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It Was The Gardener In The Garden With The Law

Why did God place in Eden a Tree that He then forbade mankind to eat from it?

At that point in history that single command represented the entirety of God’s law to men. But what was God up to. If he didn’t want the tree to be used as a food source, why not leave it out of the garden altogether?

Was God just trying to assert his control and domination over humans? Why give man an opportunity to rebel and bring so much suffering to this planet?

The Big Boss

Many people look at God as just a big boss in the sky. If you do what he wants, you’ll get a reward and if you don’t do what he want’s he’ll burn you for eternity.

Love doesn’t play into it much. How can you love someone who in essence says, love me or die, obey me or be tortured?

Freedom in The Tree

It would appear that the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil was an integral part of creation specifically created for the purpose of allowing people to exercise their free will.

If there were no opportunities to ignore God’s law, man would not have a free will.

The tree was not so much about obeying or disobeying as it was about trust and faith in the goodness of God.

The inevitable resulting death was not a punishment for disobeying God, nor was it a coercion to be God’s law keepers. It was the inevitable results of stepping out of the life stream of God.

Just as a plant will die if kept from the sun so to will anyone kept from the rays of God’s life giving force.

The Recreation

When you create light you also create dark and when you define hard you also define soft.

Once God endowed his crowning work of creation on this earth with free will, evil then existed in potential. God knew this and had a plan. This plan was not an oops-didn’t-see-that-coming kind of plan but a plan that was part of the original creation.

It involved 1/3 of the triune God substituting for fallen mankind in order to allow them to remake the bad choice Adam made in Eden.

This would allow God’s creation to have free will and be sinless for eternity. Sadly, not everyone will avail themselves of this opportunity and will remain outside of God’s life stream to eventually wink out of existence for all eternity.