Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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good and evil. This means that Adam and Eve were not to experiment with evil to see what it was tike. They were not to gain their knowledge of evil by participation therein, but by the revelation of God, even as the unfallen angels know the difference between good and evil, We do not know what kind of fruit that tree bore, but simply that it was good for food —undoubtedly just as good as that ;of any other tree in the garden. There is no question of the fruit here; the question has to do with the eating—eating in disobedience to God ' s command. They did not eat because of necessity, for they were surrounded by fruit of many trees and herbs of the field—of all of which they might freely eat. They were not like the Lord when He was forty days and forty nights in the wilderness with¬ out food. In the midst of abundance, when there was no unsatisfied hunger and absolutely no necessity for partaking of that particular fruit, they deliber¬ ately disobeyed God—and thus sin came into the world. Man fell from his pristine glory and became the father of fallen beings, for a fallen father cannot beget other than fallen sons. Thus by one man ' s disobedience many were made sinners (Romans 5:19). Thus a tree which God had created for blessing, for shelter, and. for food for man became a diabolical thing, a thing of sin and a curse. Similarly, the Creator (for the Bible tells us that the Lord Jesus was God manifest in the