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Originally Posted by Nell
Of course, all of your quotes are verses from the Bible. ...
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..........okay. I'll answer my own question.
The true part is that their eyes would be opened, and that they would be like God, knowing good and evil. That part was the truth. The Bible says, as you know, that their eyes were opened. And God Himself said "they have become like one of us, knowing good and evil." So we have direct biblical confirmation that that part of what the serpent said was true. It doesn't become less true if it is said by a serpent.
But the serpent/Satan mixed truth with lies. The lie he told was that they would not surely die. That was the lie. That was the deception. God was true to his word and punished them with death for disobeying, and Satan tried to tell Eve that this would not happen.
As we know, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was part of the creation that God called "good". It is described as being "good for food". As has been discussed by many people in numerous places on this forum, the tree was not poisonous and was not the source of death. This is not an evil tree; it was just off-limits. Additionally, as I have said a couple times now, Hebrews 5:14 states explicitly that mature believers are those who distinguish good from evil. This has to be the case if believers are to judge situations in the church, if believers are to discern properly to put sexually immoral ones out of the church, if elders are to be impartial in deciding courses of action concering disputes, etc...
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
So once again, biblically, I simply do not see that "being like God, knowing good and evil" is some terrible sinful (or....cringeworthy) thing, and I'm surprised that I'm getting pushback on this, given my clear explanation.
Jesus is the image of the invisible God. When we see Him, we see the Father. And we are being conformed to His image. Thus, logically, the appropriate course of our Christian life is indeed to become more like God. It's pretty confusing to hear this position being called cringeworthy.
Becoming like God is different than "becoming God" in any way, whether qualified or unqualified. I'm not supporting Witness Lee's ridiculous doctrine in the slightest. But this feels like a baby/bathwater situation.
It's evil and rebellious to be like God or to want to be like God? I mean, God is good, righteous, loving, comforting, etc, etc...... You mean I should NOT want to be any of those things? This makes no sense. It's like I'm getting pushback just for the sake of pushback.
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