Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Genesis 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.
Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?
It is interesting that the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” bears fruit and that the idea of “knowing” produces both good and bad fruit. Adam never “knew” his wife until AFTER he ate of the forbidden tree. And the fruit of that “knowing” produced the murderer Cain. Before that, they must have “known” God and that knowledge was so intimate that there was fulfillment in the relationship. Who knows what the command “Be fruitful and multiply“ could have meant and what the obedient experience would have been had they obeyed God by “ knowing” His will and not eaten from the forbidden tree.
The thought I am trying to develop Is that “knowing God is better than sex”. That the relationship between the pleasure of “knowing” God to such an intimate level is intensely more satisfying in a spiritual sense than “knowing a person (or yourself) in the physical sense. Thereby relegating the sexual physical pleasure of “knowing” a person to a lesser or even a perversion of the greater spiritual pleasure of the “knowledge“ of God. The intent here is to focus in on the promise of the provision of God in the same manner as Christ brings forth when He says in Matthew 4:4 “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
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