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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
I believe eating the fruit was toxic. I agree with Witness Lee that the disobedience of eating was not the real issue, it was the ingesting of the fruit itself that brought in death..
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Here’s my take:
God commanded man not to eat of The TOKGE. I don’t think there was anything special about this tree, apart from it being the one God commanded man not to eat.
The serpent then convinces Eve that if she eats it, she will be like God. The thing is, man was made in the image of God. They are already like God. In fact god commanded them to exercise authority over all the beasts of the field, which includes the very serpent speaking to her. Side note in the Hebrew, the serpent doesn’t even refer to God as Yahweh, which should have caused Eve’s authority to kick in.
By obeying the serpent, they betray all God had commanded and gave them (image and dominion). This event isn’t just some act of disobedience, it’s an act of treachery.
Man committed treason, they betrayed God. I personally don’t think it was the content of the fruit they ate, but the content of their heart that drove their actions.