Was Earth Created By God To CLEANSE The Universe Of Evil?

The tree was put in to test man. You cant give man freewill by limiting his choice to do wrong, which he did. To choose poorly, which he did. And yes i do believe God knew what would happen. I believe it was part of his plan. To test mankind of every generation until judgement day. To see who would stay faithful and who would choose Satan and evil over God and righteousness. And vice versa. Theres so much to life, so much to enjoy that we forget that God has only one thing on his mind, which is his eternal plan.

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What is evil about the knowledge of good and evil?

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With our eyes open. Our eyes would be open to all things in the light of our own sinfulness. Mankind wants to live without God. He wants to be independent of God and his rules. There has always been a temptation to be like God.Sin is potrayed in scripture as falling short of the glory of God, going astray and even trespassing (exercising our own free-will in the realm of divine authority). The desire to do things our way rather than Gods way is considered a sin. The problem with the sin-nature of man was that Adam and Eve knew good, but were unable to do it, and they knew evil, but were unable to resist it. If God DOES exist then there are no ifs or buts about it. Sin is a personal insult to God and his character therefore his holiness demands sin to be judged. But through Jesus Christ we can escape sin and the judgement of sin.

Because knowing good and evil means you can also perform evil. But evil is contrary to Gods rules. This means that man can murder, be sexually immoral, blaspheme God and every other sin there is. If man did not have knowledge of this. He would be living pure and holy like God right?

I dont understand?