"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Genesis 1:31
Heaveno my friends,
When Adam and Eve were living in the Garden of Eden, they did not yet know "evil". They didn't even know what it was to be naked...
They were living in God's perfect creation. A creation that was perpetually sustainable. A creation in which eternal life in the physical was the only reality.
However, it was "eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil" that caused them to open their eyes and realize that they were naked (Genesis 3:7)... and eventually caused them to grow old and die.
Here's my theory:
God is the Creator, he created everything, including everything that lives, along with the environment that allows it to live. Man and Woman did not die until their "eyes were opened" after eating from the tree of knowledge, which is when they "became like God, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:22)...
Essential, when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, they became creators, like God, and started in a new direction of creating a reality that is different from the Garden of Eden... A reality that would surely cause them to die...
Ever since the moment Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, mankind has been creating a reality that is nothing like the Garden of Eden. In fact, we have been cutting down forests and putting up walls around us to live in. We have been building cities and entertaining ourselves in ways that did not exist in the Garden of Eden. We have covered our eyes with sunglasses, wrapped our bodies in clothes, exposed ourselves to loud music, ingested processed foods, etc. and we are all living very short lives in comparison to Adam and Eve and their direct decedents...
However, I believe that all of this has been necessary...
It has been necessary for us so that we can understand that there is not, and cannot be, a more perfect creation, in which we can live eternally in the physical, than God's original creation (that of the Garden of Eden). In fact, any other attempted creations will, and have, surely led to death...
Which is why the word evil (in the tree of knowledge of good and evil) comes after the word good and is simply the word live backwards... Because "good" is what God created, and to live a life that is backwards from the lives we lived in the Garden of Eden (God's perfect creation) is evil and leads to death...
And after all these years, we are still living evil lives... and dying.
But the good new is that we now know both good and evil... What we choose to do with this knowledge is what will determine if we choose to die or to "put forth our hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever" (Genesis 3:22)
Heaveno my friends,
When Adam and Eve were living in the Garden of Eden, they did not yet know "evil". They didn't even know what it was to be naked...
They were living in God's perfect creation. A creation that was perpetually sustainable. A creation in which eternal life in the physical was the only reality.
However, it was "eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil" that caused them to open their eyes and realize that they were naked (Genesis 3:7)... and eventually caused them to grow old and die.
Here's my theory:
God is the Creator, he created everything, including everything that lives, along with the environment that allows it to live. Man and Woman did not die until their "eyes were opened" after eating from the tree of knowledge, which is when they "became like God, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:22)...
Essential, when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, they became creators, like God, and started in a new direction of creating a reality that is different from the Garden of Eden... A reality that would surely cause them to die...
Ever since the moment Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, mankind has been creating a reality that is nothing like the Garden of Eden. In fact, we have been cutting down forests and putting up walls around us to live in. We have been building cities and entertaining ourselves in ways that did not exist in the Garden of Eden. We have covered our eyes with sunglasses, wrapped our bodies in clothes, exposed ourselves to loud music, ingested processed foods, etc. and we are all living very short lives in comparison to Adam and Eve and their direct decedents...
However, I believe that all of this has been necessary...
It has been necessary for us so that we can understand that there is not, and cannot be, a more perfect creation, in which we can live eternally in the physical, than God's original creation (that of the Garden of Eden). In fact, any other attempted creations will, and have, surely led to death...
Which is why the word evil (in the tree of knowledge of good and evil) comes after the word good and is simply the word live backwards... Because "good" is what God created, and to live a life that is backwards from the lives we lived in the Garden of Eden (God's perfect creation) is evil and leads to death...
And after all these years, we are still living evil lives... and dying.
But the good new is that we now know both good and evil... What we choose to do with this knowledge is what will determine if we choose to die or to "put forth our hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever" (Genesis 3:22)
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