(Gen 2:17 KJV) 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.
As a child, I distinctly remember my mother encouraging me to eat the brussel sprouts on my dinner plate with the words “they’re good for you”… I can also remember thinking, “how can something that tastes so bad be good for me?”
In obedience (faith and trust), I ate, swallowing my pride and my judgment.
In retrospect, I realise that my mother was just regurgitating the folk law of the day and encouraging me to eat what was in front of me, because once I started to listen to my tongue and not to her mouth, then dinner times would have become one endless battle and her life would have become hell. So, how do we judge good from evil?
Is it with our eyes, our ears, our tongue, our nose our touch or what we have learned?
(Gen 3:4-5 KJV) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Trusting our memories of relative knowledge allows us to pass judgment on one another and manipulate creation. It breaks faith (unity) and initiates a war of relative good and evil.
Since human beings ‘do not’ and ‘can not’ create life, what right do we have to judge and manipulate the handiwork of God and to what end - good or evil?
Is an “eagle” good or evil? Is a “virus” good or evil? Are “you” good or evil?
This deceptive ‘god-like’ nature of humanity is the greatest evil on the planet, for it denies God as one, it fails to align with life, it corrupts absolute truth with relativity and history bears testimony to the suffering caused by ‘ignorant’ men, “Lording” as gods.
I have witnessed many kinds of ‘evil’ on this earth and most are imposed directly or indirectly by the human will in the name of ‘good’…. either: physically, mentally or emotionally.
Men of ‘might’ would rape and pillage our lands and our bodies; Men of ‘knowledge’ would rape and pillage our minds; Men and women of ‘gentleness’ would rape and pillage our emotions.
Yet, there is still a greater ‘evil’, that which would rape and pillage our ‘spirit’, undermining our identity and damaging our relationship with God.
What ‘good’ is a bee that fails to pollinate flowers and make honey?
Alignment (obedience) to the ‘Will of God’ is the only true measure of ‘good’. Whatever misaligns us from our God given nature is ‘evil’, regardless of the numbers in agreement in the house of Lords, the United Nations or in democratic and religious masses.
(Mark 10:17-18 KJV) And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
GOOD V EVIL