It’s interesting that we likely have never heard a sermon on the fact that Adam and Eve had done nothing good prior to eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden since they had no knowledge of good. (whew…look at that string of prepositional phrases)
- historical bias toward the evil half of the total knowledge is preached while the good is hardly thought about
- before the fruit, they were good based on the image, not based on their deeds
But men, as they often do, get biased to one perspective and forget that having our eyes opened makes us naturally able to see both sides and choose both sides equally
- an equal distribution creates lawbreakers
Now, there are no consequences for good deeds…only benefits, so men dismiss them and focus on the evil that creates consequences, which is natural to stare at the offense that inflicts and lose sight of the good.
- we watch the whip that hurts
Thousands of years later while looking at the beginning, our apostle wrote about knowledge in the following knowing that actual knowledge is important for the deeds:
“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
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