- When God created Heavens and the Earth, it was all good but man choose to listen evil, stop trusting His words and disobeyed, God cursed the World and death creeps in. (Gen 2:17)
- Human are now troubled with both knowledge of good andevil ever since but God took away the Tree of Life from the World. (Gen 3:22)
- God feels the pain and suffering of man on earth because He loves them and he came down as a flesh, humbling himself to show the way back to the lost Tree of Life (John 11:25) and was given again, first to the apostles then to those who believed in Jesus that he was God’s incarnation (Acts 2:38)
God’s Creation:
In beginning God created Heavens and Earth (Gen 1:1). And God said, Let there be light: and there was light (Gen 1:3). And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. (Gen 1:4).
Question:
- He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing. (Job 26:7) Where were you when I lay the foundation of the Earth? Tell me if you understand (Job 38:4).
- Should we care about God or continue to mock him? (Rom 1:21)
Some of our classic greatest scientists observed and concluded God created the Universe as below:
- Isaac Newton: Formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation. Newton studied the Bible extensively and saw science as “thinking God’s thoughts after Him.”
- Johannes Kepler: Discovered the laws of planetary motion. He viewed astronomy as revealing God’s geometric design of the universe and prayed, “My Lord and my Creator! I would like to proclaim the magnificence of your works.”
- Galileo Galilei: Supported heliocentrism and wrote that the universe’s mathematical order pointed to a divine architect.
- Robert Boyle : Pioneered modern chemistry and gas laws (Boyle’s Law). He funded lectures defending Christianity and saw nature as God’s creation.
- Michael Faraday : Discovered electromagnetic induction. He saw the laws of nature as evidence of God’s consistent power.
- Other notables from this era include James Clerk Maxwell, Formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, believed the universe’s order reflected divine intelligence. Louis Pasteur, Founder of microbiology and germ theory, affirmed God’s role in creation. Nicolaus Copernicus, Gregor Mendel (founder of genetics, an Augustinian friar), and Lord Kelvin (thermodynamics).
Some of our prominent 20th and 21st century scientists have also believed God’s creation such as:
- Francis Collins : Led the Human Genome Project and later directed the U.S. National Institutes of Health. A former atheist who became an evangelical Christian, he argues in The Language of God that the universe’s fine-tuning, the moral law, and the elegance of DNA point to a Creator. He accepts theistic evolution (God using evolutionary processes) and sees science as “glimpsing God’s mind.”
- John Polkinghorne : Theoretical physicist and professor at Cambridge who resigned to become an Anglican priest. He explored how quantum mechanics, cosmology, and fine-tuning suggest a “Mind and Purpose” behind the universe, writing extensively on science-theology compatibility.
- Others like Charles Townes a Nobel laureate for the maser/laser. He stated that the beauty of nature is “obviously God-made”. Arthur Compton, a Nobel Prize for the Compton effect in quantum physics. He affirmed belief in God as Creator.
We human ruined such Amazing Creation of God because of disobedient heart to His Holy commands and the whole World has been cursed, chaos and in groaning pain, including our best friend animals like dogs (Rom 8:22).
We have plenty of historical evidence that God’s supernatural power with human history. God revealed as Jesus, walks on earth, has the power to cash-out demons, heal the sick, and performed plenty of miracles including forgiveness of sin, claimed to be God, raising the dead that was buried for 4 days, died and rose again. The followers’ lives changed upside down, and willing to die for what they know till today.
Before the fall to sin:
- The Bible tells us that man had great privileges, powers, enjoyed life without pain and death
- Were created good and was made in the image of God (Gen 1:26-27)
- Direct fellowship with God, No fear, shame, pain or sorrow and Immortality was possible with the Tree of Life but there was also Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil (Gen 2:9).
- Adam had extra ordinary power and was able to name all animals (Gen 2:19)
- No needed to work hard with pain for their food (3:17)
- No death, decay or disease and enjoyed their innocent life (Gen 2:16-17, 3:8)
After the Fall to sin & Death:
- God took away the Tree of life, to avoid human living forever in the evil fallen state (Gen 3:22)
- Gen 2:17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall NOT eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
- But Eve believed the lie and ATE and their life got spiraled down with good and evil ever since, while evil always wins in the absent of God’s commands in our heart.
- Gen 3:17 says “To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life”
Deep dive to what is knowledge of good & evil:
- Tree of Life is out of equation now as it was hidden by God, but we incubate the knowledge of good & evil fighting in our heart like a virus continually till today.
- Both good and evil exist from our birth and get worse as we grow to the world until we die. No human has the power to get rid of these evil thoughts, it will always follow us (Ps 51:5).
- We human were cursed with this evil to stop us meet our glory and great purpose designed by God.
- Only God has the power and says he will one day replace our heart of stone (Eze 36:26) Till then we will always loose to evil power because no one can follow the Law (Rom 3:10)
- See how the knowledge of good and evil are always fighting inside our heart & mind below:
| Knowledge of Good | Knowledge of Evil | God’s Commands |
| I need to trust in God like I do for my parents with anything that may happen to me | I’m not sure if God really cares or if He is there fir me. I see no evidence and the need for God. I can live and look after myself anyway, so I don’t need to trust God. | “Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord. “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?” (Jer 17:5, 9) And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.” Deu 31:8 |
| I need to help my mom, dad, brothers, Sisters & Others | Nope, they don’t help me either | “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Gal 6:2) |
| I need to study, focus and grow in God’s word like Peter (He started with weak faith and can’t cash out demon, deny Jesus etc but turned out to be Powerful that even on his shadow the devil and sickness flee away) (Matt 17:21, Acts 5:15-16) | Nope, Bible and God’s thing is boring. Right now, my mobile/games/music/Computer etc are more fun and they always come first to my heart & mind when I get up from bed to till I go to sleep. | as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow up in your salvation. (1 Pet 2:2) |
| I need to be humble so I can learn to Trust in God | Nope, others don’t either, why should I? | “When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.” (Pro 11:2) “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.” (James 4:10) |
| I need to be kind to others so I may understand God’s forgiveness | Nope, they don’t forgive me either | “And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” (Eph 4:32) |
| I need to be clean in my heart so I may know why God created us in His image that we are more important than the Law. | There is no point doing any good. Everyone else is pretending to be good anyway. I just need to do what I want and I am winning! | Pretend to love God by observing the Law, but deny more important healing miracle on Sabath (Luk 6:8-11) Create in me clean Heart (Ps 51:10) You are like a beautiful white paint of a tomb, but disgusting inside. (Mat 23:27) |
| I need to grow in my Knowledge about God else I can make lots of mistake without knowing. | Nope, I’ll be okay without God | “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” (Hosea 4:6) |
| I need to love God because there is the greatest future following Him. I can tell from past great Prophets, Apostles and great believers. | Nah, Unbelievers of Jesus are having great time too. I don’t even understand who is God and why. I’m doing whatever I want. | Do not turn away from my command left or right, or have other gods. (Deu 28:14) Their stomach are their god, their success is their destruction (Phil 3:19) ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’” (Mat 22:37) |
| I need to memorize God’s words and always think about them everyday | Nope, They are just another great story about the past. | “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.” (Deut 28:1) Deu 11:18-19, Joshua 1:8, Ps 119:105) |
| I need to work hard and prioritize doing good things, starting from small practices like my sport exercise | Nah, I can do it later. I don’t care | “The hand of the diligent will rule, But the lazy man will be put to forced labor.” (Proverbs 12:24) (Pro 12:24, 2 Thes 3:10) |
| I need to read the Bible to know God more | No, other don’t read it either | But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! (2 Tim 3:1-5) |
| I need to go treasure hunting like Easter chocolate but this time God Supernatural Treasure! | I don’t think I can ever find any good thing. I’m always unlucky. I don’t care. I have to defend myself from other people who are trying to take advantage of me and what I have at all cost. | If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, And find the knowledge of God. (Pro 2:4-5) I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the Lord, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel. (Isa 45:3) Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. (Mat 6:19-20) Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field (Mat 13:44) in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Col 2:3) |
| If heaven, the power of God and Glory is for me, why should I be sad and worry for anything? I choose to be happy. | No way, I’m overwhelmed with what happen to me. Feels like nobody loves me, even God doesn’t care. I don’t have a family, friends like others. | Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. (1 Pet 5:6-7) Rejoice always (1 The 5:16, ) |
| I need to Stay away from Greediness which could take away my Faith, and be considerate for others, start from small things like thinking others before I eat every meals. Those small sacrifices are for Jesus as He asked for it! | Other can take care of themselves. I’ll take care if myself/I don’t need God. Not my problem | “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” (I Timothy 6:10 ) Do not join glutton. For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty (Pro 23:20-21) You gave me food when I was hungry Matt 25:35 |
| I need to Forgive as this is a Test from God for a bigger blessing that is coming. | No, I will repay anyone for what they’ve done to me! It’s not Fair. They wrong to me first. Its written, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot (Ex 21:24) | And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. (Ep 4:32) And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors (Mat 6:12) |
| I need to pray, because some bigger problem even requires serious prayer with fasting | Nah, the world is cursed and it doesn’t make any difference anyway. Doing any good or prayer make no sense. | And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive. (Mat 21:22) However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. (Mat 17:21) |
| I need to measure my spirit from how thankful I am, in my heart for everything | There are worse people than me everywhere, yet they are still alive with sins and without thanking God | in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. (1 The 5:18) |
| I need to respect my brothers and sisters before the Lord just like King David, when he was thirsty, he poured out the water knowing his people die fetching the water from the enemy | Others are idiots, If I can used them for my benefit, it means I am smart. I’ll do what pleases me as long as I’m winning and serving my goal. The fittest live is the way to go. | David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!” 16 So the three mighty warriors broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the Lord. 17 “Far be it from me, Lord, to do this!” he said. “Is it not the blood of men who went at the risk of their lives?” And David would not drink it. (2 Sam 23:15:17) If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? (1 John 4:20) |
| I need to investigate things to find out what is right and good for myself and others | My body is my own and I can do whatever I want. I can hang out with anyone. | Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1) |
| I need to contribute to the team to make things better and make things more positive, even of its a simple thing, I’m a team members and my motivation counts to the Lord | Not my type, I’m not interested and I’m not going to help. Let me listen my own music. I don’t care. | He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad. (Mat 12:30) |
| I need to turn away form evil and I will not be afraid of a creation (devil and wicked plan) but fear the Creator who can kill both your body and soul | There are no such thing as demons or evil spirit. It’s just a made up mind and evil thing is just a normal survival thing for human. | Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord (Acts 3:19) Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Pro 16:18) In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. (1 John 3:10) What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? 11So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires. (Rom 6:1-2,11-12) Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Matt 10:28 |
| More than stop sinning, I need to understand how to Trust God with joy like trusting my parents when I was little. God and His words are the answer to all problems. Even when it seems unreasonable and feels like losing, I choose to trust in Him. | Nobody is perfect and we are all sinners. I will never be perfect anyway. Sometimes I do good things but the other time, its okay to Sin and be evil. | Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. (Luke 10:27) “Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath. The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.” Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”” John 5:8-14 |
| I need to return to God and restore the Joy of salvation and Purpose of my life | I will go back to God things later. Let me enjoy my world as I wanted. God will forgive my sins later anyway. | Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love (Rev 2:4) “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19) |
| I need a new heart & spirit because I can’t control myself over temptation even if I don’t want the evil stuff, I keep doing it. I can’t trust my heart and mind anymore. | Nope, its normal, everyone did wrong too. I don’t think its a problem. It’s common. No problem | I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (Eze 36:26) “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:5) It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. (John 6:63) |
The Tree of Life:
The knowledge of Evil is too strong and it pull us away further and further from God till we eventually become demonic and dark and we have no strength to be good. The more successful you are in this world without God you become more demonic eg. Epstein, Britney Spear & the rich.
“And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Mat 19:24)
- The Tree of Life was Hidden after the fall (Gen 3:22)
- But God has a plan to give us back the Tree of life by preparing the way back to our original greatness and supernatural power (John 15:5)
- By humbling Himself as human, so we could see God’s Supernatural Power by our own eyes that we may trust in Him and believe with gladness that He taste human dead for our sin to show His love so we may find the Tree of Life again through Jesus (Phil 2:6-8) as a free gift and not by our good works. So no one can boast (Eph 2:8-9).
- But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
(Acts 1:8) - Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38)
| Knowledge of Good | Knowledge of Evil | Whats God said |
| I believe Jesus you are God, you Love me, died for me and give me new heart and Life so I will be with you Forever. | I don’t belong to heaven, will not go to heaven, I’m not sure if God loves me. I’m pathetic sinner and makes mistakes all the time. | “Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58). God was manifested in the flesh (1 Tim 3:16) Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross! (Phil 2:6-8) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full (John 10:10). |
| I need to fight spiritual fight. Else I feel like I’m loosing my power and authority | hmm, I don’t even know how to fight evil | For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. (Eph 6:12-13) For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live (Rom 8:13) |
| I need the Holy Spirit and I believe God can do great and wonders in my body & life through Jesus! | I don’t believe such magical thing will happen to me | With God all things are possible (Matt 19:26) I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high. (Luke 24:49) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8) And perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. (Acts 4:13) so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them. 16 Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed. (Acts 5:15-16) 2 Cor 3:18, Eph 3:16 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil 4:13) |
| I need to be filled and recharged with the Spirit | The bible says God is loving and forgives my sins. That’s enough I don’t need to do anything now. | Do not quench the Spirit (1 Thes 5:19) Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. (Josh 1:8) And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit. Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord (Eph 5:20) |
| I want to share my secret joy of salvation hidden in God Jesus to others those who are deceived by evil and are in bondage of sins. | I’m too shy and others can do it. | “Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, and I will make you fishers of men. (Mat 4:19) The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who is wise saves lives (Pro 11:30) Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age (Matt 28:20) |