Domenic: This is what I believe about the tree in the garden.

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What I believe took place in the Garden. God knew people would rewrite some of his scriptures. What he did, was hide some of the truth. He knew those seeking would find the truth, and reason it out.


There once was a man in London, who would stand on a corner, and for some amount of change, I don’t remember how much, would from memory recite any scripture word for for word. I have never met a Christian that could do that. This man was not a Christian, nor did he believe in God.


I know a truth. It is not the amount of Bible knowledge one has, but heart condition.



Here is how I believe events in the Garden took place.

One tree in the Garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Genesis 2:17...was this a real tree, or a symbolic tree?
Many believe some writing in the Bible is symbolic. For some reason, the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, is accepted as a literal tree who’s fruit, if ate, will give the eater knowledge of good, and bad? I have always believed it to be a symbolic tree.

This is my logic on it. Trees bear fruit. When Mary was pregnant with Jesus, her cousin Elizabeth said, “Bless it is the fruit of they womb.” Here an un-born Jesus is referred to as fruit. How are babies made? With a seed, fruit trees are also made with a seed,. Most living things start with a seed. There are many seeds in the Bible. When God was talking to the serpent in the Garden, Genesis 3:15, which what the complete Bible is about, God said, “I shall put enmity (hate) between your (the serpent) seed, and the women (Jesus.) seed.” The serpent is identified for the first time in the Bible in Rev 12:7-10 as Satan…so we know the serpent in the Garden was Satan, who was an angel. Angels can not reproduce, so why would God talk about Satan having a seed? True, many times God , like his son Jesus, give illustrations in the symbolic mode. In this case, God is condemning Satan to a future death. This is not an illustration, here God is condemning one of his creatures. In all the other condemning God has done, he does not use the symbolic mode…He is clear as a bell as to what he is saying, God is going to have his son Kill Satan in the future, for something Satan has done with a seed? I thought on this for many years. One night I was talking to God. (no God does not talk back to me.) I asked him, “I know you have a lot of secret stuff, and I’m not asking you tell me any of the things you like to keep secret, but, this thing in the Garden, if it’s not secret, can you tell me what the heck is going on?”


The very next day I understood. I wrote it down…it all seemed to make sense. But I didn’t trust what I believed, after all, people seeking an answer to something, always come up with one, real or not…and I’m people too, so I figured my mind just made up an answer to just shut me up. I tried to forget the answer my mind gave me. For months It keep creeping back into my thinking…Satan had a seed, Satan had a seed. The trees in the garden? There were the human tree, the animal tree, and the flying creatures of the air tree.


Adam and Eve could take of the human seed, not the animal, or flying creature of the air seed. It made no sense? Even it they took of the animal seed, (sex) Eve could not get pregnant?


When God Commands somebody to do something,, he makes sure they do it whether they want to or not. After Adam was created, God told the angels to serve man. Angeles are powerful, and super intelligent. They have been around for maybe billions of years, and they are in the presents of God…that’s a high position. Being asked to serve man, who in an angels eye must look like a weak creature, with the brain of a jellyfish. Serving man may have seemed like a big demotion. I guess it would be like God asking humans to become servants to worms. Anyway, and for whatever reason, many revolted against this. Like I stated earlier, if one of Gods creatures refuses to do what God has commanded, God forces them to do it anyway. In the case of this revolt, God cast these angels down to earth in a form they had to stay. Since the angels felt they were better than man, he put them in the garden a step lower than man. An angelic, man like animal. We could call them the highest form of animal…with seed that could mix with human. These angels would be of the animal tree.


One of our members Nautilis posted that humans have 98.5 DNA sequences with primate, specifically chimpanzees. I agree with this fact of science. Why would God create man with any part of animal DNA?


I think Satan took advantage to use the position of the fallen angels to to get Adam and the women in trouble with God, which would release the angels from serving man, and also give Satan followers. I know this sounds somewhat far fetched from what many believe, but is it any more far fetched that a tree, whose fruit if eaten, would all of a sudden give the eater all this great knowledge of good and bad? Satan was still an angel, for he was allowed to come and go in and out of Heaven, those stuck on earth could not. Satan had to use the animal human like body of one of these fallen angels to seduce the women…impregnate her with animal seed…the seed God was talking about.


After the women gave birth to Cain, Adam started calling the women Eve, which means giver of life. It is the male who is the giver of life because the male has the seed.


In Genesis neither Cain, or Able are listed as children of Adam. The Bible says Adam knew his wife (sex), and Cain was born. It does not say, Adam had a son named Cain? It is Seth. who is the first child of Adam listed in the Bible, and this was one hundred and thirty years later.

Animals always aged and died, they are not souls, nor refered to as souls. Man was not designed to die. When the human family got infected with animal seed, they also died. The only two never infected with animal seed were Adam and Eve…they died at a judgment from God. Note, at that judgment, God is clear…no symbolic talking here either.

Genesis 3:15 speaks of future events of the seed of Jesus. Jesus was born with no animal DNA, animal seed. Jesus could have brought children into the world free of death.

I believe with my whole heart, it was that unborn pure human race within Jesus that was sacrificed for our human family. It also takes three day after a man dies, before all of his sperm dies.

One member asked, “When Adam and Eve screwed up, why didn’t God just kill them. and start over?” I have asked many young people getting married after knowing each other for just a few months, “What will you do if you have problems?” most replied, “Get a divorce.” God does not start something, and if there are problems, wad it up and throw it away.


Satan does not want people to know why we die. Religious leaders keep to the story of that magic tree. It’s funny what people will believe. Ponce de Leon wasted his last years looking for the Fountain of Youth. There are some today who still believe there is such a Fountain.

Humans are not all that smart. When people used to ask me, “You still believe in God?” I would always reply, “He likes me. I make him laugh. One hour each day God tell his angels, “Don’t bother me, I’m watching my dummy…he’s so stupid he’s funny.”

“Yeah? Well if you think I’m stupid, you ought to listen to some of the stories these other guys tell about you. And I'm not going to tell you what they are, cause it's a secret.”
 
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Domenic please sit down with someone who can read and understand hebrew. Greek english latin are very abstract languages Hebrew is both pictographic and phenitic it is very concrete not abstract Please look up a guy His name is Jeff Benner just take your time and learn you can do it I did it. I can 100% prove the Torah and most of the scriptures were originally in this form It is carved in stone and on walls all over this earth. Please challenge me on this GOD all ways makes away for HIS children. These ideas you are having are a lie from the enemy. The word for tree is ayin tsadiq "ayts" it can also mean a councelor it is all about the contex contex contex I am sorry for being short with you on other threads. Please you are on a very dangerous path.
 

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"I know a truth. It is not the amount of Bible knowledge one has, but heart condition."

When the heart is deceived, in Eden, how can one be sure to recognize the truth after it?
Knowing 'hidden knowledge', that was what the serpent talked about to Eve.
Eve listen to me, I know better than God, I know more.....

How can you be sure if you have no measure to see if your truth is truth?
When your mind is equal to the mind of biblical writers, why would anyone think your version is true instead of what is written in the bible?
 
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Just a few scientific facts:

DNA is basically a chemical formula for life. The same nucleotides are repeated in differing orders in all life we would consider animal life (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds) AND all plant life as well.
Those nucleotides are guanine, adenine, thymine and cytosine. They are arranged in the classic double helix, even in plants.
The sequencing and different protein markers are all that separate one species from another. (again--very basically)
Last I read, scientists were speculating that human DNA resembles dolphin DNA more closely than it does any type of ape's.

Domenic...Almighty God is perfectly able to preserve His written Word.
Either it's all good, or none of it is, do you see?
And none of us should be speculating on what it might mean.
It's there in black and white.

And God's plans and purposes, as revealed to us in the Bible and on the pages of history stand perfect.
He made no mistakes.

with respect,
ellie
 

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In the mouth of two or three witnesses..
 
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didnt want to read it all.
Did Adam have sex with a tree?:p
Was it a hawthorne?
 
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Domenic please sit down with someone who can read and understand hebrew. Greek english latin are very abstract languages Hebrew is both pictographic and phenitic it is very concrete not abstract Please look up a guy His name is Jeff Benner just take your time and learn you can do it I did it. I can 100% prove the Torah and most of the scriptures were originally in this form It is carved in stone and on walls all over this earth. Please challenge me on this GOD all ways makes away for HIS children. These ideas you are having are a lie from the enemy. The word for tree is ayin tsadiq "ayts" it can also mean a councelor it is all about the contex contex contex I am sorry for being short with you on other threads. Please you are on a very dangerous path.
I have read many of Jeff Banners translations of the Hebrew. True he is an expert in the Hebrew language. I will also testify to his translations that prove, Jesus, and God are not the same person. I find it strange, Banner in his theological training learned, Jesus and God are the same person, yet the translations he gives from the Hebrew prove they are not.
Nowhere does Banners translations of, Genesis 3:15 put the English rendering in doubt.
I believe you are lost in mastering the Hebrew language, and have been lead off the path of Gods truth, for you still believe, as Banner, the false doctrines such as, Going to Heaven, or a Hell of fire. Etc.
You seem more puffed with yourself, that you are learning Hebrew, rather than those who may have a clearer understanding of Gods word. No insult intended.
 

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Luke 8:11 [SUP] [/SUP]Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Mhmmm...

Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Lots of things in the bible where people argue whether it is literal or symbolic are actually literal things that happen spiritually. So its both, simultaneously...
 
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Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Mhmmm...

Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Lots of things in the bible where people argue whether it is literal or symbolic are actually literal things that happen spiritually. So its both, simultaneously...
I have noted the honest replies in comments you have made on the forum. You think before you speak. Would you please expand on your comment. I am interested in how you came to your conclusion? I am not saying it is right, or wrong.
 
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If you think I have any pride left in me after what I have been through in my life well sir I can only tell you that you have made a mistake. Please forgive me if I did any thing to make you believe I am proud of myself. Myself nor Jeff would ever say he has mastered Hebrew no one has. No one has even got passed Genesis 1-1 and goten all the truth from seven words.
When I lay on my face before Yeshua then I will see the only one who has mastered the Hebrew. Yeshua is the HEBREW. ps no insult taken you have the right to your belief but none of us have the right to add a yod or a tittle to HIS WORD that is how you destroy the TORAH and the PROPHETS Yeshua said that not me.
 

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I have noted the honest replies in comments you have made on the forum. You think before you speak. Would you please expand on your comment. I am interested in how you came to your conclusion? I am not saying it is right, or wrong.
I believe that the whole bible agrees with itself. The answers for questions on the OT are often found in the NT. I find that the OT is usually describing types and shadows and the NT further expounds and sheds light on these types and shadows.

I believe a person must pray for wisdom and understanding in order to begin understanding the bible. I also think that the bible is meant to be understood as a whole.

I may have expanded on something different than what you were asking...
 
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If you think I have any pride left in me after what I have been through in my life well sir I can only tell you that you have made a mistake. Please forgive me if I did any thing to make you believe I am proud of myself. Myself nor Jeff would ever say he has mastered Hebrew no one has. No one has even got passed Genesis 1-1 and goten all the truth from seven words.
When I lay on my face before Yeshua then I will see the only one who has mastered the Hebrew. Yeshua is the HEBREW. ps no insult taken you have the right to your belief but none of us have the right to add a yod or a tittle to HIS WORD that is how you destroy the TORAH and the PROPHETS Yeshua said that not me.

You say I have added to Gods truth. God says “Seek the truth“. He did not say, “This is the truth, so do not think further on it.”
Gods word can not be destroyed. People have changed much of it, and many follow those changes. An examine, and testing of the Bible proves out Gods truth.
Many believe what their church leaders have claimed is Gods truth, but have never tested these things beyond reading a few scriptures.
You have said I drink milk from a baby bottle…are these the words of a humble man?
 
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Domenic will you please answer this one question ARE YOU A JW Please answer yes or no? thank you
 

inge

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"People have changed much of it, and many follow those changes."

What people, did change what?
Is that just the leaders of church you mention? Or do you also doubt the writings in the bible?
"testing of the Bible proves out Gods truth"


Is the Lords Supper, the bread and the wine, that we eat in remembrance of Jesus death, literal, symbolic or both?
So if eating from the Supper can be compared of eating of the Tree of life. Was the tree literal, symbolic or both?
 
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Domenic will you please answer this one question ARE YOU A JW Please answer yes or no? thank you
No I am not a JW. I belong to no religion. I have stated on this forum more than once, I follow no religion. I believe in God, his son, my Lord Jesus, and Gods written word.
 
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"People have changed much of it, and many follow those changes."

What people, did change what?
Is that just the leaders of church you mention? Or do you also doubt the writings in the bible?
"testing of the Bible proves out Gods truth"


Is the Lords Supper, the bread and the wine, that we eat in remembrance of Jesus death, literal, symbolic or both?
So if eating from the Supper can be compared of eating of the Tree of life. Was the tree literal, symbolic or both?
The studies I have done from the Bible, leaves me to believe the tree in the Garden, is a symbolic tree, as your family tree is a symbolic tree...do you believe that makes me a follower of Satan, or some nut case?
 

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Domenic will you please answer this one question ARE YOU A JW Please answer yes or no? thank you
If you go to post 2373 on the thread "The Trinity" you will see he denies the divinity of Jesus and he tells us Jesus died on a stake. :(
 

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The studies I have done from the Bible, leaves me to believe the tree in the Garden, is a symbolic tree, as your family tree is a symbolic tree...do you believe that makes me a follower of Satan, or some nut case?
You pick one question and don't really answer that, so I repeat the most important question in this whole matter. At least that is the most important to me.

Do you think that people did change things in the Bible- is our Bible now incorrect?

I am not sure if you are familiar with it but some things you say remind me strongly of Gnosticism. That is why I asked if you believe the Bible as we read today (and I am familiar there are some differences between the Catholic Bible and Protestant and Coptic and Greek Orthodox) so what Bible is correct you think? Or do you think the Nag Hammadi writings are ok also, for example? When you respond I will be curious if you answer the questions or if you just put a statement and ask me a question again.

In a debate it is not about thinking people are nut cases, I don't think of people that way. But I say things and ask things because I do not agree with you. That can happen, not all people agree with me either.
 
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I think inge is on to something here that is a great point about gnosticism lets see how Domenic replys that is a great trap inge. Good job. What will you do now Domenic the ground is sinking under your feet it is sand.
 
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You pick one question and don't really answer that, so I repeat the most important question in this whole matter. At least that is the most important to me.

Do you think that people did change things in the Bible- is our Bible now incorrect?

I am not sure if you are familiar with it but some things you say remind me strongly of Gnosticism. That is why I asked if you believe the Bible as we read today (and I am familiar there are some differences between the Catholic Bible and Protestant and Coptic and Greek Orthodox) so what Bible is correct you think? Or do you think the Nag Hammadi writings are ok also, for example? When you respond I will be curious if you answer the questions or if you just put a statement and ask me a question again.

In a debate it is not about thinking people are nut cases, I don't think of people that way. But I say things and ask things because I do not agree with you. That can happen, not all people agree with me either.
As a boy i was raised a Catholic. The Catholic Bible has gone through many changes. There was a time when the books in the Bible, and the number system matched other Bibles. That has been changed, and other stranges books( stories) have been added.


I know there have been changes to the Bible, but backing scriptures up with other scriptures pretty much leads to the truth. God says to reason out the word? Things have to make sense. If I were to say, “He runs like a duck flying backward, “ I’m sure you would take it as a symbolic remark that I was saying, In my opinion his running talent is lacking.” There is a thousand ways of saying that, and keep the meaning the same.


I prefer the King James. That is not to say it is the best Bible. I find things that have been changed easer to find in the KJV.


 

I know there have been changes to the Bible, but backing scriptures up with other scriptures pretty much leads to the truth. God says to reason out the word? Things have to make sense. If I were to say, “He runs like a duck flying backward, “ I’m sure you would take it as a symbolic remark that I was saying, In my opinion his running talent is lacking.” There is a thousand ways of saying that, and keep the meaning the same.
I prefer the King James. That is not to say it is the best Bible. I fend what has been changed easer to find in the KJV.

God gave us a safeguard to change. He made sure to somewhat hide things a second place, said in a different way, but with the same meaning. This way, andbody making a change in a passage, would miss the second, even third location of the same passage...that is why Jesus said, "Seek, and you will find.