Knowledge of Good and Evil

As part of my training work, I am to read How People Grow by Henry Cloud and Stuart Townsend.  In the part that I read today, they talk about how one of the roles God intended during Creation was that God was the judge of life and we weren't; we were to experience life.  They write, "[God] didn't want humans to 'know' what he knew about evil.

Even though we, as humans, ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we do not and cannot completely comprehend good and evil.  We have finite vision of what is to happen in our lives, linear vision of time, and limited vision of good and evil.  This made me consider:  How can I come before God, knowing that I do not have full knowledge of good and evil, say to God, "This is not good for me, please take it away"?  How can I say to God, "This is good for me, please allow me to have it"?  Or how can I saw to God, "Why are so many bad things happening to me?" How can I say these things if I do not have total knowledge of good and evil?  How do I know whether certain things are truly good or truly bad for me?

It was such a great moment of realization.  How arrogant I had been, thinking I knew what was good and what was bad in my life.  Only God knows.

I was thinking further on this subject and realized that one of the biggest lies Satan can tell us is that we know good and evil or that we are capable of knowing fully about good and evil.  If we believe Him, then we will start to wonder why "bad" things happen to "good" people.  In doing so, we'll be just like Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden and we'll think we completely know good and evil and we'll take things into our own hands instead of trusting the One Who fully knows good and evil and will be with us through everything.