February 9, 2020

Why, according to The Holy Bible, did God not want people - Adam and Eve - to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?  Was it – is it – not important to know the difference between good and evil?

I believe that’s not the point of the story.  After all, God, or Life, has always given all but some very ill people the capacity to reason, and thus to judge good from evil.

Today I believe the point of the story – the reason God forbade partaking of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (or rather the tree of the perception of the knowledge of good and evil) - is that perceptions of good and evil would eclipse love as the foundation of our view of ourselves, of each other, and of the natural world around us.