ELTB Not THAT Tree: Difference between revisions

<ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:16 }} And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.</ref>

from it

to teach us of his holiness  

and that we would someday be examples of his holiness in the dark world.  

<ref>{{bgw| Mt 5:14 }} Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.</ref>

He separated the waters  

<ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:6 }}  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.</ref>  

and brought the fish and flying things from it  

<ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:20 }}  And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.</ref>  

as symbols of those who live in the word  

and the spirit.

He made the dry ground  

<ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:9 }}  And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.</ref>  

and from it made  

<ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:11 }} And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.</ref>

the grass  

, herbs  

, trees  

, and animals,  

<ref>{{bgw| Ge 1:24 }}  And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.</ref>

and they all became symbols for other things.

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"Hi Adam

, I am God

. Let me teach you  

that I am both Holy  

<ref>{{bgw| Le 11:44 }} For I [am] the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I [am] holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.</ref>

It will teach you to disobey me; to make your own rules; it will teach you the lie that you are a God, and when you eat from it you will be separated from me."

<ref>{{bgw| Ge 2:17 }} But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.</ref>

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One day Eve was near the forbidden tree and she saw some animals eating the fruit of the tree. They didn't die! She thought to herself, "Maybe the fruit isn't bad for animals. But I am not an animal, I am from Adam's rib!"   

Then the serpent came by. He approached a large fruit. Eve thought to herself, "Surely he can't eat that!" But the serpent unhinged his jaw and swallowed it whole.  "Oh, he will choke on it!"  But she watched in amazement as the fruit kept it's shape and traveled down the serpent's body.  

<ref>{{bgw| Ge 3:6 }} And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.</ref>

When Eve took a bite, immediately she learned to disobey God. She made her own rules. She thought she was like God making rules, just by disobeying. She gave Adam some.

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So he hid in the tree.

<ref>{{bgw| Ge 3:8 }} And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God [in the tree] of the garden. </ref>  

He learned those things that God didn't want him to know. The tree was called the "Tree of the knowledge of good and evil". It taught Adam how to be evil. There was nothing magic about the tree. All he had to do was disobey God.

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