Good and Evil

...In the middle of the Garden, there were two special trees mentioned. The tree of LIFE and the tree of knowledge (knowing) of Good and Evil (the ONLY forbidden tree). It's interesting, that it was not just the tree of Evil, but it was mingled with Good. The fruit was good looking and good tasting, still it was full of sin and rebellion against God. I explained it to my 8yr old son in this way. It was like eating some delicious chocolate chip cookies, still warm from the oven; Pleasing to the eyes, the nose and to the taste buds. Oh yeah, but I forgot to say that the good ingredients are laced with doggy poop, which can never be removed from the system. That poop would effect everything you touched and everyone you gave birth to. Now forever you would stink and so would they.

So Adam and Eve ate. The fruit of Good and EVIL and it's effect got into their BLOOD stream and was passed down thru out the entire human race. It also changed everything they touched. Leaving us all in need of a BLOOD transfusion, a "Do Over", a 'Clean out'! This sin was the introduction to death as we know it.
In that moment, Our Fall from all that was GOOD, put us in need of a Savior to rescue us from all that was Evil. Gen.2,3

Because of the cross, death and resurrection of Jesus, there is a cure! We can be born AGAIN, free from the domination of sin that leads to death. Because of Him, we now have access to LIFE that lasts forever! This Life taste good, Looks good and Smells good, to those who are looking for the same.

. ... Oh the Blood of Jesus, it washes white as snow!