The Tree of Knowledge in the bible is said to have been the place where humanity fell from grace, only to be put right with God by hanging his son Jesus from a tree on Golgotha, which is an Aramaic word for "skull."
Knowledge, in other words, is what fills the mind, while a skull is empty of any thought whatsoever, for obvious reasons.
It is always assumed that by hanging up Christ humanity had redeemed itself for pulling down an apple, but it is more likely the case that the "fruit" from both trees, whether in Eden or on Golgotha, was the same fruit.
What if, in other words, the cross is simply the tree of knowledge of good and evil, since that is exactly what Christians claim to have obtained from eating the flesh and drinking the blood - the Fruit of the vine - of Jesus, that Jesus was "the fruit," as it were, and the Serpent selling the promise that, by eating it, "we will become like God, knowing good from evil," has always been the Church itself?
And while Catholics insist that the bread and wine are transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ, they equally insist that their eating and drinking of the two does not make them zombies or vampires.
Knowledge, in other words, is what fills the mind, while a skull is empty of any thought whatsoever, for obvious reasons.
It is always assumed that by hanging up Christ humanity had redeemed itself for pulling down an apple, but it is more likely the case that the "fruit" from both trees, whether in Eden or on Golgotha, was the same fruit.
What if, in other words, the cross is simply the tree of knowledge of good and evil, since that is exactly what Christians claim to have obtained from eating the flesh and drinking the blood - the Fruit of the vine - of Jesus, that Jesus was "the fruit," as it were, and the Serpent selling the promise that, by eating it, "we will become like God, knowing good from evil," has always been the Church itself?
And while Catholics insist that the bread and wine are transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ, they equally insist that their eating and drinking of the two does not make them zombies or vampires.
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