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• Gen 3:22 . . And Jehovah God said: The man has now become like one of
us, knowing good and evil.
Actually, the Serpent had predicted that very thing.
• Gen 3:5 . . God knows that when you eat [from the tree in the midst of the
garden] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good
and evil.
The "knowing" spoken of here is an intuitive kind of knowing rather than an
instructed knowing. In other words: prior to tasting the forbidden fruit,
neither Adam nor his wife had a conscience; which is at least part of the
reason why the pre-fruit days in the Garden are called the era of innocence.
Now, the problem is; this newly acquired conscience of theirs wasn't from
God, it was obtained from the Serpent who, we're told, has the power of
death and the ability to tamper with the human mind and body in ways not
easily detected. (Heb 2:14, Luke 13:16, Mark 5:1-5, and Eph 2:2)
As such, humanity's sense of right and wrong is unreliable. Due to its satanic
nature rather than divine, the human moral compass easily deviates from
true north by means of emotional, social, cultural, and ethnical influences.
We rationalize a lot too.
Although humans are stuck with their unholy moral compass, it's possible to
at least sterilize it. According to Heb 9:1-14, Christ's blood does this for us; and
we never need to get our conscience sterilized ever again, i.e. the one time is
good for all time.
NOTE: Sterilization was part of the once-a-year Yom Kippur ritual; but as
good as the sterilization was, it was only effective for that one event. The
people had to undergo sterilization all over again the following year.
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• Gen 3:22 . . And Jehovah God said: The man has now become like one of
us, knowing good and evil.
Actually, the Serpent had predicted that very thing.
• Gen 3:5 . . God knows that when you eat [from the tree in the midst of the
garden] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good
and evil.
The "knowing" spoken of here is an intuitive kind of knowing rather than an
instructed knowing. In other words: prior to tasting the forbidden fruit,
neither Adam nor his wife had a conscience; which is at least part of the
reason why the pre-fruit days in the Garden are called the era of innocence.
Now, the problem is; this newly acquired conscience of theirs wasn't from
God, it was obtained from the Serpent who, we're told, has the power of
death and the ability to tamper with the human mind and body in ways not
easily detected. (Heb 2:14, Luke 13:16, Mark 5:1-5, and Eph 2:2)
As such, humanity's sense of right and wrong is unreliable. Due to its satanic
nature rather than divine, the human moral compass easily deviates from
true north by means of emotional, social, cultural, and ethnical influences.
We rationalize a lot too.
Although humans are stuck with their unholy moral compass, it's possible to
at least sterilize it. According to Heb 9:1-14, Christ's blood does this for us; and
we never need to get our conscience sterilized ever again, i.e. the one time is
good for all time.
NOTE: Sterilization was part of the once-a-year Yom Kippur ritual; but as
good as the sterilization was, it was only effective for that one event. The
people had to undergo sterilization all over again the following year.
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