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“Good” and “bad” both refer to God’s requirements: Is this (whatever “this”
entails) true or false? Is this good or evil? Studying the two options clarify their
meanings and their implications. Knowledge is gained. The thesis and the antith-

esis are identified and distinguished. They are both part of creation, because God
created them both: “Consider the work of God: For who can make that straight,
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which he has made crooked? In the day of prosperity [tovah ] be joyful [tov —lit-
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erally, “be well”], but in the day of adversity [raah ] consider: God has made the
one as well as the other” (Eccles. 7:13–14).
Once the two aspects of reality—fact and fantasy, truth and lie, the good and
the evil—are told apart, a synthesis may be created, and existence on a higher
level—the level of the new synthesis, the offspring of the Hegelian dialectic—may
be reached.

“Good,” “bad, “sexual intercourse,” the Hegelian dialectic , the biblical theory
of knowledge …

These are all coincidences … maybe.