Ever wonder what the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was?
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[h=1]Job 26:1-7King James Version (KJV)[/h]26 But Job answered and said,
2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
job 26 not 38-41
2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
job 26 not 38-41
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I spect it was a tree that grew in the middle of the garden. The type of fruit was pleasurable, was it an apple tree? I don't know, the bible doesn't say. But it was fruit and fruit that God didn't want them to have. Yet He gave them the will to eat of it or not. So I would propose that it was bad fruit and against the Word of God. Yet they chose to eat this bad fruit. Then realized that they were naked.
We need to realize that we are naked and when we do that, we will see that the only way to cover ourselves is by the blood. God killed some animal and used its skin to cover their nakedness.
He has done the same for us. God Himself became a man and died on the cross that we may be forgiven of our nakedness and be clothed in robes of righteousness. Then we can bear good fruit by the Holy Spirit.
So the tree of knowledge of good and good and evil was sin and by eating it's fruit all the offspring of Adam were born into the sin nature. Meaning that we have no choice but to sin and the only way out is to have faith in the work of the second man, that being Christ and him Crucified. Which makes him the tree of life.
We need to realize that we are naked and when we do that, we will see that the only way to cover ourselves is by the blood. God killed some animal and used its skin to cover their nakedness.
He has done the same for us. God Himself became a man and died on the cross that we may be forgiven of our nakedness and be clothed in robes of righteousness. Then we can bear good fruit by the Holy Spirit.
So the tree of knowledge of good and good and evil was sin and by eating it's fruit all the offspring of Adam were born into the sin nature. Meaning that we have no choice but to sin and the only way out is to have faith in the work of the second man, that being Christ and him Crucified. Which makes him the tree of life.
It means that the knowledge that proceeds from God to man produces understanding. This is precisely what scripture does. Scripture is the surface form of an absolute intelligence the purpose of which is to teach man the mind of God. Have I ever explained to you the three phases of punctuated logic as it relates to scripture?
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[h=1]Hebrews 5:12-14King James Version (KJV)[/h]12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
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[h=1]Hebrews 5:12-14King James Version (KJV)[/h]12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.