![]() ![]() Hey, maybe that’s the reason the Lord said we couldn’t, because if we did we’d discover that we were real competition. If we eat it we’d be disobeying the Lord so we’d surrender the innocence thing, but maybe we’d be like gods. In fact, I’ll bet the more they studied it, the more it seemed to offer the promise of great things. And having it close like that gave Adam and Eve the chance to check it out carefully – they probably noticed how really attractive it looked. ![]() Well, humans being wired as we are, that’s the very tree any of us would be interested in. Then He says you can eat the fruit of every tree in the garden - except this one. Mind you, He doesn’t put it at the far end of the south 40, but right in the middle of the garden. I’m reminded of the old Groucho Marx line: “I would never join a club that would consider having someone like me as a member.” In the Genesis story of the Garden of Eden the Lord puts what the Bible calls the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden. From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst ![]()
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