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<blockquote>Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/19:39 Jn 19:39])</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Nicodemus, the one who had first come to him at night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/19:39 Jn 19:39])</ref></blockquote> | ||
So "the wise and the learned" can discover God. They just have use <u>both</u> wings of faith <u>and</u> reason, and wrap their minds around belief: that is, not to let the limits of reason impede the mysterious. | So "the wise and the learned" can discover God. They just have use <u>both</u> wings of faith <u>and</u> reason, and wrap their minds around belief: that is, not to let the limits of reason impede the mysterious. | ||
== The Tree of Knowledge == | |||
What did Satan tempt Adam and Eve with? It wasn't sex, although that followed, as the fruit tasted "good" and was most "pleasing." Literally, it was to "be like gods"<ref>Fascinating that Satan used the plural "gods." Even the most fallen one couldn't bring himself to say "like God."</ref> -- to know what God knows, to "know good and evil" ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/3 Gen Ch 3]) | |||
If the penalty of eating of the "tree of knowledge" is death, how do we reconcile knowledge with salvation and truth? | |||
I suppose we could take the easy route and say that only God knows "good and evil," so if we pretend to know it, we fall short of God, which is death. | |||
Or, more elaborately, we might say that knowledge of good and evil is salvation itself, for if we have free will, then to know absolute good is to know its opposite, evil. And we have to choose. | |||
Adam and Even propose many troubles for us here, but therein lies a much deeper consideration than I am capable of here. | |||
I will leave it that we inherit Adam and Eve's curiosity -- and the curse that accompanies it. | |||
== From the "mouths of babes" == | == From the "mouths of babes" == | ||