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What does the tree of life mean, what does the tree of knowledge of good and evil mean, and what does eating from them mean? (Genesis 2:9, 16–17; 3:6)
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
The meaning of the tree of life, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and eating from those trees is as follows:
- A tree means a human being,” they said. “Its fruit means the good done by that human being’s life. Therefore the tree of life means someone who lives from God.
Because love and wisdom, along with goodwill and faith—or rather, goodness and truth—are God-life in us, the tree of life means people who have those things from God and who have eternal life as a result.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil means those who believe that they live on their own rather than from God—that the love and wisdom and the goodwill and faith—or again, the goodness and truth—that are in them are their own and not God’s. They believe this because the likeness and appearance of their thinking, intending, speaking, and acting on their own is completely convincing.
- Eating from those trees means accepting and internalizing. Eating from the tree of life means accepting eternal life. Eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil means accepting damnation.
The only person who ever became wise on his own and did what was good on his own was the Lord while he was in the world because divinity itself was in him and was his from birth. That is how he became the Redeemer and Savior by his own power.
Conclusion;
Our life is God in us. With God in us, we have heaven and eternal life. Our death, on the other hand, is the conviction and belief that our life is we ourselves and not God. This attitude brings us hell and eternal death, meaning damnation.
We, humans, have been created to receive love and wisdom from God and yet to experience them completely as if they came from us, for the sake of our receiving them and forming a partnership with God. For this reason, we are not born with any love, knowledge, or capability for loving or becoming wise on our own. If we attribute all the goodness of love and all the truth of wisdom to God, we become living human beings. If we attribute them to ourselves, we become dead human beings.
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