@Greatest I am cv,
Greatest I am;53610 wrote:How can man be guided to the good when he does not have knowledge of good and evil.
If he knows the good then he must know the evil. They are measurements on the same graph. Can't have one end of a stick without some other end.
As to who said to be as God's, check the end of Genesis 3.
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DL
OK - Here is the difference! That was after God made clothes for them.
Genesis 3:21:
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
The Lord made clothes for Adam and Eve - "coats of skins:" The Lord again introduced Divine Truths to the church, after the church had made their own truths (clothed themselved with fig leaves).
The Lord said "man is become one of us:" The man having clothes from the Lord (instead of from himself) is compared to the Lord and the angels of heaven, thus the plural "us." Man is compared to the angels then, after the truths have been given back to man from the Lord, as man is closer to the angels than close to God, and is compared to the angels.
The Lord says "lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:" Man learns as if on his own now, and cannot return to eating directly from the tree of Life. The clear perception of truth from good (a more direct perception from the Lord) is no longer there, and man must learn truths in conjunction with listening to his conscience, as if on his own, yet from the Lord from scripture and doctrines and preachings and conversations.