GENESIS 2:16

 Q: In Genesis 1:29 we see that man can eat the fruit from every tree in the planet, but then in chapter 2 it says that he could not eat from the tree of knowledge…..why the discrepancy? 

 There are several ways to deal with this apparent contradiction:

(a) the tree of knowledge is a metaphorical tree

(b) it doesn't contain seeds in its fruit

(c) it hadn't been created yet.

(d) Chapter 2, as a more detailed account, gives further clarification to Chapter 1.

One could just as easily point to the same apparent contradiction between the two halves of Genesis 2:16 

itself. In that case, we would probably reword the sentence to read, “You can eat of all the trees except...”