The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil [antikvár]

For thousands of years human beings have tried to understand how the world began and how evil and its attendant ills came into this worid. The explanations they found were often presented in the form of myths, and this is why the sacred scriptures of all religions contain symbolical accounts, which can be understood only if we have the key to their interpretation. The Christian tradition, for instance, has adopted the account given by Moses in the Book of Genesis, but does this mean that Christians really understand it?Let us look, first of all, at what Moses says. On the sixth day of creation God made man and woman and put them in the midst of all kinds of animals and plants in a garden called Eden. Two of the trees in this garden are mentioned specifically: the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and eviland it is the latter that has since become particularly notorious. God