Knowledge Knowledge before Good and Evil

Knowledge 

Knowledge before Good and Evil

Now Adam and Eve had knowledge before they ate of the Tree of Knowledge

Their source of knowledge was God

The things they learned and the joy of discovery had to be amazing

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning.

When you came into this world

how much knowledge did you have?

All of us come into this world

with an empty knowledge tank.

If you are reading this you have gained

some knowledge since you were born.

Certain things in life you have become familiar with

that have become facts, information and descriptions.

Your world is as large as your knowledge.

Our experiences and education are the process to learning.

When I was a boy in school,

I lived in fear of not knowing.

I hated tests because they would

show what I did not know.

I was afraid of being a dummy.

I though everyone else was smarter than I was.

I didn’t know knowledge was a process for all of us.

Later in life I realized being humble and asking questions

was far more profitable than pretending I was a know-it-all.

When I discovered how much freedom knowledge

gave me I realized I loved to learn.

Whether my knowledge came from an answer to a simple

question or the school of hard knocks I have learned to love it.

Because knowledge is wonderful.

Knowledge was a key issue in the very beginning

when God created the heavens and the earth.

Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.  And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground —

 trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food.

In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  

Genesis 2:8-9 NIV

In the very center of the Garden was the Tree of Knowledge.

The tree is described with 2 characteristics…

Good and Evil

Everything God created in the garden was

good including the Tree of Knowledge.

There were all kinds of trees God created that

were pleasing to the eye and good for food.

But only one tree God commanded not to eat its fruits.

Now Adam and Eve had knowledge before

they ate of the Tree of Knowledge.

Their source of knowledge was God.

The things they learned and the joy

of discovery had to be amazing.

There was purity in everything around them so

everything they looked at was with pure thoughts.

When Adam and Eve took of the forbidden

fruit everything changed forever.

 

The source of knowledge from that tree made them afraid. 

It brought on guilt and shame.

Their desire to become like God to receive council

from another source than God changed everything.

Ultimately the source of knowledge from

the Tree of Knowledge brings death.

So there is a way that seems right to a

man but in the end it brings destruction.

Because knowledge is both good and evil God gives

us a lot of instruction about knowledge in His Word.

Because knowledge is so important we should

give attention to what God has to say about it.

 

Scripture Reading NIV

Genesis 2:8-9

8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Proverbs 14:12

2 There is a way that seems right to a man,

but in the end it leads to death.