No Right to Know.

 Why do we imagine we have a right to know evil? Satan said to Eve…

Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 

Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 

 God said…

Gen 2:16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 

Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 

Eve chose to eat the forbidden fruit because of a lie. She didn't think she'd die. She imagined having her eyes opened to know good and evil would make her like a god. Satan lied and told her she would be 'as gods'. He didn't lie completely though, he loves to mingle truth with lies. Gods do know good and evil, but Gods are from everlasting to everlasting, without beginning or end.  Gods can create from nothing. Gods are the purest of love. Mankind are created beings, not Creators. Mankind are powerless, not gods. Tempted with being given God knowledge, Eve succumbed. She'd been told by her Creator Himself that she shouldn't eat of this tree, told it was a tree of knowledge of good and evil, told she would die if she chose to gain that knowledge by eating the fruit. She deemed it worth it, worth death. Did she know what death was? Yes. God gave her and Adam that knowledge of death's meaning. What good would such a warning be if there were no knowledge of the punishment? To tell a child they will not be allowed to play with a drum if they are disobedient would mean nothing if they had absolutely no knowledge of what a drum was.  But given the knowledge of the drum and its allure to be played with, the child would have incentive to be obedient.  God let them know what death would be should they eat of the fruit. Yet, Satan called God a liar and said that mankind would not die. Instead of dying they would just be given knowledge, and God had said it was a tree of knowledge. 

Death. There are many forms of death, aren't there? Seriously. You've heard the term a death to innocence, you've also heard- "You're dead to me." - spoken to a living being. The death that Adam and Eve were given knowledge of was the death of their non-existence, a death of their entire being. Satan knew that death was non-existence, as well as an end to their forms.  

When Eve bit into the fruit her death of non-existence was not instantaneous. The death of her being however had begun instantly, the process was underway. All the eternal life giving particles that she'd been imbued with were instantly tainted with the promised punishment of death. Everything changed for her and she knew it immediately. The knowledge of evil mingled with the knowledge of good, and that evil was horrific beyond anything she might have considered, but under God's protection she had no need to know of any evil, not the slightest bit. That she knew it existed and would take away her eternal life should have sufficed, it did not.

We have this belief that as created beings we have rights to things, oh wait, we forget we are created beings and that is why we believe we have the right to things. The knowledge of good and evil tainted all aspects of us, even our perception of rights as being people. We've put ourselves on pedestals- ever seeking a little god status that Satan promised we get by having knowledge. Knowledge does not make God, but knowledge especially evil knowledge can lead one to believe they are as gods. God does know evil and good, and it's a heavy weight of knowledge never intended for created beings.

We must all die with Christ- we must all be crucified with Christ, and rise with Him.  We suffer under the curse of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, a tree we had no right to partake of, a tree's fruit that is the root cause of all the suffering we ever experience in any way.

Please, Lord, we would be YOURS. Live in us, let Your mind be in us, because the mind of our own is corrupt, so very corrupt.

All by Your grace and mercy, Your love.