Genesis Lecture 62 (The reason why God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil)
Bible passage: Genesis 2:15-17
[15] Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. [16] The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; [17] but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. This is the 62nd Lecture on Genesis.
In tonight's scripture, God is giving an order to Adam, saying "From the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." However, God the Father foreknew that Adam would eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God loved Adam, but then why did He put the tree, which can cause people who eat from it to die, in the Garden of Eden, and then give Adam an order not to eat from it? I will tell you why God placed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. Simply speaking, God did it to give true happiness to Adam.
It was also a deep providence of God to acquire true children through human cultivation. Let me explain what it means now. There are many fruit trees in the Garden of Eden. There is a vast variety of fruit and they are all different in sizes and colors. In the center of the Garden of Eden, there are two unique fruit trees. They are the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Fruit from these 2 trees are surely different from each other in shapes and colors. First, the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is somewhat similar to a peach of this earth; it has a color of pink. And the fruit from the tree of life is similar to an apple with the color of red. But it is not completely red; it has a beautiful color with a little of reddish color. The fruits of the Garden of Eden taste so much better than the fruit of this earth. Adam could freely eat them as much as he wanted. Except one fruit; the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil Why? It's because God commanded him not to eat from it.
