Their eyes were opened to satan's perception of good and evil, but closed to God so they could think of themselves as gods.
We are never told what the good and evil actually represent. It doesn’t make any sense for satan to be associated with "good". It means his good is not the same good of God. Worthless "good" intentions because God is not involved.
The road to hell is paved in "good" intentions.
nature, nationalism, money, and pride have worthless "good" intentions from the tree of knowledge.
The tree of knowledge gets burned up so it's best to stop using it now before it is too late.
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the good and evil represents the eternal conflict of light and dark in the beginning everything was dark , and then God spoke and the light began to shine out of darkness and only the light was deemed good because it came from the word of God
the light which is deemed good was then seperated from the darkness
then man was made in the image of God being very good and not evil already in Gods image not considering both good and evil but they were good filled with good knowledge the gospel was mans nature the light
The knowledge of good and evil is a comparison between listening to Gods wisdom his word “ you are free to eat of any tree but this one fruit is forbidden you Must not partake of you will die “
and the knowledge of Satan who seeks not for us to live like Gods commandment there will cause if it’s obeyed , but he wants man to be cursed and die by Gods commandment
so he gives them the conflicting knowledge to what God had given them “ the fruit is a matter of life and death because God said so he creates what he said “
so if they ever then eat the fruit they are going to certainly die. Satan knew this is true so his one goal became “ I need to make them freely transgress and eat the fruit , then they will die
“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17
The enemies sight told him this
“for in the day that they eatest thereof they shalt surely die.”
so he had to convince them that Gods word wasn’t true and didn’t apply to them his word was better for them than Gods ( good and evil ) knowledge comes from words .....man is designed to operate by word and thought and communication unlike any species
Satan spoke the knowledge of temptation into their minds like a baited hook and they took the bait line and sinker being naive of good and evil
Satan told them “no you won’t die at all you will be as gods “ they then partook of the knowledge of evil when they accepted the serpents word that’s what led them To the act of transgression .
that’s actually what Jesus teaches us to overcome sin that sin is operating within our thinking and desires from within us in our heart by the knowledge we partake of in the world whether good or evil
God put them in Eden , they transgressed ( because of satans deception )and then he drove then out so they could not eat of the tree of life and live forever because now they were conflicted between good and evil they would be transgressors each time the evil won out thier nature was corrupted
so when God creates us before transgression
“And
God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
Genesis 1:31 KJV
and just ten generations after they followed satans word this was true of mans nature and the effect of man in creation is seen
“And God saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And
the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;
for it repenteth me that I have made them.
And God looked upon the earth, and,
behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for
the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”
Genesis 6:5-7, 12-13
Our nature was corrupted from good , to good v evil war inside of us access from God , and also access from Satan
man wasn’t supposed to have this law in us ot came from the forbidden knowledge
“I find then
a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
But I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”
Romans 7:21, 23 KJV
We are supposed to have the gospel as our knowledge and nature not the conflict Satan introduced to us
