How do we know good from evil?

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  Good morning, dear students,

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  welcome back to our seminar in character developments or the chapel program.

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  And for today's

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  video, we are going to watch a video entitled How can we know good from evil.

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  This is a very important one for us to know.

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  And don't forget, after you're watching the video,

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  please answer the questions on the link as well.

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  Let's pray together

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  for forgetting. Haven't thank you so much for your blessings.

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  And as we watch this video and answer the question when you bless all the students

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  so that they can gain knowledge and understanding about this particular matter

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  in the book of Genesis, there's a famous story about Adam and Eve,

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  a snake and two trees.

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  And this story has a lot to say to us about morality,

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  human nature and the incredible power and consequence of human choices.

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  So how should we define good and evil? Let's find out.

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  We live between the trees.

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  From the very beginning,

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  there were two trees that dictated the course of human history,

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  the tree of life and the Tree of knowledge of good and evil,

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  right?

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  Think

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  God wanted to create a relationship with Adam and Eve, or just with humans.

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  Um

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  of course he knew what was gonna happen,

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  but I think he wanted to give them a chance

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  to choose.

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  A lot of people may think that it was like a test to test certain people,

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  but I think part of God's character and him showing us

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  how he loves is giving us the option of free will.

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  In the end, it was kind of too

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  establish a barrier of truth and trust between God and the two humans.

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  The first humans

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  ultimately giving us that choice too

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  choose to be for him instead of

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  um

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  choosing the other road which is not being with him.

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  God gave us the trees as a choice.

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  A choice to choose or not choose him.

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  He placed the tree

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  and told Adam and Eve not to eat from it.

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  Adam and Eve failed. And that they thought they could attain the knowledge of God.

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  They decided to judge what was evil and what was good for themselves

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  and what's wrong with that.

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  We decided to be our own judge. But we change as humans.

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  Everything about us changes from our opinions, our beliefs,

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  our bodies and our hairstyles

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  with our ever changing selves. Our ideas of good and evil will also change

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  what we once thought was good might be evil

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  and vice versa.

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  When we are always changing, how can we really know good from evil.

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  We need someone who doesn't change

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  someone who is constant.

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  How do we do that?

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  How can we know good from evil?

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  Mm hmm.

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  Giving up our independence from God.

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  We must reconnect to what we once turned away from

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  choosing only to live in him and through him.

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  So if the tree was placed as a choice with evil attached.

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  Did God create evil?

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  No.

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  Okay.

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  Does light to create darkness?

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  Does life create death?

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  God cannot create something without his presence?

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  Yeah.

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  Good and evil are two separate concepts.

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  One is the absence of the other.

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  They don't have anything in common.

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  There are no traces of light in darkness and there are no traces of God and evil.

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  Evil is the absence of God.

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  And we chose to know what that is.

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  Why the Tree of knowledge of good and evil.

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  Did God not want us to have knowledge?

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  He's given us very capable brains and he doesn't want to throw that away.

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  The knowledge he didn't want us to know is evil.

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  He doesn't want us to experience what life is without him.

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  He only wishes for the best in our lives.

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  He wants us to live life with him to experience all the goodness that there is.

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  The choices made many years ago still dictate the course of humanity.

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  But we face the same choices every day.

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  We still stand between two trees.

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  Which one will you choose.