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But remember that this is the tree God said NOT to eat from! It
was forbidden in the Garden of Eden, and it is still forbidden

today too.

Here, we categorize everything as being either good and bad.

We hope our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds so that we
will be pleasing to God. This is being SELF-focused, but not

totally RULE driven.

Here, we live by a mixture of grace and law. Jesus says this is

pouring new wine into old bottles, and we shouldn’t do this.

The fact is that human beings cannot or will not live by rules.

Adam and Eve only had one rule: ‘Don’t eat from the forbidden

Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad.’ They didn’t live by it.

Now we have countless self-help books, even written by Christian

authors, to give us many more rules to try to live by.

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