Re: [TruthTalk] New Subject--A&E

[Blainerb473]

In a message dated 12/5/2005 11:25:29 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:        I don't know if it surprises me.    But,  I do not think we have given enough attention to developing a thorough understanding of  their existence before and after the "fall."   It seems to me that the "fall" is more clearly taught in Church Tradition than exegetically.      But I am guilty of my own criticism at this point !   Blainerb:  I think your statement above is good--there is more we do not know about the fall than we do know. There are several questions that come up in my mind-- for one thing, why was the tree that bore the fruit associated with their (A&E) sin called the Tree of  Knowledge of Good and Evil?    And for another, Why would God forbid them to partake of the fruit of that tree?