So we just started a "Bible in a Year" reading plan. Basically, if we read 3 chapters a day, we'll read the whole thing in a year. It's been 3 weeks, and we're only in the 20's in Genesis. We've reading about every other day, but often jump around, based on what Sunday's message is about, our particular struggles for the week, what's on our hearts, etc.
Maybe we should rename our plan to "Bible in a Year-ish... or 3."
Genesis 1:29 (NIV) "Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that he fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.'"
Genesis 2:16-17 (NIV) "And the Lord God commanded the man 'You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.'"
My thoughts? Reactions?
If Adam and Eve are given permission to eat of any tree with seeds, but they are not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (let's call it TKG&E), this must mean that the TKG&E a seedless tree. As I dug deeper into this thought and wrestled with it for a while, I realized how profound it would be for this tree to not bear seeds.
All of us know basic science - the seeds of a tree indicate that the tree came from another tree, and that those seeds will then disperse to create a new tree... and so the life cycle carries on.
God's existence is infinite. He was not created, He is the Creator. No one, nothing, no power came before him, and none will outlast Him. He is the Alpha and Omega. Interestingly similar to this tree.
Trees have seeds. It's what they have grown from. But it is so appropriate for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to simply exist.
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