Reforming (phase 1), Existential Experience of the History of Salvation (step 4), session 2

But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."  - Gen 1, 4-5

Oh, there is so much truth revealed in these two critical verses from our fall. Look at some of the thoughts and lies in this one temptation:

• Knowing - defining - good and evil for ourselves is a good thing.
• It is, in fact, how we should aspire to be like God.
• Doing what God says not to will have positive effects. 
• God has lied to us.

How much we live our lives under the influence of these false premises!

Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. - Gen 1, 7

Yep, they knew good and evil, and it was not a good thing.

Today we often deceive ourselves about good and evil, to rationalize doing what we want. It invariably has hurtful consequences, and eventually our eyes are open and we are dismayed by what we have done.

Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever" -- therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.  - Gen 1, 22-23

The tree of life is not eternally kept from us. The cross has become the tree of life, and when we eat the fruit of this tree, Jesus' very Body and Blood, we have eternal life.

(I want to say more about this, and may edit later.)