Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
And the serpent said unto the woman,
"Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall
be as [like] gods, knowing good and evil."
In effect Satan's advise was, "How do you know what is right and wrong, good and evil unless
you experience it yourself?. Try it."
God had instructed her and Adam not to do it, because God knows that being newly created,
they are in no position to determine on their own what is right and what is wrong. They had to
draw knowledge and understanding from the one who created them – their Father – to
correctly know what is good for them. God was simply telling his son Adam not to make
decisions on right and wrong, good and evil until he has grown enough to make those. "Until
then just trust me" "First eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life and then someday when you are
eighteen years old, I will let you eat of the Tree of the Fruit of the knowledge of good and evil."
That is why that tree was in the center of the garden. It is temporarily out of bounds because
taken without the necessary responsibility it brings total disaster.
There is more to this because the question is:
What is good and evil?
Is there anything called absolute good and absolute evil? If it does these standards are
applicable to God also. They are above God. There must be something beyond God who
makes the standard.
The Christian answer is that good and evil are based on the character of God. God is the
standard.
Hence what God told Adam was, you cannot distinguish between right and wrong, good and
evil unless you have my mind. “Until that time just trust me”. In contrast what the serpent
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