Re: tsunami impact on animals

There's still a problem. The scripture restricts the serpent's promise to knowing good and evil, which is neither logic nor all knowledge. If I take you seriously, then almost all those who participate here are notoriously wicked for using their minds to advance knowledge...
Dave

"Since Adam sinned the world has been governed not by the Tree of Life (as it properly should be) but by the Tree of Knowledge. The Tree of Life is entirely and exclusively holy, with no admixture of evil, no adulteration or impurity or death or limitation. The Tree of Knowledge on the other hand, contains both good and evil, purity and impurity, virtue and vice, and therefore under its rule things are forbidden, and things permitted, things fit for consumption and things unfit, the clean and the unclean. In an unredeemed world the Torah is revealed in positive and negative commandments and all that these imply, but in the redeemed future uncleanliness and unfitness and death will be abolished."

These words from Gershom Scholem on the Zohar indicate that learning is required to properly navigate what is clean and unclean since decisions must be made. Notice that in a world governed by the Tree of Life there is no dichotomy, no clean and unclean, no decisions need be made. Life is lived intuitively like it was before the fall. Knowing good and evil is all that is required. To know that one must learn the Law until the Law is lived intuitively, written on one's heart. If the Law is written on my heart and lived intuitively, I am doing God's will and am governed by the Tree of Life. I think the message is that one must strive to learn the Law so that learning is not evil in and of itself but the way back to the Tree of Life for beings that no longer behave instinctively.
The Law was written on Jesus' heart. I think learning is what genesis is advocating.
rich
Received on Tue Jan 11 17:57:24 2005