I Started a Fight (con't.)

Episode 3: Things Get Twisted

(You may want to read Episode 1 and Episode 2 first.)

Yes, I know. Cliffhangers aren’t fun, but they are good for us. Waiting produce endurance, and endurance produces character. Buck up, dear reader, this is good for the constitution.

Now where were we? Ah yes. I was sitting in a Bible study and had just responded to the question, “Why would God have put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden?” I replied, if you remember, that God planned from the beginning for humankind to fall, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was put in place as one of the means of the fall.

There was gasping, I think, and the teacher responded to me. His words, I remember perfectly. “That,” he said, “is twisted theology.”

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I Started a Fight (con't.)

Episode 2: The Answer

(Episode 1 is here.)

When we left this true life adventure, I was minding my own business, sitting with my sister in a Bible study in church in Minnesota. I had just been asked this question: Why would God have put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden?

I thought about passing this hot potato on like another student had already done. I knew that not everyone would agree with my answer. But I do think about these things. And I can’t resist a good discussion, so I replied.

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My Desktop Photo 51: Outside Atlin

Photo by Andrew Stark
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This one was taken on a recent trip to Atlin, British Columbia.