will not die” and “You will be like gods.” They didn’t immediately drop dead and became like gods in that gods know of mortality. and know good and evil because before that, they only knew good. If that isn’t Gnosticism is that called something else?

 

[4love2God]

Gnosticism.

It is difficult to actually explain what Gnostics believe.
This is because there are several forms of Gnosticism, that are practiced Today.

That is compounded by the fact that there was an early sect of Christians (practicing Christians), who believed in certain ideas that the Catholic Church did not agree with, and THEY were branded so-called Gnostics, and practiced their Heresy called Gnosticism.

So, the easy answer to your question is … YES.
There are (and were) Gnostics who believe that way about Genesis 3.

 

[Ismael]

Is it Gnosticism when someone believes Genesis 3, that when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit that a “veil had been lifted” and they were “aware of their human nature”? Is that what was meant as their Knowledge, from the Tree of Knowledge? That they didn’t lose immortality but became “aware” of their mortality. Is that was what the serpent meant when he said,“You will not die” and “You will be like gods.” They didn’t immediately drop dead and became like gods in that gods know of mortality. and know good and evil because before that, they only knew good. If that isn’t Gnosticism is that called something else?

God told Adam: “Do not eat of that fruit or you will die”. That came true. Adam did not ‘drop dead’, but became a mortal being subjected to death and suffering.

They also DID NOT become gods ad the Serpent promised… rather they did come to know “their shame”, i.e. they lost their innocence.

Gnostics, in general, believed the material world was evil and created by and evil deity (the Demiurge)… but Genesis 1-2 does NOT suggest that at all! Genesis 3 does not suggest that either.

If there is a lesson in Genesis 3 is that man fall was caused by his pride because “he wanted to be like God”, while it was not his right at all.

 

[CatholicSoxFan]

I think the tree of knowledge of good and evil was an allegory of subjective morality. Adam and Eve would have been tempted to accept a new insight into what is good, so to speak, that was not the objective morality based on God’s nature.