Tim Mackie
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And fulfilling that desire will not bring tree of life to me or to them.
Isn't that interesting?
So the proverb actually only is really true.
For the right kind of desire.
For the right objects of desire.
Yeah.
Yes, that's right.
And the naming of certain objects of desire as actually not good for you
is in the service of the greater vision of giving you the object of your desires.
In other words, the goal of God is to give us the fulfillment of our desires.
The problem is we don't know the difference between good and not good objects of desire.
So we drew attention to this.
I just want to come back to it.
Because for me it was significant that we get to the moment at the tree in Genesis 3.
The ordering of the descriptions is different and the words have changed.
So let's come to it.
Genesis 3 says,
When the woman saw, the first thing is that it was good for eating.
That's exactly from chapter two.
But the difference is that in chapter two, it was the second description of the tree.