Is the fruit of evil, concepts like lust and money?
Did Satan lie/convince/tempt Adam and Eve to eat/participate/choose?
Is death a perception tree of choices that includes evil acts and blinds us to God (The Way)?
Is the fruit of man's carnal knowledge, evil? Did satan cause the first evil idea/fruit? Did it only count after we acted (ate) on the evil idea?
Is the fruit of the spirit the good? Is the good and evil of the Tree of Knowledge the fruits/choices?
Has man always been the tree of knowledge or did we become it?
death/sin hides The Way to the level of spirit/life, God wants in us for righteousness. satan is trying to hide The Way to renew our spirit.
it’s cause and effect brother , it wasn’t metaphorical or figurative but rather what they actually did , became our inner nature which is the unseen part.
what I mean is cause
“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17
When they our natural parents. transgressed and partook of the knowledge of good and also evil it produced this inward conflict of good and evil for their offspring
“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Now
if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I find then
a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God
after the inward man: But I see
another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”
Romans 7:19-24
what they actually did , became our struggle with sin . The reason that God forbid the knowledge of good and evil is because we were good then we weren’t conflicted about good and evil until satan introduced us to the conflict in order to kill us with transgression of Gods word
the cause is what they did and the effect is who we are so you have on top of and aside from all
Of this somewhat of a metophore
the world were in is like Eden , there is a teee of life in the center which is Jesus and the gospel which we can eat of and live forever with God in his presence ( the Holy Ghost with us ) but there’s also a forbidden tree producing poison fruit in the garden here this is sin
. And like them we have been informed about it’s poison and instructed to stop partaking of it’s poison , and to instead feed on the tree of life and dwell in the parameters of Eden with the lord rather than being cast out into the darkness and having the fires keep us from the tree of life
