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Originally Posted by Igzy
This speaks to another error by Lee, that the tree represented Satan and by eating it man took Satan into his body. There is no evidence biblically that this happened. Man fell because he corrupted himself, not because he took Satan into his body.
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Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
From the verses above, we see that in Gen 1:31, there was no sin in man. By the time we reach Rom 7, there is sin in man.
At what point did sin enter man? What is the substance which when introduced into man created sin in man?
My answer is what I understand from Br. Lee's writings -
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents Satan. When man ate from the tree of knowledge of good and even, death (the source of which is Satan) entered into man.
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Originally Posted by Igzy
Essentially, eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil equates to acting under the belief that "I don't need God to decide what is good and what is evil."
This is exactly what Adam and Even did when they decided to go against God's command. They decided for themselves what was right and wrong.
Disobedience is, essentially, deciding you know better than God. Therefore, any disobedience is eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This upholds the more mainstream belief that it was disobedience that caused man's fall, not literal "eating."
Eating from the tree was accomplished in their minds before they partook of anything physical. The tree of knowledge of good and evil may have actually been benign itself, because the act of deciding for themselves, in contradiction to God, what was good and evil was itself a partaking of the essence of what the tree represented.
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As I said before, I do not think eating the tree of knowledge of good and evil was just an act of disobedience. I agree with Br. Lee that it was man ingesting sin into his body.