You cannot simply cut off the last four words of the term as if they have no meaning.
Michael
Quoting: 4Q529 I am not cutting off anything. You are being a minutiae man now. The tree of knowledge does in fact include good and evil.
You don't understand.
It is not a question of 'including' good and evil.
It is a question of
defining everything in terms of good and evil.
This is the 'fallen' consciousness of the "self".
It is a dimension of consciousness
NOT Created by and in the image of God (
Genesis 1:27) but which creates itself by the 'movement' of self-reflection. (And, by claiming an ability to define all good and evil, the "self" is claiming to be equal to the Creator--see Chapter 14:13 of the
Book of Isaiah.)
It defines itself as the source of all "good" and the "not self" as the source of all evil.
That is the fundamental mechanism of conflict, violence, terrorism, warfare and genocide: the projection of all evil upon the "other" or the "not self".
Or you can go back to believing your juvenile fairy tales.
Michael
