This is the one thing God says, "Don't do this! You can have everything else in this garden," Presumably, even, you can eat of the tree of life, right?

这是上帝所说的一件事，“不要吃这个，你可享用园子中其他任何东西“,我们猜想，你甚至能吃生命树，对吧？

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I pay too much attention to suffering and that suffering is not what God wants, that we need to concentrate on God's blessings, which are that we be healthy and wealthy.

我过于注重受苦这件事了,受苦并非上帝希望的，我们需要专注于上帝的赐福才对，我们要健康，要富裕。

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Perhaps because they have become wise in that they have learned they have moral choice. They have free will, they can defy God and God's plans for them in a way that animals and natural phenomena cannot.

也许是因为，他们在拥有智慧以后,明白他们有道德选择，他们有自由的意愿,可以反抗上帝为他们决定的命运,而这些事动物和自然无法做到的。

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