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I posted this/these in another forum thread about Adam and Eve, and the Garden of Eden, with the serpents temptation, and we kind of were discussing "knowledge" in general, and wanted to make it into a post and get your guys thoughts on it...?
Remember it was the "knowledge of good and evil" or more specifically "thinking you can judge (between) good and evil, by your own (limited) knowledge of good and evil", that was "bad", or even "deadly" even, NOT knowledge in general...
God Bless!
About Adam and Eve, they had no knowledge at all whatsoever of evil, completely foreign concept to them... And what the serpent said to them (out of jealousy, hatred, anger, wrath, and envy) (over and about man and with God even also) Anyway, made them (Adam and Eve) to where they basically might have said back to him, "So, your saying we have to have a knowledge of this of this whole evil "thing" (actually good and evil, for without knowing some evil, neither can you really know what good is even either) (they didn't know what it was, not even remotely or even vaguely) Anyway, (to the serpent) "your saying we have to have a knowledge of this of this whole evil "thing" in order to be like our God...? And, he might have said, "Yes, that is what I am saying."
And they took the bait, knowing nothing, and the serpent probably "laughed all the way" (to the bank) after that, knowing they just gave to the world to him... And after they ate, they got "flooded" and probably very overwhelmed with a knowledge of "all evil" or "all good and evil", and they became very, not only ashamed by some of it, but extremely, extremely, very, very "afraid" never having ever felt fear or guilt or regret or shame before, ever... "It" was all very much and completely "foreign" (concepts) to them, but they got tricked or duped or took the bait, and the rest is history, so to speak, up to now or "today"...
What would be the harm in it, they might have thought (at first) (probably not even knowing what "harm" even was)...?
Well, they found out, didn't they...
I think, (about my post I replied to in this (above)) that the knowledge of knowing the difference (like God does), between all good, and all evil, in a world of both good and evil, anyway, I believe all of that kind of knowledge is much more vast, deep, and is much more complicated and complex, than all the deepest knowledge, of all the deepest mysteries, of this entire universe, but, that my be just me...
Cause it seems that way to me...
Which might make any kind of accurate or any kind of "just judgments" by us, quite impossible, really... And we'd do very well to both know and remember that... Take it from Adam and Eve...
God Bless!
Comments...?
Remember it was the "knowledge of good and evil" or more specifically "thinking you can judge (between) good and evil, by your own (limited) knowledge of good and evil", that was "bad", or even "deadly" even, NOT knowledge in general...
God Bless!
About Adam and Eve, they had no knowledge at all whatsoever of evil, completely foreign concept to them... And what the serpent said to them (out of jealousy, hatred, anger, wrath, and envy) (over and about man and with God even also) Anyway, made them (Adam and Eve) to where they basically might have said back to him, "So, your saying we have to have a knowledge of this of this whole evil "thing" (actually good and evil, for without knowing some evil, neither can you really know what good is even either) (they didn't know what it was, not even remotely or even vaguely) Anyway, (to the serpent) "your saying we have to have a knowledge of this of this whole evil "thing" in order to be like our God...? And, he might have said, "Yes, that is what I am saying."
And they took the bait, knowing nothing, and the serpent probably "laughed all the way" (to the bank) after that, knowing they just gave to the world to him... And after they ate, they got "flooded" and probably very overwhelmed with a knowledge of "all evil" or "all good and evil", and they became very, not only ashamed by some of it, but extremely, extremely, very, very "afraid" never having ever felt fear or guilt or regret or shame before, ever... "It" was all very much and completely "foreign" (concepts) to them, but they got tricked or duped or took the bait, and the rest is history, so to speak, up to now or "today"...
What would be the harm in it, they might have thought (at first) (probably not even knowing what "harm" even was)...?
Well, they found out, didn't they...
I think, (about my post I replied to in this (above)) that the knowledge of knowing the difference (like God does), between all good, and all evil, in a world of both good and evil, anyway, I believe all of that kind of knowledge is much more vast, deep, and is much more complicated and complex, than all the deepest knowledge, of all the deepest mysteries, of this entire universe, but, that my be just me...
Cause it seems that way to me...
Which might make any kind of accurate or any kind of "just judgments" by us, quite impossible, really... And we'd do very well to both know and remember that... Take it from Adam and Eve...
God Bless!
Comments...?