Bible Correction: Genesis 2 and 3 as they relate to John 3:14
After I realized that Victor N. Alexander's translation of the ancient Aramaic (i.e., the original) version of Genesis had only one tree talked about--the tree of life, which was also the tree of the knowledge of good and evil--I asked Victor about it. His response was, "It has to be one tree."
It appears that eating of the tree of life gives one the knowledge of good and evil, which, if the person is not prepared, brings death.
I associate the thrust of the story in Genesis 2 and 3 with how Alexander translates John 3:14 and 15: "And just as Moses lifted the darkness by the light of life, this is how you should glorify* (lift up) the Son of Man. So that every human [being] who believes in him does not [go to] oblivion, except that they may have life everlasting* (to [the end of] the universe)." Moses lifted the darkness/death upon men by preaching the rightness of the Miltha by teaching the Law of God. In like manner we are to lift the darkness by preaching the rightness of the Miltha by teaching the Law of Christ. He is God's grace, our Savior, the Manifestation of the Ineffable--the tree of life.
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