We have the opportunity, the privilege, to work in a way that makes ourselves and those we work with something we were not, something better; tending and caring for our selves, our souls, and allowing God to continue creating in us and through us in the world. Delving into the principle: We had not yet internalized the knowledge of good and evil or eaten from the tree of life. The first caused death the second would have caused life. We existed in a middle state between internalizing the death principle (which we did) and internalizing the life principle (which God later provided in Christ); a middle state where the actions of tending the Garden “to work it and take care of it” would change us would cause us to become something we were not yet, would continue creation in us. We know the names of only two trees in the Garden. There were many more trees! The fruit (from the tree {of the knowledge [of good and evil]}) changed us. Were (and are) there other trees of other knowledges, the fruits of which change us
as we tend the world and eat its fruit ? It appears God puts us in a world where the work we do changes us, for better or worse.
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