Question On Genesis 3:22

I love your ministry and appreciate the peculiar insight the Lord blesses you with. I would like to hear your thoughts on Genesis 3:22. What does God mean in this verse? How did we become like Them, and what does it mean to “know good and evil”? Also, please explain the concept of man eating from the Garden’s Tree of Life and living forever after sinning?

Q. I love your ministry and appreciate the peculiar insight the Lord blesses you with. I would like to hear your thoughts on Genesis 3:22.

What does God mean in this verse? How did we become like Them, and what does it mean to “know good and evil”? Also, please explain the concept of man eating from the Garden’s Tree of Life and living forever after sinning? Did this mean that Adam would have circumvented the Redemptive Plan?

Maybe eating from the Tree of Life was the second step to Satan’s plan for the couple. He probably did not realize how severe the instant, numbing, shock to hit Adam and Eve would be following their sin, and could not convince them to eat from The Tree of Life immediately afterward. Would they have been trapped in a perpetual state of Sin?

A. Genesis 3:22 says “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

By attaining the knowledge of good and evil, man had become like God (the Hebrew word for God is plural, hence the use of the plural pronoun), just as the serpent had said (Gen. 3:5).

But he had also acquired a “sin nature” something that God doesn’t have and the serpent neglected to mention. This meant that man now had knowledge of everything evil with no restraint against acting on it. The two different words translated “naked” in Genesis 2:25 and 3:10 tell the story. In 2:25 before the fall, the root word means naive or empty. Afterward in 3:10 it means cunning and crafty. In trying to become like God, they had actually become like the serpent.

If man also attained eternal life there would be no limit to the damage and destruction. Making man mortal placed limits on his capacity for evil without depriving him of his autonomy. He could still choose redemption, as long as he did so during his mortality.

And Man is trapped in a perpetual state of sin, with no hope of freeing himself. It’s why we need a savior.