Tim Mackie

And then the third thing is it was desirable for, whoa, wisdom.

God says, somehow this is connected to the knowledge of good and bad.

He told me not to.

I could, whoa, I could strike out on my own here in defining wisdom.

So what's interesting is that both words get used in the actual narrative, and they follow her having made a judgment that it's good for her.

So I think this gives insight to what the Tenth Commandment is doing at the end of the Ten Commandments.

Yeah, that's right.

And I think the Christian tradition is often understood by people to be basically about the negation of desire.

A negation of things that seem good and that's just depriving yourself of that.

But the tree of life is desire fulfilled.

It's the desire fulfilled.

So I think really...

What the Tenth Commandment is inviting us into, it doesn't say this on its surface, you have to think through the hyperlinks, is that I am going to be confronted with moments where I see something that is good for seeing.

And that's going to excite an impulse inside of me that's going to start an internal debate, right?

I desire my neighbor's house.

My neighbor has a great setup.

And killer patio and backyard.

We used this in the last couple conversations, you know.

Oh, dude, totally.

What else is... Catalogs.