The Dichotomy of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
 

"You must be born again of God's Spirit", is the absolute axiom for man to enter into eternal Life within God.  The soul of man that was dead because of sin, must be given new Life by the Only God that creates Life.  It is essential that Christian leadership establish this faithful understanding in all the churches, and that the hearts of God's people know it is fulfilled, only in a faith that is following Jesus Christ and none other.  But even if God's Salvation into new birth is understood in the Christian heart, then why is sin still mysteriously present within our being?  Oh, you can be in a state of denial, and say that it is impossible for sin to exist in one that is born again.  But the conundrum is that the flesh of our being, is not born again of the Spirit of God, but has its own will that is at enmity with Holy God and the Spirit of His Good Will.  The flesh, of even the redeemed, has not forgotten what manner of man we are, and will seek its own base level.  Now, if sin finds you out, as it will, then what do you do with your sin when you begin to see your-'self' wallowing in its gratifying pollution?  When found out, sin will always seek to cover its naked self with self justifying responses that divert any responsibility from our offending flesh.  With sin being in control of our self justifying flesh, we are tossed about and lost in the confusion.  Oh, the good that I would do, but for the evil that is present!

This old body of the natural man we live with, is a dichotomy of the good and the evil of self determining gratification.  Self gratification is rooted as one with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that is founded in the Garden of Eden.  The Creator of Life warned Adam of the deadly consequences of eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Apart from the leading of God's Spirit, individually or collectively, we are not capable of overcoming the evil root embedded within our minds of self-idolatry that brings forth death and destruction.  Even the good we attribute to ourselves, is centered in self judgment that is twisted with deceptions from the very same root of the tree that forms evil.  Very simply, that root is one and the same perverted root, whether for good or for evil, and the core of the root is confusion.  That one root comes from the same old Tree of Knowledge of self determination of what is good or evil, being judged from ones own Idolatrous self centered perspective.  Even in the flesh of Christianity, your good is not necessarily my good, and your understanding of evil is not necessarily my understanding of evil.  Hence the inevitable human judgmental consequences: If I do not believe in what you believe is correct, then I am anathematized.

Through out the centuries, the leaders of the churches have a history of being complicit with either the 'good' or the 'evil' derived from the tap root of the Tree of Knowledge.  In hindsite, we have witnessed the mixture of good and evil that the historical churches would judge to do for the sake of church doctrine based on their biblical interpretations of even of the WORD of GOD.   The churches' declared doctrines were inevitably clarified with violence, even perpetrated in the Name of God.  Is this not the human rational, "Let us do evil that good would come of it"?  Holy blunder: The end does not justify the means!

With sin in the universe, evil perpetuates its rebellious self by justifying its unrighteous actions.  It makes no difference whether it is Catholic or Protestant judgment.  All segments of Christianity are exceedingly guilty.  Historical Catholic Europe is guilty, but right in its own eyes with its religious witch hunts, conquests for land, inquisitions with suppression of ethnic groups including genocide, infanticide, murder, broken treaties with blood shed, and the merchandising of Christianity.  From its beginning origin in Europe and coming to America, Protestantism is guilty, but right in its own eyes with its conquests for land, genocide, religious witch hunts, the Civil War with suppression of ethnic groups, infanticide, murder, broken treaties with blood shed and the merchandising of Christianity.  We are all right and justified within our own religious myopic eyes, but not in the Eyes of the One Holy Infinite GOD Almighty.  I counsel thee to buy of Me, gold tried in the fire that thou may be rich; and buy of Me, white raiment that thou may be clothed, so that the shame of thy nakedness does not appear; and anoint thy eyes with eye salve that thou may see. ^{(Revelation 3 verse 18.)}

This root judgment of the flesh, born from the Tree of Knowledge, blinds all of us with its confusion, and obviously is still rampant within all churches, beginning with the clerics, and ending with the people of the pews.  Because of our individual sins, and the generational sin's of the churches, then for a surety we all have great need for repentance.  Now with true godly repentance, we need to seek the application of God's Spirit of mitigating Grace IN the New Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ.   It is through the Almighty's Comforting Spirit of Holiness, that we might receive needed humbling correction, and then afterwards be clothed in the unity of the Almighty's Love.  For, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.  ^{(Revelation 3 verse 19.)}   

Make no mistake on this matter: It is written in Paul's epistle, and I have heard it myself as a rebuke coming from the Spirit of the Lord saying; "No flesh shall glory in My Presence". ^{(1st Corinthians 1 verse 29).} The True Worship of Yahweh God the Father, only begins at His Altar Table, with His Word Sanctified Provisions IN the Flesh, and the sanctifying Blood of God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ.  The nakedness of our wanton flesh can only be clothed in God's Love through His Holy Spirit of Grace that is One with the Blood, that enables His people to enter into the Presence of God's Holiness IN Spirit and Truth.  If we are led by God's Spirit, and when we faithfully drink in of the Lord Jesus' Blood, that is to say His Holy Life of sacrificial love for mankind, then we are renewing in our mind God's Covenant Agreement, which we have with Holy, Holy, Holy God.  For Yahweh was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Yeshuah, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His Blood, shed on the cross. ^{(Colossians 1 verse 19 thru 20).} Our concurring agreement with God's Blood Covenant, is that we are participating in mutual fellowship, with the Lord's sacrifice and death for our nature of sin in unredeemed flesh, and we now live in faith and hope with IN His Perfect Love, by the power of God's Holy Spirit of Grace and TRUTH.   The Grace of Holy God reveals a new Life of sacrifice, bearing fruit in Jesus Christ.  Indeed, it is the Love of our God that constrains us: For it is the righteous Life giving Blood of Jesus Christ that is the mortal antagonist, to the destructive will of sin in the flesh of His believers.  If faith is alive, and not dead in unbelief, then sin will not flourish within the Perfect Love that God gives in the atoning Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ.