October 21, 1995
October 21, 1995
The
Bible tells us that, in the beginning, man and woman walked
in Paradise and conversed directly, freely and
often with God -- until they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil. I wonder if that tree wasn’t
actually a different one, the tree of the perception of the knowledge of good
and evil. The fruit of this tree causes us to forget its very name. No wonder God forbade us to taste it: conflicting
perceptions of good and evil seem to lead us away from Jesus’s mission, “to
save, not to judge.”
