tree of knowledge – The Naked Prophet

March 2, 2022

The LORD God planted a garden

Sunlight filtering throught leave of a knarled tree in the fall

Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed. He made all kinds of beautiful trees grow there and produce good fruit. In the middle of the garden stood the tree that gives life and the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad.
(Genesis 2:8-9) Good News Translation

Genesis 2:8-9 is topical, not chronological. God planted a garden on the third day, and man was created on the sixth day. Since the garden was made for the man, then that’s how it’s described.

January 2, 2021January 2, 2021

Deductive Questioning

But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.
(1 Samuel 13:14) ESV

Deductive reasoning is a way to use logic to deduce the answers to questions, but it’s also used to deduce which questions we should be asking. We use a technique which we call deductive questioning.

December 17, 2020March 11, 2022

The Tree of Knowledge

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.
(Genesis 2:17) KJV

Creation was corrupted before Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden. It was created in a corrupted state in order to manifest free will. We can prove it using a process we call deductive questioning.

September 17, 2020May 2, 2022

Creation and Evolution

By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
(Hebrews 11:3) NKJV

The plan for WHY? is a year-long daily devotional in which divine creation and it’s entropic decay pivot on the fall of man, the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.

June 7, 2020June 27, 2022

God Can’t Lie

Planet earth on the second day as concentric layers of sediment around a gravitational singularity

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
(Titus 1:2) KJV

What are the logical implications of “God can’t lie?” Total destruction of the mainstream science paradigm (SciPop). Figuratively speaking we’re going to do to SciPop what Samson did in Lehi with the donkey’s jawbone.

July 6, 2019December 17, 2020

Genesis 2:17, 3:4

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.
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
(Genesis 2:17, 3:4)

When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil they didn’t immediately drop dead. Does this mean that there’s a contradiction in the Bible?