Featured The knowledge of good and evil.

To paraphrase it, The Chalcedon Creed says Jesus is body, soul, and Spirit of God (being the Trinity). In contrast, we according to Paul are body, soul, and the human spirit.

 

I believe the key to understanding is to ask the question/questions.

And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves. Gen 2:25

At that, very moment in time, was the devil already Satan the adversary, had the the devil who was a sinner from the beginning, (see 1 John 3;8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil,-) already been doing works which needed to be destroyed?

If the answer is yes, and I believe it is, then what needed to come to pass? What had God already foreordained to take place? How exactly was God going to destroy the devil and his works? Exactly how was the woman going to be the help meet for the man? Exactly how and through whom was the Son of God going to be manifested?

I believe the following is relative but am not exactly sure how relative.

for Adam was first formed, then Eve, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came, and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety. 1 Tim 2:13-15 YLT
So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, 'I have not done iniquity.' Prov 30:20 YLT
because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin; Rom 5:12 YLT

 

What does it mean, to know good and evil?

We are what we eat. Why did God not want man, to eat of the knowledge?

Is to have knowledge of good and evil, to have free will to determine what is good and what is evil?


And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves. Gen 2:25

At that, very moment in time, was the devil already Satan the adversary, had the the devil who was a sinner from the beginning, (see 1 John 3;8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil,-) already been doing works which needed to be destroyed?

what needed to come to pass? What had God already foreordained to take place? How exactly was God going to destroy the devil and his works? Exactly how was the woman going to be the help meet for the man? Exactly how and through whom was the Son of God going to be manifested?

What did all that transpired have to do with the devil, Satan?

 

I agree. Gen 1:27 And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. V 31 And God seeth all that He hath done, and lo, very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day the sixth.

From whence, of what, did he create man?
And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature. Gen 2:7
for the soul of the flesh is (Is it the breath of life (above) that is in the blood that makes of flesh, living soul?) in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul. Lev 17:11 Darby
for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh, Rom 8:3
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. Rom 7:14 ESV

In what manner did he create, make man?
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Was that very first man, before he brought sin into the world (kosmos) and death through sin flesh and blood? Would he even then need to be changed before he could inherit the kingdom of God?

Why, why did God create the man that way?