16.7.06
Tree of Knowledge
The Tree of Knowledge is the other point I wanted to address:
I used to think the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil meant that those eating of it knew what's right and what's wrong. In fact, I read it was a figure of speech that uses opposites to create the idea of a totality. The tree was therefore: "The tree of (total) knowledge"
Knowledge is the only way we can emulate God. The Serpent knew that Knowledge would make humans become like "divine beings", which was translated as: "like the gods" or "like God."
Without knowledge, we remain in a state of ignorance and innocence in which learning, understanding and progressing is impossible. Such a state is devoid of sorrow and joy, failures and achievements. In short, it is not much of a life.
Had our first parents not eaten of the fruit, this is the so-called life the sons and daughters of Man would have had. The eating of the fruit made our kind aware, and it made Mankind realize that there is much more to life than mere survival. It was wrong to eat the fruit, because God had forbidden it. However, God also gave us our free agency. We were free to choose. Sometimes a parent knows we need to get hurt so we may learn and grow up.
We are divine beings in the making. I kind of see this Earth as a school for our divine spirits united to our material bodies.
I used to think the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil meant that those eating of it knew what's right and what's wrong. In fact, I read it was a figure of speech that uses opposites to create the idea of a totality. The tree was therefore: "The tree of (total) knowledge"
Knowledge is the only way we can emulate God. The Serpent knew that Knowledge would make humans become like "divine beings", which was translated as: "like the gods" or "like God."
Without knowledge, we remain in a state of ignorance and innocence in which learning, understanding and progressing is impossible. Such a state is devoid of sorrow and joy, failures and achievements. In short, it is not much of a life.
Had our first parents not eaten of the fruit, this is the so-called life the sons and daughters of Man would have had. The eating of the fruit made our kind aware, and it made Mankind realize that there is much more to life than mere survival. It was wrong to eat the fruit, because God had forbidden it. However, God also gave us our free agency. We were free to choose. Sometimes a parent knows we need to get hurt so we may learn and grow up.
We are divine beings in the making. I kind of see this Earth as a school for our divine spirits united to our material bodies.
# poster: Mormon(s) of another kind at 14:12 
