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ljm2002

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38. In every Bible I've read...

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #31)

Thu Aug 13, 2015, 10:34 AM

Aug 2015

...(well, where I've read that passage anyway -- I've only read a couple of bibles all the way through) -- the full phrase is "the tree of knowledge of good and evil".

That seems to have a very different meaning. It seems to be an issue of mankind having a moral sense, not of mankind having knowledge per se. I'm sure theologians have other interpretations. But the common usage "tree of knowledge" just bugs me because it is truncated and seems to imply something different than the actual phrase in the bible.

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