wellwisher
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The tree of knowledge of good and evil is symbolic of law. Law teaches us how to consciously distinguish between good and bad behavior. In paradise, humans were under natural instinct and were able to act on natural impulse without the need to have the conscious value judgments. God by setting the taboo require they become conscious. God hoped conscious awareness would choose natural instinct but instead it chose laws of man.
The main problem with law is, unlike instinct, it does not apply to all, nor is it always objective. Law was not made for the righteous man, but for the criminal. Yet the righteous man is forced to obey the law. For example the law of PC is connected to the neurotic of culture, yet forced on even the healthy. This is a bad recipe. After the peer pressure of law, the healthy become less healthy. Original sin is inherent in law in the sense that even the sinless are force to obey the law, as though they have innate sin. Even if you never broke the speed limit and never intend to, you still are under law of speed limits, as thou this capacity to sin is within you; original sin.
As an analogy to answer the question of this topic, say you found a puppy or cub of a wild animal. You try to teach it the laws/rules needed; knowledge of good and evil, so it can get along in civilized society, so you can have it as a pet. This training may require a combination of carrot and club. If you are successful, that animal will become dependent on you, since it has lost its instincts to survive. If you were forced by culture to let it go in the wild, it may not be able to survive. It is now broken and no longer capable of living in the paradise of nature.
Law was useful for developing willpower and choice. It was an important tool for starting civilization. However, the cost of human domestication, was the lost of natural human instinct, Natural human instinct; one set of God's laws, was designed to allow survival and integration with nature. This was lost due to eating of the forbidden fruit; law and dependency. War and other destructive yet needed technology appear, since all the dependents human animals, due to the law, over populated and needed to be taken care of, in ways that were not natural or integrated with nature; war and global warming.
The main problem with law is, unlike instinct, it does not apply to all, nor is it always objective. Law was not made for the righteous man, but for the criminal. Yet the righteous man is forced to obey the law. For example the law of PC is connected to the neurotic of culture, yet forced on even the healthy. This is a bad recipe. After the peer pressure of law, the healthy become less healthy. Original sin is inherent in law in the sense that even the sinless are force to obey the law, as though they have innate sin. Even if you never broke the speed limit and never intend to, you still are under law of speed limits, as thou this capacity to sin is within you; original sin.
As an analogy to answer the question of this topic, say you found a puppy or cub of a wild animal. You try to teach it the laws/rules needed; knowledge of good and evil, so it can get along in civilized society, so you can have it as a pet. This training may require a combination of carrot and club. If you are successful, that animal will become dependent on you, since it has lost its instincts to survive. If you were forced by culture to let it go in the wild, it may not be able to survive. It is now broken and no longer capable of living in the paradise of nature.
Law was useful for developing willpower and choice. It was an important tool for starting civilization. However, the cost of human domestication, was the lost of natural human instinct, Natural human instinct; one set of God's laws, was designed to allow survival and integration with nature. This was lost due to eating of the forbidden fruit; law and dependency. War and other destructive yet needed technology appear, since all the dependents human animals, due to the law, over populated and needed to be taken care of, in ways that were not natural or integrated with nature; war and global warming.