28.4.07

A Possibility?

Well, here's one opinion to that question below ... I heard it recently, and it got me thinking. I'm still not sure whether its right or not ...

In a sense, Satan was telling the truth ... indeed, God said later that "man has become like us" (I love this verse too because it testifies within the first few chapters of the Bible about the Trinity). So, in some way, man became "like God" in knowing good and evil. In another real sense, Satan lied - man did not become nearer to God, but rather fell away from communion with Him!
So, what is knowing good and evil? It couldn't just mean "knowing" in an intellectual sense what good and evil is (because Adam and Eve both knew that it was wrong to eat from the tree). Could it mean "knowing" in the sense of experience? No, probably not, because how would God experience and participate in evil?
So ... perhaps "knowing" good and evil means knowing in the sense of determining good and evil. Just as God, from His very nature, knows and determines what exactly is evil and good, Adam and Eve aspired to that same position as "autonomous law-makers" ... they desired to determine for themselves what was good and evil, and not live under the determining of God in these matters.
End summary - it was an extreme arrogance, hungering for the power and authority to create their own "good and evil," that Satan tempted Adam and Eve with and they both grasped for.

As I said before, I'm not exactly sure if this is the right or only answer to the question below ... but its interesting to ponder. Any thoughts?

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