Comment from above --------My question is that, if the Adam and Eve archetypes had not eaten from the Tree of Good and Evil, then how on Earth were they supposed to know that disobeying God was "evil"?
I say ----
my view
They didn't know ---God gave them the Command and He gave them the Consequence if they did eat from it ----------that is all they knew ----
Genesis 2 narrates that
God places the first man and woman in a garden with trees of whose fruits they may
eat, but forbids them to
eat from
"the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil.
Adam and Eve only knew God's Goodness and His world and His word ------they had no prior knowledge of what God considered Good and Evil -----they were only experiencing God's Goodness of plenty and Blessings in the Garden -----they were connected to God ----they were ignorant of any evil which would disconnect them from God -----so the remedy for ignorance is Knowledge ------and Satan was hell bent on them gaining that knowledge through him --not God ---
So what does this word evil mean in Hebrew
Transliteration
raʿ
- evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity
- evil, distress, adversity
- evil, injury, wrong
- evil (ethical)
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I say
There are certain things that Adam and Eve were not ready to experience and know ------knowledge is not a bad thing but it can be overwhelming if we are not ready to receive it ---
Hebrews 5 says ---read whole Chapter Yourselves for Context --------I am just posting this
Every high priest is selected from among the people and is appointed to represent the people in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. This is why he has...
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Warning Against Falling Away
11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
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I believe ----That God would have trained them to understand -
----that God would have known when the time was right for Adam and Eve to gain the knowledge of good and evil ---God put the Tree in the Garden so it was for a purpose that God would put such a tree there ----we are to serve God and give all glory to God -------For God to pick the time of when this knowledge would be revealed to Adam and Eve they would have been ready to receive and understand it --the Glory would have been God's ---- Adam and Eve would have benefited from the knowledge ---but they were not ready to receive this type of knowledge and it overwhelmed them -------
One minute they were experiencing Peace and Harmony and a good life ---the next they are experiencing distress and misery and banished from their home --and not really understanding what just happened -----fear ---anxiety ---Feeling Shame and Guilt ----a sense of loss of their peace and harmony and their home gone ----they learned quickly what God meant by them dying if they disobeyed Him -------
