From That Tree You Shall Not Eat

Hi! and happy good mid-week to all of us, GUYS.  Our "daily bread" this Wednesday:

THE GOOD NEWS (08 February 2017)

"On the day that YAHWEH GOD made the earth and the heavens, there was not yet on the earth any shrub of the fields, nor had any plant yet sprung up, for YAHWEH GOD had not made it rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the earth, but a mist went up from the earth and watered the surface of the earth.

Then YAHWEH GOD formed Man, dust drawn from the clay, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and Man became alive with breath.  GOD planted a garden in Eden in the east and there he placed Man whom HE had created.  YAHWEH GOD caused to grow from the ground every kind of tree that is pleasing to see and good to eat, also the tree of Life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

A river flowed from Eden to water the garden and from there it divided to form four main streams.  The name of the first river is Pishon.  It is the one that flows around all the country of Havilah where there is gold, and the gold of that country is good; bidellium and onyx stone are there.  The name of the second river is Gihon.  It is the one that flows around all the land of Cush.  The name of the third river is Tigris.  It is the one that flows to the east of Assyria.  The fourth river is the Euphrates.

YAHWEH GOD took Man and placed him in the garden of Eden to till it and take care of it.  Then YAHWEH GOD gave an order to Man saying, 'You may eat of every tree in the garden, but of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you will not eat, for on the day you eat of it, you will die.'" - Genesis 2:5-17 

The Garden Of Eden

(Notice how YAHWEH, the good craftsman and artist that HE is, works the clay with HIS own hands, looking at the one who is still unable to know HIM and preparing him to receive from HIS "blowing" both breath and life or the human soul. 

Adam is placed in the garden to cultivate it: humanity will be built up at the same time as it takes possession of the world.  It will have to toil for many centuries in order to develop, to know itself and to know what it can do.

What is the meaning of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?  Good and evil mean this: what is good and useful and what is not.  So this tree is the tree of wisdom, of the art of living and of being happy.  GOD opens up a road of wisdom before humankind, but human beings are free.  Will they refuse to travel that road, not to be the ones who know and decide authoritatively what will be good for them?)

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