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God often uses a symbolic language to describe spiritual truths. He often uses natural and physical things to teach us of spiritual things. It is only by the Spirit of God that we can try to decode this hidden manna.
This came up in another thread, but I thought I would share it here as well. God was symbolizing a spiritual truth about the law and sin in the tree of knowledge to know good from evil.
The knowledge to know good from evil is not sin because God knows it as well….
Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know 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:
The sin was transgressing the Command of God not to eat. What many may not understand is what the tree of knowledge represents . The tree of knowledge represents the law of God, for by the law we have the knowledge of good and evil.
This is why after eating of the tree Adam and Eve saw their own nakedness . As Nakedness in scripture is symbolic of having one’s sins exposed.
Paul describes what the serpent did by using the example of the law in
Romans 7:11
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.”
God told Adam and Eve that they would die the day they ate from the tree, but the serpent told them they would not die, but would be like God.
Genesis 3:4
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shallnot surely die:”
This is what Paul is showing here about the law of God.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.”
The law is not what caused the death, but rather sin; as the wage of sin is death. Man could never keep the law of God because of the weakness of his flesh, God knew this, which is why God gave the command. That is also why we can never gain eternal life by keeping all the laws of God.
This is why God put the tree of Life in the Garden, which represents Gods Word of life which we must eat. This is also why Jesus said if we eat His flesh and drink His blood we would have eternal Life.
Peace and God bless
This came up in another thread, but I thought I would share it here as well. God was symbolizing a spiritual truth about the law and sin in the tree of knowledge to know good from evil.
The knowledge to know good from evil is not sin because God knows it as well….
Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know 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:
The sin was transgressing the Command of God not to eat. What many may not understand is what the tree of knowledge represents . The tree of knowledge represents the law of God, for by the law we have the knowledge of good and evil.
This is why after eating of the tree Adam and Eve saw their own nakedness . As Nakedness in scripture is symbolic of having one’s sins exposed.
Paul describes what the serpent did by using the example of the law in
Romans 7:11
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.”
God told Adam and Eve that they would die the day they ate from the tree, but the serpent told them they would not die, but would be like God.
Genesis 3:4
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shallnot surely die:”
This is what Paul is showing here about the law of God.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.”
The law is not what caused the death, but rather sin; as the wage of sin is death. Man could never keep the law of God because of the weakness of his flesh, God knew this, which is why God gave the command. That is also why we can never gain eternal life by keeping all the laws of God.
This is why God put the tree of Life in the Garden, which represents Gods Word of life which we must eat. This is also why Jesus said if we eat His flesh and drink His blood we would have eternal Life.
Peace and God bless
