The knowledge of good and evil, and salvation

The knowledge of good and evil, and salvation.

Jesus Christ came to “destroy the works of the devil”, which began when Adam and Eve acquired the Knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden. The Bible reveals that mankind is not equipped to righteously interpret the knowledge of good and evil. Before the flood the Bible states that mankind was “evil continually” exposing mankind’s inability to decipher the knowledge of good and evil righteously in God’s eyes.

Logically, a person’s knowledge of good and evil equates to their behavior, and God intended to teach Adam and Eve his knowledge which can always be trusted and true, but Satan got in the way. So, God sent the law to reveal all mankind as sinners. Then he sent his son Jesus Christ, but he was rejected, crucified, resurrected, and ascended for all of the sins of mankind. To me, at the crucifixion, the Cross of Christ symbolizes the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and was the act of Jesus Christ putting mankind’s knowledge of good and evil and all its effects behind himself and gone. So, Jesus Christ then charged the apostle Paul to bring forth salvation through the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ.

Without the law people would never have known they were sinners because each person’s version of the knowledge of good and evil makes correct decisions to them. Each person’s version of the knowledge of good and evil, which they think is perfect, is the work of the devil. When a person has faith in the gospel of grace, Paul’s gospel, the Holy Spirit, whose knowledge of good and evil is perfect enters them. As first Corinthians chapter 2 verses twelve and thirteen describe. “Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting Spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.”

This sounds like God reclaiming at least some influence over a person’s behavior, through his knowledge, similar to before Adam and Eve fell. Another thing that occurs when a person has faith in Paul’s gospel, the gospel of grace is they become a member of the “body of Christ”, as Colossians chapter three verse fifteen states, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body.” Of course, the mind and knowledge of Jesus Christ controls the “body of Christ.” Have a great day.
Genesis chapters 2,3,6

Exodus 19/5,6 “Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”

Isaiah 11/9 “They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”

Romans 3/20 “For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.”

Romans 8/5 “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit.”

Romans 8/16 “it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God”

Romans 10/9 “if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Romans 14/23 “whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.”

1Corinthians 2/16 ‘”For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”’

1Corinthians 12/8 “To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit”

1Corinthians 12/13 “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and all were made to drink of one Spirit.”

1Corinthians 12/27 “Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.”

1Corinthians chapter 15

2Corinthians 3/3 “and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”

Galatians chapter 1

Galatians 5/16,17 “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh”

Galatians 5/25 “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.”

Ephesians 1/13 “In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.”

Ephesians chapter 4

Titus 2/11 “For the grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all men, training us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions, and to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world”

Hebrews 2/14 “Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil”

2Peter chapter 3

1John 3/8 “He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”