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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck  Adam didn't have the full knowledge that God had. Adam was ignorant. God knew about good and evil, but Adam didn't. Adam gained that knowledge once he ate of the tree... the tree that God put them for some odd reason. |
Actually, it's a "set up." : ) The reason is for the "return of man."
God is ever-creating. From God's POV - all is God. But we "fall" and see what we judge as "bad" to be not God/Good. And we judge what is good - in our own eyes, not God's. It freaks us out. We become afraid. Fear makes us do some strange stuff. At some point - after we've done enough fear-motivated weirdness and find out, firsthand, where that gets us - and even what we think is good (from our POV) - can turn on us. We work and toil and trouble - and still we receive no manna (spiritual nourishment).
At some point a light goes off. We see the true limitations of our thinking intellect - and the futility of being slaves to our emotions. We see that we are asleep and trapped in matter. The light that goes off could be called the germination of the seeds of "faith." They are seeds that were there all along - inside us. They were growing and active when we were very young - as children. As we grow older we begin listening more to man's designs than God's designs. We listen to authorities who tell us what to do if we want to make our own way in the world. We are told what is bad and what is good. Very often, the bad becomes the focus. We become fear-motivated - always moving away from what we judge to be bad. Of course, we want to do "good" - but the problem is we often end up defining good by -
what is not bad.
Back to the seeds. They're in our DNA. We just stopped using them. We wanted to use our own "personal" power instead of being channels for God's power. It's all God's power, anyway. There is only
one power.
So, if we provide good ground for the seeds of faith to begin germinating and growing, we begin to allow God to operate through us. This process changes us, and we, again, become as little children. We feel lighter. We have more energy. We stop wasting so much of God's energy swimming upstream and judging what is good and what is bad - in our own eyes. We come to understand that what we think we see with our own two eyes - is an illusion. And that illusion has trapped us. We come to understand - if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.
And we begin the journey of return from the fall, and are, once again, naturally creative - and, as children, become a more unified expression of God's work.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. - Matthew 6:22
My 2¢.