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Originally Posted by Ohio
Great points here, Trapped.
This is so incredibly different from what Lee taught in the Genesis Life Study, and which laid a foundation for so many of his other teachings.
Lee taught that the TOKOGAE was inherently evil, and hence dangerous to eat, forever injecting Satan himself into the flesh of all mankind. Lee also downplayed the actual act of disobedience committed by Adam, which is emphasized by Paul in Romans.
Lee loved to use the example of a child raiding the medicine cabinet. Sure the child was told to stay out of the medicine, but the parent cared little about the act of disobediance, rather was concerned about the child being poisoned.
But where is that in the scripture? So after learning Lee's teachings here, then when we actually read the scripture, our concept is skewed out of place. The facts of the story then must fit our preconceptions, courtesy of Lee.
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Yes, once you start putting your eyes on Lee's proclamations about this story in Genesis, it becomes pretty shocking pretty quickly 1) just how deviated from scripture his "interpreted word" on this one was, and 2) just how many dark, twisted, controlling, oppressive teachings sprung from his manhandling of this one story. In my view, as I think I said earlier, the teachings that come from this one story are some of the most insidious forms of leaven that is spread through the local churches as a whole.
Something did happen within us. We sinned, and now sin is in us. But it didn't come from the tree. It came due to the disobedience, the offense, which, as you said, Lee merrily skipped over as a lesser emphasis.
Isn't it amazing? Lee skips over the whole point - sin entered due to disobedience - and instead spits out the dead opposite lesson: God doesn't CARE about right and wrong!
And the ever-confounding head-scratching question that aron so used to love to ask: why on earth didn't any of the thousands of listeners ever clear their throat to point to what so clearly doesn't make sense, and disagree with the one teaching it!?