XPost: alt.bible, alt.messianic, alt.religion.christian   
   XPost: alt.christnet.christianlife   
   From: tiller@soil.org.9   
      
   > ===   
   > Ezekiel 31   
   > <...>   
   > No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.   
   >    I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches,   
   > So that all the trees of Eden envied it,   
   > That were in the garden of God.   
   > <...>   
   > To which of the trees in Eden will you then be likened   
   > in glory and greatness? Yet you shall be brought down with   
   > the trees of Eden to the depths of the earth; you shall lie   
   >    in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by   
   > the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,\92   
   > says YHWH God.   
   > ===   
      
      
   see, we're talking to and about a Person   
   and comparing that to trees in the garden   
   as if other trees in the garden are Person-ish.   
      
   so, it isn't even a grand leap to look at   
   The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad   
   as, in part, a Personification of some   
   Being's Ideological leanings.   
      
   and those be NOT    Gods' -own- ideological leanings.   
      
   cuz GOd says, "don't eat that"   
      
      
   furthermore...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)