The meaning of life is to spend eternity with God. In order to be with God, you have to be like God – you have to have God’s nature. The problem of course is that man is NOT like God. So how do we address that inequality? Well, there are basically two ways…
This week we conclude our examination of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil by understanding why eating the fruit of the Tree led to death for Adam and Eve (and consequently, for all of us). It’s easy to see what has become of humanity since the fall of man (just watch an…
In order to understand why eating fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil would lead to death for Adam and Eve we have to first gain an objective understanding of what “good” and “evil” are. In the last post, we examined the Biblical definition of “good”. In this post, we will…
There were two trees in the Eden narrative – the Tree of life, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. One sustained life, the other brought death. In the last post, we saw that life is the ability to repair physically and spiritually. Physical life is in the blood, and spiritual life…
In the first dispensation, Adam and Eve were told that they should not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If they ate from that tree, the result (effect) of that action would be death. While the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil gets most of the attention in…