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Originally Posted by Freedom
So when the serpent came to tempt Eve, it wasn't really a dilemma of "two trees." It was choosing whether or not to obey God. That was the issue. What the Tree of Knowledge actually represented is mostly irrelevant in this context, because God never told Adam why he shouldn't eat of it. He just said don't do it. Of course, we understand why God didn't want them to eat it, but that isn't as important as the fact that He said don't do it.
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That's right.
Some have made a point of saying that Eve never directly heard God's command not to eat the tree of knowledge, but only Adam did, and he subsequently relayed that instruction to his wife. Perhaps then the serpent in the garden was questioning Adam as much as God. Either way, the NT says Eve was deceived, (II Cor 11.3; I Tim 2.14) but Adam transgressed thru his disobedience, calling it also the "offense," and thus sin entered the world and death reigned. (Rom 5.12-21)
What troubles me most about Lee's teachings on the tree of life is how they morphed into an occasion for sin. The prominent saying became, "
we don't care for right or wrong, we only care for life." Thus the license from Lee himself was provided to facilitate unrighteousness. This btw was the favorite saying of Lee's own profligate son Philip, who ran the LSM under the code name of the "Office."
There seems to be a whole lot of sad LC history which brother
Evangelical is not familiar with.