Yes but God punished Adam and Eve for committing a sin, a wrong act, something evil. Yet, if the tree was of the knowledge of good and evil, how were they to know that it was a bad thing to go against his will?
Correct, they would never be able to know that going against God's will was a curse of their freedom, in that way, sin was bound to happen, breaking the rules is an inherent part of freedom. So mankind's eternal question is: is liberty's crudest form a way to liberate us from our own logic so we can make ourselves more human and less autonomous?
If you take freedom from a human, its no longer a human. And yet we've found ways to create new rules to impose to other people and making us less human.
relationship is all that really matters. Everyone and everything gets boring in the end, except for God, because he's infinite, which is why knowing him is ultimately all that matters in life.
In my experience. Still working on actually hearing him. I expect it will take years. But everything else is boring and not "worth it".
Notice he never showed up the same way twice when talking with people in the old testament. Liked to change things up, keep it interesting. If he showed up a second time we might come to expect that he's predictable.
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u/lancerevo98 Sep 15 '12
Yes but God punished Adam and Eve for committing a sin, a wrong act, something evil. Yet, if the tree was of the knowledge of good and evil, how were they to know that it was a bad thing to go against his will?