In Genesis 3, everybody notices that Eve adds “nor touch it” to the command not to eat the fruit, but nobody seems to notice that she doesn’t identify the specific tree.
There were TWO trees in the middle of the garden.
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There were even more than two... "freely eat from *any* tree...except *that* one." There were two "in the middle," but they were surrounded by others.
Which makes the serpent's taunt--targeting not only the precise words of God but his goodness--all the more devious, destructive, even murderous (John 8:44).
His first target was the character of God.
(I enjoy your notes. 🤙)
I still have not figured out this portion of Genesis. Which tree was forbidden? Was it both? Is the Tree of Life similar to the Jewish Tree of Life described in Qabbalastic practice?
Either way my current thought is that at this moment Humans separated themselves from other animals on Earth through their consciousness. Animals don’t have a consciousness. When a lion eats its prey, it doesn’t think of its doing good or evil, it’s acting purely on instinct. Humans don’t have this.
