Four Areas where W. Lee was Flat Wrong

Cal · 05-07-2012, 01:29 PM

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.

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.

05-07-2012, 01:29 PM	#19
Cal Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: USA Posts: 4,333	Re: Four Areas where W. Lee was Flat Wrong 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. 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.