Negative Speaking

Trapped · 08-25-2020, 05:17 PM

This "don't spread death", by the way, is directly from Lee's just plain bad interpretation of the two trees in the garden of Eden, geared off of "we don't care about right and wrong."

Lee said "right and wrong are on the wrong tree" and he called that tree "the tree of death". The problem is, it isn't the tree of death. It's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It sounds catchy to call it the tree of death, because the other one was the tree of life, but that's simply not what the verses say, at all. If it was the tree of death, then God would have called it what it is, like the honorable God He is. But Lee added to scripture, as he was wont to do, and he taught that death came FROM the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, when the verses plainly show that death came because God separated them from their access to the tree of life (the thing that would allow them to live forever) and drove them out of the garden.

So since the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is NOT the tree of death or the source of death, we can unhook "death" from "good and evil, right and wrong", and voila! The co-workers' fearmongering of death against anyone who speaks up about "right and wrong" becomes visible for what it is: a totally empty windbag full of a whole lot of stinking hot air.

And what we end up with is a situation where a bunch of "blended brothers", in a position of what they think is power, are abusing the Word of God (and abusing God's children in the process) to cover darkness.

08-25-2020, 05:17 PM	#5
Trapped Member Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 1,523	Re: Negative speaking This "don't spread death", by the way, is directly from Lee's just plain bad interpretation of the two trees in the garden of Eden, geared off of "we don't care about right and wrong." Lee said "right and wrong are on the wrong tree" and he called that tree "the tree of death". The problem is, it isn't the tree of death. It's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It sounds catchy to call it the tree of death, because the other one was the tree of life, but that's simply not what the verses say, at all. If it was the tree of death, then God would have called it what it is, like the honorable God He is. But Lee added to scripture, as he was wont to do, and he taught that death came FROM the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, when the verses plainly show that death came because God separated them from their access to the tree of life (the thing that would allow them to live forever) and drove them out of the garden. So since the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is NOT the tree of death or the source of death, we can unhook "death" from "good and evil, right and wrong", and voila! The co-workers' fearmongering of death against anyone who speaks up about "right and wrong" becomes visible for what it is: a totally empty windbag full of a whole lot of stinking hot air. And what we end up with is a situation where a bunch of "blended brothers", in a position of what they think is power, are abusing the Word of God (and abusing God's children in the process) to cover darkness.