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	Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When Eve, and then Adam, ate the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge (3:6), after being tempted by a serpent (3:1–5), they became aware of their nakedness (3:7), and were banished from the garden and forced to survive through agriculture "by the sweat of [their] face" (3:19-24).
		For capital offenses, the condemned was hung from a tree (Deuteronomy 21:22).
		A rather Freudian interpretation is that knowledge of good and evil, or simply good and bad, refers to the recollection of a memory with an implied judgment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tree_of_Knowledge_of_Good_and_Evil (1524 words)

	Tree of Life - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The expression "tree of life" occurs in four groups or connections: (1) in the story of the Garden of Eden, (2) in the Proverbs of the Wise Men, (3) in the apocryphal writings, and (4) in the Apocalypse of John.
		The tree was in the midst of the Garden, and its fruit of such a nature as to produce physical immortality (Genesis 2:9; 3:22).
		After guiltily partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the sinful tendency having thus been implanted in their natures, the man and woman are driven forth from the Garden lest they should eat of the tree of life and live forever (Genesis 3:22).
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T8899 (1409 words)

	Wikinfo \| Tree of Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the Bible's Book of Genesis, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was the tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden from which God forbade Adam and Eve to eat.
		When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit from the tree, after being tempted by a serpent, they became knowledgeable of their sin, and were punished by God for their disobedience by being banished from the garden and forced to survive through agriculture "by the sweat of [their] brow".
		According to a Christian legend, the Tree of Knowledge was the source of wood for the True Cross.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Tree_of_Knowledge (475 words)

	Tree of Knowledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A novel by Pío Baroja, "El árbol de la ciencia", translated as Tree of Knowledge (1974), Howard Fertig.
		Ramon Llull wrote the Tree of Science (1295).
		The traditional birthplace of the Australian Labor Party is a Ghost Gum in Barcaldine, Queensland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tree_of_knowledge (190 words)

	The Time of Corruption and the Nature of Sin: Chapter I - The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - Genesis, Bible, ...
		It is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and there is a vast difference between being evil and having the knowledge of something being evil or potentially evil.
		Some people refer to this tree as the "tree of knowledge", which is also a misnomer, for it doesn't give knowledge, but only knowledge of one thing, the difference between good and evil.
		The eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil gave us the insight into what would happen if we did choose to remove God's goodness, and thus began our experimenting with sin, which is the very tactic used by the serpent, as we will see in the next Chapter.
	www.all-creatures.org /book/book-corrupt-1.html (2285 words)

	Did Adam die on the day he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
		And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food...
		it's as good as dead as soon as it's severed from its source of life, the trunk, but the leaves will continue photosynthesizing for some time, so the actual dying process is protracted but inevitable.
	www.skepticsannotatedbible.com /contra/day.html (237 words)

	the bible = the tree of the knowledge of good and evil < - Page 6 - CWS Talk! - ChristianWebSite.com
		The knowledge of good and evil is poisoned.
		This tree of the knowledge of good and evil stands for Satan and the system he wished to use to deceive the first humans.
		They accept that Jesus is the tree of life, but in the same breath deny that Lucifer was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
	www.botcw.com /talk/showthread.php?p=91906 (3635 words)

	Betty Edmondson 02/23/2001 – TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL
		Betty Edmondson 02/23/2001 – TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL
		The Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil is a soul state of relativity that the first Adam began to identify himSELF with as he began to look on the world of form.
		He forgot that the entire tree that multiplied from seed to root, to trunk, to branches, to more seeds, to more trees, all still had the same LIFE that was breathed into him in the beginning.
	www.gospelassemblyfree.com /facts/tree.htm (2049 words)

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		If the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not a material fruit, then it must be a symbol which represents something else.
		Christians thus impatiently await the tree of life, which in the Book of Revelation symbolizes Christ at his Second Coming.11 The purpose of God's providence of salvation is to restore the failure to attain the tree of life in the Garden of Eden by realizing the tree of life mentioned in the Book of Revelation.
		The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, standing beside the tree of life,14 was this tree which, by fulfilling its good purpose, represents the ideal woman, perfected Eve.
	www.luckymojo.com /esoteric/religion/judaism/kabbalah/9612.treelif.smm (1257 words)

	The Tree Of Life
		And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
		In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
		Without the tree of knowledge of good and evil, Adam would never have seen his physical death coming as a result of not eating of the tree of life.
	www.kiva.net /~kls/tree.html (1653 words)

	Topical Guide: Tree
		5: 9) of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat.
		She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her.
		(Luke 3: 9; Alma 5: 52) axe is laid unto the root of the trees.
	scriptures.lds.org /tgt/tree (445 words)

	Literal and figurative trees of the Bible
		The Nebuchadnezzar Tree This King of Babylon is called a tree in the 4th chapter of Daniel; a "tree" that would have an axe taken to it and be cut down to a stump.
		The Dozen-Fruit Tree From the final chapter of Revelation, 22:2, this tree produces twelve kind of fruit every month "and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations".
		Like that other tree in the Garden of Eden, Gen3:24, it's also called 'the Tree of Life', and is found on both sides of the River of Life, so we know this is a symbolic tree instead of one that's tangible.
	www.cswnet.com /~duxrow/Trees.htm (1246 words)

	EdensTreeofKnowledgeLife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Primitive savage naked man would acquire knowledge of good and evil (right and wrong) "_later_" from the gods when he became their servant and was taught the "Arts of Civilization" including the LAW codes the gods used to regulate godly behavior among themselves.
		In one case the knowledge is sought by the god Enki inorder to decree the fruit's usefulness to man and the gods, in another case, the fruit of the trees gives the goddess Inanna sexual knowledge.
		The...-tree, the willow, the apple-tree, the box-tree, the
	www.bibleorigins.net /EdensTreeofKnowledgeLife.html (10351 words)

	The Knowledge of Good and Evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The knowledge man and woman gained by eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was the awareness of mortality.
		Pathological narcissism, paranoia, anality (understood as creatureliness), sadism, sociopathy are the psychopathologies that the mind uses to rationalize cruelty, evil justified as good or evil rationalized in preservation of the self.
		If evil is understood as the failure of naricissism to sustain the self, then goodness may be found in the transformations of narcissism: empathy, humor, creativity, art, and wisdom, especially in the appreciation of the finiteness of life.
	faculty.etsu.edu /dyer/lectures/Knowledge_of_Good_and_Evil/knowledge_of_good_and_evil.htm (6273 words)

	Education - The Knowledge of Good and Evil
		The knowledge of good had been freely given them; but the knowledge of evil,--of sin and its results, of wearing toil, of anxious care, of disappointment and grief, of pain and death,--this was in love withheld.
		It was distrust of God's goodness, disbelief of His word, and rejection of His authority, that made our first parents transgressors, and that brought into the world a knowledge of evil.
		The trees cast off their leaves, only to be robed with fresher verdure; the flowers die, to spring forth in new beauty; and in every manifestation of creative power is held out the assurance that we may be created anew in "righteousness and holiness of truth." Ephesians 4:24, margin.
	www.nisbett.com /reference/ed/ed03.htm (1186 words)

	ABC Bodybuilding: Who planted the tree of knowledge of good and evil....
		God created all the plants that are pleasant to the sight and good for food, then tells Adam not to eat from the tree of knowledge a tree not good for food.
		The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
		So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.
	www.abcbodybuilding.com /forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1023145&Main=1023145 (3398 words)

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		The wonderful Tree of Life, discussed in the two 'book ends' of the Bible, Genesis and Revelation, is one of the most fascinating (yet enigmatic) subjects in all the inspired word of God.
		The fruit of this tree was 'good for food' and Adam was told that he could 'freely eat' of it (Genesis 2:16).
		Not just one Tree of Life as in the original Garden of Eden, but many such trees will be planted there with their beautiful and nutritious fruits, freely available to all who 'do His commandments' - that is, to everyone in the holy city.
	www.biblestudymanuals.net /tree_of_life.htm (1638 words)

	Poetry: tree: knowledge of good and evil: enlightenment: prose poems
		Poetry: tree of the knowledge of good and evil: enlightenment: prose poems
		The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the only tree which grows upside-down, with its roots in the air and its foliage buried in the ground.
		Knowledge would only lead to arrogance, and arrogance would lead to the most complete of solipsistic miseries.
	www.iconoclastpress.com /bookPoetryTreeKnowledgeGoodEvilEnlightenmentProsePoem.htm (290 words)

	The Tree of Controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And out of the ground made Yahweh Elohiym to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
		It might also ask, “Since the tree of knowledge was planted in the garden by Yahweh himself and its fruit was fatal to the first couple, what constructive purpose did it serve in the garden since, to our reasoning, it was of no benefit to mankind?”
		If Eve had looked closely at the tree of life she would have found the knowledge she craved; but with it would have came wisdom, power and eternal life.
	christthecreativeword.org /Messages/the_tree_of_controversy.htm (3057 words)

	The Tree of Life
		Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evi
		Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit from the evil tree.
		On either side of the river was the Tree of Life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
	www.rapturechrist.com /tree_of_life.htm (1041 words)

	Why did God put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden?
		Answer: God put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden to give Adam and Eve a choice – to obey Him or disobey Him.
		Adam and Eve were free to do anything they wanted, except eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
		Genesis 3:6-7, “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
	www.gotquestions.org /tree-knowledge-good-evil.html (572 words)

	Why Wouldn't God Want Adam and Eve to Have Knowledge of Good and Evil?
		Since everything else God planted in the garden was good, the natural choice of something to choose from would be knowledge of evil.
		The knowledge of evil brought fear and shame to Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:10).
		Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
	www.godandscience.org /apologetics/tree.html (675 words)

	Influence of the Phallic Idea: The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
		The bo-tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists is said to derive greater sacredness from its encircling the palm--the Palmyra palm being the kalpa-tree, or the "tree of life" of the Hindu paradise.
		The references made to the serpent, to the tree of wisdom, and to the bull in the legend of the "fall," sufficiently prove its phallic character; which was, indeed, recognized in the early Christian church.
		This legend confirms what I have said as to the nature of the Hebrew tree of knowledge, and also the phallic explanation of the "fall" itself, which we consider the attributes of the tempter of the Hindu story.
	www.sacred-texts.com /sex/ipi/ipi04.htm (1010 words)

	The First Sin and the Tree of Life
		Thus the punishment for eating of the tree was mortality.
		Children are not the only ones said to lack the knowledge of good and evil.
		Good and Evil he gained the sense of right and wrong which would be inherited by all of
	www.karaites-usa.org /Studies_On/the_first_sin_and_the_tree_of_life.htm (3823 words)

	Was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil a bad tree? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a bad tree (and God was asking for trouble the whole time).
		That tree, including its fruits, was as perfect as the rest of Paradise, even 'a delight to the eyes and desiring to make wise'.
		The fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil may just as well have been a banana.
	www.abarim-publications.com /MisunderstandingBible/TreeKnowledgeBad.html (258 words)

	Apologetics Press - Why Did God Create the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
		Although the name given to the tree hints at something negative because of the word “evil”; the fact is that this tree was not a generator of evil.
		The tree itself was not “of good and evil”(i.e., that it did not contain good and evil).
		Rather, it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
	www.apologeticspress.org /articles/178 (2388 words)

	The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
		But Paul's knowledge of "Jesus Christ and Him crucified" was not merely a cold intellectual endorsement of the existence of Jesus Christ and the historical fact of his crucifixation.
		It can be a means to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, or it could be a means to impart Jesus as the Tree of Life.
		Many people are finding the knowledge of both good and evil things through the net, and even experiencing them to some extent.
	www.christian-faith.com /bible-studies/treeofknowledge.html (857 words)

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