Garden of Eden (mind)

[guest6088]

I'm of the belief now that the garden is our minds and the trees are two different kinds of mindsets. - The fruit is what grows according to those mindsets. 

After all...  Paradise can only be so in the right mindset. - I've been miserable before in a pyhsically nice place and happy before in a pyhsically horrible place.

You can give a man everything...Even a new guitar and he can still be miserable if his mindset is wrong!

"Who told you you were naked?"

Jesus said the Kingdom is 'within'.  (Inside).

   

[GodIsLove]

I agree...

I believe we all have eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in this earthly life, hence the duality in this existence...and doing so causes us to see our sin (our nakedness), and then, either now or in the future, we eat from the tree of life/Jesus/Holy Spirit/eat his body.

[guest6088]

I agree...

I believe we all have eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in this earthly life, hence the duality in this existence...and doing so causes us to see our sin (our nakedness), and then, either now or in the future, we eat from the tree of life/Jesus/Holy Spirit/eat his body.

Do you think this life is about seeing the so called 'negatives' and 'positives' as one and the same?

For example, one might see fire as a bad thing (forest fires) and the same person might see fire as a good thing (when he needs to light his cigar)?
Some people see death as a bad thing, others don't (depending on the circumstances). 
Do you think it's about being 'innocent' to the 'duality'? Like....Not even noticing that you are naked?  Or looking at a flame and neither thinking it 'good' or 'bad'?

[marie glen]

Amen.. as within, without, and vice versa.. "thy will be done on Earth as in heaven".. The proving of good and evil.. There cannot be inner paradise without God/Love ruling.. And the collective reality cannot be paradise unless (until) Love is locked into place as the (locked in) ruling force.. locked in because all will understand good from evil / life from death / light from dark / outwardly flowing love from inwardly flowing self love as primary. ..And love of course, wins all. :cloud9:
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[rosered]

 

  Amen the tree of life is   to know  with  the Wisdom of God    the   fullness  of the   the Love of God   though Our Lord Jesus Christ  and choosing the good   out of that tree of knowledge , so the perfect will come ..   than we can  despise the evil

I noted that Paul was already bowing the knee   in Honor of   our Lord , as  thankful  knowing   ,as we whom believe do   now also  .

Eph 3
14... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

15from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.   [born again in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ]  to know the truth and be set free  of  slavery  to  bondge and death .


16I pray that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,


17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

18may have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of His love,

19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

The Victorious good news   satan has been defeated at the cross   .

That Jesus took power of death [Lie ]  away from the devil  AT THE CROSS  [ finished  the works  Father sent him to do by  the WORD  of  TRUTH  ]   and cast him out of heaven .

Now Jesus is the Lord of the dead and the living  NOW   openly   shown and no more excuses   and we can  now  know the LOVE OF GOD  though the Son , by the HOLY SPIRIT  witness' s
1Cor 13 Love
...4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.


5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth....