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NASB | Genesis 3:5 "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 3:5 "For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil." |
Bible Question: In Genesis 3 Satan told Eve that if they ate from the tree they would be like Gods. They were gods weren't they? Or we are gods aren't we? |
Bible Answer: The Hebrew translation: "but God knows that as soon as ou eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be LIKE (key) divine beings who know good and bad." That's the key: like God - you will become endowed with a power which is at present reserved exclusively to God and having once acquired this power, you will be in a position to repudiate His authority. The ordinary explanation of the phrase "good and evil" in the literal sense assumes that God would for some reason withhold from man the ability to discern between what is morally right and wrong - a view that contradicts the spirit of Scripture. Adam would not have been made "in the image of God" if he did not from the first possess the faculty of distinguishing between good and evil. And if he lacked such capacity, his obedience or disobedience to any command whatsoever could have no moral significance. Remember that what we read in verse 5 is a quote from the serpent and has been twisted. In Genesis 2:17, God warns not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. The Hebrew word understood in 3:5 as "divine beings" (elohim with a lower case 'e') is a general term referring to supernatural beings and is often used for angels. |
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