Tim Mackie

It brings goodness for eating.

And eating involves the act of having taken and then consuming it.

Like not just taking it, but taking it into myself.

We start talking about, yeah, uniting with it.

Uniting with it.

Okay.

So this is teaching us that within God's world that is seven times declared good, there are objects that when you look at them, they excite desire.

That's right.

However, then God's going to give a command.

There's one tree that you are not to eat from because it looks good for eating, but it will kill you.

So this is teaching us like the fundamental grammar, the rules of desire, that many things that are desirable

are not good for you.

Many things that are desirable are good for you, and they are all good to look at.

So really, the Eden story was, because let's go back up to our proverb, hope deferred makes the heart sick.

So you'll experience anguish when something you desire is withheld from you.

Yeah.

And if it's a good object of desire, that's really hard.

But also when it's an inappropriate object of desire, it makes our hearts sick too, right?

And not every fulfilled desire is a tree of life.

Some desires like my neighbor's house or wife or donkey, like that's not mine.