You've completely missed the boat on why God told them not to partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He purposefully set up a situation whereby they had to transgress in order to become fallen, understand good from evil (in other words, LEARN HOW TO JUDGE and then act accordingly), live by faith (Abraham 3), multiply and replenish the earth and so forth. These are the very things we needed to do and experience in order to be come like God, as we all signed off on it in the pre-mortal existence. We weren't going to get anywhere with Adam and Eve leaving the tree alone because God didn't want them judging.
If we don't exercise judgement, we simply will not be able to become more like God; we will be tossed to and fro by the various winds of doctrine/philosophy.
If I read stuff from Robin Finderson, you, Seattle Ute, Archaea, Gordon B. Hinckley, Mormon, etc. how do I know what I should do in the absence of exercising judgement?
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