This has always kind of bothered me. Wasn’t one forbidden tree enough? Seems like those youngsters were walking through a virtual maze of forbidden trees.
The Two Trees, Part 1 and 2: The Tree Of The Knowledge Of Good and Evil and The Tree of Life
PatriotandLiberty | 2022 | Mark SnoebergerAmong the many trees in the Garden of Eden, Scripture tells us, stood two trees of great significance: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life.
I often wonder if everything would have been cool if Eve had made a bunch of killer apple pies with all that fruit because the stench of hundreds of rotten apples smells, well, pretty rotten.
In my backyard:
The tree of angry hornets.
The tree of freshly washed car defecation.
The tree of infinite lawn sticks.
The tree of chipmunk roof grenades.
This last one is a massive spruce tree that fruits 1.6 million pine cones to pick up every year. The chipmunks cut all the cones and let them fall to the ground for later collection. Unfortunately the flat roof of my garage is directly below the tree, so those cones hit the roof at about Mach 7. Nothing like pinecone gunshots at 3 AM to get you to post up at a second floor window with an air rifle.
But what of the third tree? No one speaks of it.
There was only one forbidden tree. The tree of life was not forbidden, Eve chose the only tree that they were told was forbidden. After the fall, man was kicked out of the Garden of Eden, and thus at that point could not partake in the tree of life.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If only they had cameras back then then someone ould have thrown out the red flag to check the replay monitor. They should have named it the Garden of Eve-IL because she’s the one that messed everything up….WOMEN!
Why would God create such an imperfect creature?
He created me, so that’s certainly cause for pause.
God: “You try. Ostriches were a mistake. Silly-looking things. Avocados: made the pit too big. Like I say, you try.”
— Oh, God!
I face all kinds of temptations. God did not create robots, he created human beings, that have choices. The choices are what makes us human. The outcome of all of our bad choices, is that HE paid our price on the cross, so we could be saved from our sins, and go to heaven.
Eve was tempted by satan, and where was Adam while this was going on? Why wasn’t he protecting her from the serpant?
Probably playing Call to Duty.
That clears one thing up. I always thought it was the tree of the knowledge of life and death. But I suppose the Tree of Life was still forbidden in the sense that it was not permissible to chop it down to make tent pegs and firewood.
Reviewing all these comments gave me a woody, maybe I’ll just leaf it at that…
Before humans had Knowledge Of Good and Evil they didn’t have a conscience, and were animals! Thank you, Satan, for stealing this feature from God and giving it to humans so they could live up to their potential. Or should we call you Prometheus?
Satan: “Thank you so much for believing in me and setting the record straight but I’m still throwing you into the lake of fire..bwahahahaha.
Damn is that Satan guy strict!
You should see what happens when you chew gum in line.
On a slightly different track, it wasn’t an apple. Apples don’t grow well in the kind of climate you can run around nekkid in. More likely figs. After all what did they grab for loincloths?
I heard it was a pomegranite.