Lessons On The Epistle of St. Paul To The Romans Pg. 143-144
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Lessons On The Epistle of St. Paul To The Romans Pg. 143-144
by Poem on Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:01 am
"The Sweet Guest (the Holy Spirit) says:
"The Tree of Life that is encountered at the beginning of the Book of the Great Revelation (Gn 2:9 and 3:22) and that is found again at the end of the Book of the Great Revelation: the Bible (Revelation of John 22:2 and 22:14) is the figure of the Incarnate Word--whose fruit, the Redemption, hung from the wood of the cross--of that Jesus Christ who is the Bread of LIfe, the Fount of Living Water, Grace, and Who has given you Life with His Death, and you can always eat and drink of Him in order to live the life of the just and have eternal Life.
God does not prohibit Adam from eating of the fruits from the Tree of Life; however, He forbids from eating those useless ones from the Tree of Knowledge. Because an excess of knowledge would have awoken pride in man who would then have believed himself to be equal to God on account of his newly acquired knowledge. And he would have foolishly believed himself capable of being able to possess it without danger, with the consequent rising of an abusive right of self-judgement of his own actions and of acting, consequently, by trampling on every duty of filial obedience towards his Creator--given that, at this point, he was similar to Him in knowledge--his Creator who had lovingly showed him right and wrong, directly or by infused grace and knowledge.
"The Tree of Life that is encountered at the beginning of the Book of the Great Revelation (Gn 2:9 and 3:22) and that is found again at the end of the Book of the Great Revelation: the Bible (Revelation of John 22:2 and 22:14) is the figure of the Incarnate Word--whose fruit, the Redemption, hung from the wood of the cross--of that Jesus Christ who is the Bread of LIfe, the Fount of Living Water, Grace, and Who has given you Life with His Death, and you can always eat and drink of Him in order to live the life of the just and have eternal Life.
God does not prohibit Adam from eating of the fruits from the Tree of Life; however, He forbids from eating those useless ones from the Tree of Knowledge. Because an excess of knowledge would have awoken pride in man who would then have believed himself to be equal to God on account of his newly acquired knowledge. And he would have foolishly believed himself capable of being able to possess it without danger, with the consequent rising of an abusive right of self-judgement of his own actions and of acting, consequently, by trampling on every duty of filial obedience towards his Creator--given that, at this point, he was similar to Him in knowledge--his Creator who had lovingly showed him right and wrong, directly or by infused grace and knowledge.
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