Author Archives: Jack

Why does the account emphasize knowledge? According to Legaspi, what sort of knowledge is communicated by eating of “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad”? And should it be eating? Why not touching or looking at some special object? Why a tree from which you eat? Yes, it is an act of disobedience, butContinue reading “Jan 16”

 Drawing on what the text itself provides, tell me what meaning is being conveyed. What primarily is God doing in this account? The human person? And taking it as an obvious truth that God doesn’t need to rest, what is this business with the seventh day? At the surface, the opening in Genesis gives us aContinue reading “Jan 14”