{"id":1090,"date":"2012-03-22T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2012-03-22T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:06:12","slug":"which-part-of-dont-eat-from-that-tree-didnt-you-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Which part of “Don’t eat from that tree!” didn’t you understand?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Excerpt Beyond Pretend: A Sheep\u2019s Guide to the Universe! \u00a9 2010 by David Lee Scott. All rights reserved, pp 27-28.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A lesson in ethical and moral decision-making as you try to personally answer the question – \u201cWhere am I?\u201d<\/p>\n

The rebel’s rule of convolution …<\/strong>
\nEve\u2019s extended conversation with the snake has a very specific purpose, and it was not to gain a better understanding of God\u2019s words. She wanted a way out, so she applied the rebel\u2019s rule of convolution and transformed a straight line into a maze. She wiggled like a snake to wriggle out of the will of God.<\/p>\n

Which part of “Don’t eat from that tree!” didn’t you understand?<\/strong>
\nOur most important decisions are usually not overly-complex. And the most basic principles of life as God instructs are as clearly defined as \u201cdon\u2019t eat from that tree.\u201d In Matthew 22.40 Jesus squeezed two simple truths out of the entire Law and the Prophets. \u201cLove God. Love your neighbor.\u201d Do we sometimes face very intricate and complex issues? Undeniably. But the greatest proportion of decisions we make are as simple as Eve\u2019s choice in this text. Listen to God and obey him or seek other data to justify a different course for your life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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First play with the words …<\/strong>
\nHer clever adversary knew precisely where to strike. He challenged not her intellect but her will and defeated both ever so deftly with such an innocent question: \u201cDid God really say?\u201d Eve didn\u2019t become entangled in a labyrinth of ethics and morals; she tripped over herself and pulled Adam down with her. They were going to do what they wanted to do and needed some \u201cbiblical\u201d data to back up their decision. Don\u2019t miss this distinction. They didn\u2019t just turn from God in disobedience; they first played with the words, they quoted the words of God for goodness sake,<\/strong> and then set about making their own pudding pie.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t because they cut theology class …
\n<\/strong>Adam and Eve did not sin because they weren\u2019t boned up on the intricacies and complexities of theology or the ethical and moral nuances of the day. They sinned because they disobeyed simple words from the mouth of God. \u201cDon\u2019t eat from that tree.\u201d They fell, and we along with them. In the world as they saw it, the created beings knew better than the Creator.<\/p>\n

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(Excerpt Beyond Pretend: A Sheep\u2019s Guide to the Universe! \u00a9 2010 by David Lee Scott. All rights reserved, pp 27-28.) A lesson in ethical and moral decision-making as you try to personally answer the question – \u201cWhere am I?\u201d The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-hA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}