RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 30, 2015 at 8:43 pm
For A&E, there was no knowledge of evil- a blank slate, so to speak, they only knew good.
The choosing of that tree brought the knowledge of evil via rebellion.
(it was God's Eden, God's earth and God's people and God's order, thus it was a rebellion).
We could say disobedience, which is carries a lighter tone to us, but is the same thing.
After having success with turning the first couple to the pursuit of knowledge, the enemy uses that same tactic, only channeling (also a word describing an occult practice of demonic influence) the attention of people to the achievement of greater states of knowledge while NEGLECTING the giver of life.
That is what I mean.
Having a broad understand of things is great, but if that is all there is to life, the most important thing is undone.
The choosing of that tree brought the knowledge of evil via rebellion.
(it was God's Eden, God's earth and God's people and God's order, thus it was a rebellion).
We could say disobedience, which is carries a lighter tone to us, but is the same thing.
After having success with turning the first couple to the pursuit of knowledge, the enemy uses that same tactic, only channeling (also a word describing an occult practice of demonic influence) the attention of people to the achievement of greater states of knowledge while NEGLECTING the giver of life.
That is what I mean.
Having a broad understand of things is great, but if that is all there is to life, the most important thing is undone.
