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Once knowledge was experienced and accepted, mankind was by choice
subjected to original sin, or the misunderstanding within knowledge.
Because misunderstanding was a negative fruit, sin was the stain. The
imperfect mind was born, thus the negative, inferior side of human
potential was revealed. As knowledge revealed good and evil, its deceitful
presence suggested Adam and Eve were then unprotected. The snake [a
visual representation of Satan] was obviously deceitful, crafty, and cunning,
because evil’s promptings always seem to be good or well intentioned in the
human mind. And so, life’s struggles began.
Our primary struggle in life begins within the mind, where the conflict of
thoughts abounds. Our intelligence has the power to choose based on what
we know or perceive, as well as the emotional power of reason that directs
our will to choose. However, knowledge as an assumed truth should not be
the source that affects our intelligence alone. Wisdom as truth must be our
source. Knowledge and wisdom are different. Intelligence has the capacity
for rational intellectual processes of thought, but knowledge, as thought, is a
function and not the force itself. The ability to acquire knowledge is a
privileged process, but knowledge is not an assurance of wisdom. Wisdom,
when acquired, experiences and expresses truth as knowledge is validated.
Truth is then known.
Any person of sound mind may acquire knowledge. Knowledge by itself is
something experienced, perhaps as data is accumulated within a computer.
Anyone can learn to accumulate knowledge, but knowledge without
wisdom will never become a source for a person to be like-minded with
God. Knowledge knows about wisdom, and yet a mind may not possess
wisdom until knowledge subsides. When knowledge relents, the mind
begins to know the source of good and evil. Our intellect is a precious gift
that has the capacity to separate the truth from the lie, so we can choose
one over the other. Therefore, wisdom provides truth within the intellect so
we comprehend accurately in order to make the correct choice. This is how
we become like-minded with God for a Divine purpose.
Life has not changed much over the centuries, except that knowledge has
increased in vast proportion. Technology is proof: look at the libraries
around the world, and the accumulation of knowledge within the books.
Question the effects of such knowledge, and think about how knowledge
has affected the world to this point in time. Knowledge is fickle. You can
entertain the truth or you can reject it, all the while thinking that you have