3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
,,,this passage comes to mind for me quite often in modern times,,,it exemplifies the crafty way that MORAL wrong(sin) can be rationalized for the pleasure of the flesh
I believe that the CREATOR has vast knowledge beyond what the creation could ever understand especially concerning matters of the spirit. I believe the creation has allowed matters of the flesh to be prioritized to the point of making matters of the spirit either extinct or to be determined by the creation, instead of the creator.
In this passage, God clearly had an understanding that his creation would not grasp in terms of eternal(spiritual) life, and instructed them clearly. Yet, because the flesh was curious and tempted, it took little rationalization for his creation to actually interpret Gods warning as something neutral or even as a recommendation.
notice the pattern, it is so similar to so many of the modern issues of morality we face today
1. Did God REALLY say that? (How often do we quibble over what a scripture REALLY means or if the bible REALLY says this that or the other, usually when it comes to restraint or discipline that will deny the flesh what it wants?)
2. If you eat from it, you will be like God, being like God is good.( How many times do we use 'logic' to make something forbidden into something that is actually a good thing instead. Specifically the concepts of being 'happy' or feeling 'love' are used to rebrand what is forbidden)
its not for the weak willed to try to walk the straight line, we are all flawed humans, but this is food for thought when we are determining whether our 'logic' in biblical interpretation is motivated by pleasing God or by pleasing our Flesh....
Edited by
msharmony
on Fri 07/21/17 09:41 AM
