A Fruit for the Root of All Family Problems
- The Chinese Angle: Discerning vs. Defining
- Chinese Union Version (CUV)
- CUV edition, "the tee of the knowledge of good and eveil was translated to "the Tree" in Chinese means to discern good from evil, and means to define good from evil
- Chinese Union Version (CUV)
- The English/Hebrew Angle: Hebrew cultural background
- The Inverse Angle: what if not-knowing is actually Good?
- Then, how did they eat it?
- The world's first recorded Satan's word is a question. "Did God really say..."
- Now let's look at what happens after they eat this fruit
- (Genesis 3:8) Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
- This act fractures the relationship - not in one way, but in fourfold:
- It broke the relationship between humanity and God, they went hiding
- It broke the relationship between human and human, they started the blame-shifting
- It broke the relastion ship between humanity and nature, there is toil and struggle
- It broke the relationship between aperson and their on self, they have guilt and shame
Okay, that's a short version of the story of "a fruit for the root of all family problems"
The first adam stood in a garden called Eden, under the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He knew God's will: "do not eat the fruit." But he wanted to be "like God." So he decided, "not Your will, mine be done."
Then Jesus stood in a garden called Gethsemane, the scripture calls Him the Last Adam, He was also beneath a “tree,” because the cross itself, that instrument of death, the scripture calls it “a tree.” Jesus, being in very nature God, made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. So He decided, “not my will, Yours be done.”
Amazing Grace, where the first Adam hid from God after his failure, the Last Adam walked toward the cross, toward the darkness, toward death — for us.