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(Part 9mx of 11)
Knowing what we now do about cherubim, kerubim, nuters, asherah trees, serpents, nehustan and graven images, we can now go back and read Genesis 2 and 3 to understand early events in the Garden of Eden.
1. God made trees to look at and trees for food. Also in the middle of the garden was a tree of life and a tree of knowledge of good and evil.
2. Only the tree of knowledge of good and evil was off limits. If you eat the fruit or touch the tree, you will die the same day.
a) The serpent was telling the truth because both Eve and Adam ate the forbidden fruit and did not die.
3. Why didn't God want his children, his highest creations, made in his image to know good and evil? Were humans just supposed to live naive lives regarding good or evil?
4. The serpent is described as subtle and crafty. So why would God put this in a garden where humans were not supposed to understand good or evil, but yet the serpent did? Let me just put a master trickster in among innocent children and see what happens?
5. Furthermore, if Eve and Adam had no knowledge of good and evil, how could they know they were doing evil by eating the fruit or being deceived?
6. Adam said it was Eve's fault. Eve said it was the serpent's fault. So why didn't the serpent say it was God's fault. It was. Nobody else created anything or made any rules. Why didn't God say, “my bad y'all?”
7. Why was the first knowledge of evil awareness of nakedness? Why is nakedness evil if they were husband and wife and there were no other humans around? Why wasn't the first knowledge of good and evil – oops!
8. By telling the woman that your husband will rule over you, this is yet another form of lowering the esteem of the female.
9. And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” Initially the tree of life was not forbidden, but later on, God did not want it to be eaten from either. So humans can't live forever, but the whole thing about religion is to live forever. Why didn't the serpent tell them to also eat of the tree of life, if the serpent was so crafty? Did the serpent just want to get folks in trouble?
a) What kind of god doesn't want you to understand the difference between good and evil and does not want you to live forever? A god appropriate for a time when books and access to information was limited. Despite the suboptimal woes of the internet and privacy invasions, it is also being used for optimal purposes.
10. Eve and Adam are the two truths.
11. Eve and the serpent are the two truths.
12. The tree of knowledge of good and evil is the two truths.
13. The tree of life and the tree of knowledge are the two truths.
14. The serpent and god are the two truths. The serpent of darkness is the other side of god, the son and serpent of light. We know this based on all we know. God created things in pairs. Where was the other serpent?
15. Nile Valley teachings and the teachings of other lands are the two truths.
16. While the spirit supporting Judaism, Christianity and all other religions, was at work rewriting African mythology and eschatology, and also rewriting human history, the other half of spirit was helping those same males write bibles that would help them temporarily but would also prove to be their undoing, which would allow the second truth to move back to first.
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