1. WHAT IS A “HELP MEET”?

2. WHY DID GOD PROHIBIT THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL?

1. What is a “help meet”?

God created Adam as a type of Himself: At first there was Adam. And that’s all there was until out of Adam came his servant, his bride, his body, his “church.” If God didn’t think Adam needed a servant He never would have made Eve. That’s why the Bible says twice that God wanted “an help meet for him” (Ge 2:18,20). Many Christians, who spend their time scrounging around in Hebrew and Greek dictionaries, do not know the definition of meet. They ignorantly think it means mate, as in shipmate and teammate. Therefore they run around mindlessly saying things like, “Hi! You must be Jim’s help meet!” and “Hi! You must be Jim’s help mate!” as if they think the two words are synonyms. They aren’t. The definition of meet is suitable. God was looking for “an help [who was] suitable” for man. Therefore, rather than looking ignorant by saying, “Hi! You must be Jim’s help meet!” they should just say, “Hi! You must be Jim’s help/helper/servant!” Again, using the common but ignorant, “Hi! You must be Jim’s help meet!” is the same as saying, “Hi! You must be Jim’s help suitable!” – which makes no sense.

2. Why God prohibited partaking of the knowledge of good and evil.

God’s instructions to Adam were simple and unambiguous: Do not, under penalty of death, partake of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Period. The Authority had spoken. Nothing else was bad and nothing else was prohibited. Just don’t eat the forbidden fruit. Satan got Eve (type of God’s body of saints) to convince Adam (type of God) to go along with her. Her decision to eat the fruit was an independent action, it was carnal, and it was rebellion against Adam’s authority and against God’s. When she asked Adam to submit to her leadership, even though he knew God chose war rather than accept the democratic will of His angels, he yielded to his subject/servant by hearkening to the voice of his wife (Ge 3:17).

After Adam ate the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God asked him why he was hiding from Him. Adam replied that it is good to hide yourself when you are naked because it is bad to be seen naked. God asked, “What authority told you what is good and what is bad? Have you become your own authority on what’s good and evil by eating what I ordered you to avoid? Get out here where I can see you! What’s that you’ve got on?” “Lord, I made this apron out of fig leaves so I wouldn’t be naked.” “Adam, I’m going to teach you an important lesson about Christian doctrine: Whenever contradictions exist there is something doctrinally wrong somewhere because I never mess things up. Take your doctrines for example: You think it is bad to be seen naked. And you think that apron makes you no longer naked. Yet you still hide from Me! The carnal mind will always screw up the Bible because the carnal mind is the antithesis of submission to My authority. Therefore, the only way you can possibly please Me is by humbly accepting and doing every word I give you.”

Thank God for recording Adam and Eve’s carnal invention of “fig leaf morality” at the very beginning of His Holy Bible so we could know they angered Him by declaring nudity to be “bad.” Because of this incident one of the first lessons for God’s people for thousands of years when they studied the Bible has been the fact that we should beware of the sinfulness of morality. Morality is a human-based standard of right and wrong, which angers God because it directly competes against Him as the sole authority in all matters of faith and practice. Adam and Eve did not offend God by wearing clothes; they offended Him by thinking clothes were necessary in order to cover “sinful” nudity. Morality is one of the things we’ll observe in this historical section: how it was introduced to the educated parts of Christian society during the early Middle Ages, its slow and gradual acceptance by Christians, and the zenith of its influence during the Victorian era (circa 1900). If you were ever taught that nudity is a sinful condition that should be covered with fig leaves or other more modern types of clothing, you are seeing your first example of how tradition makes the word of God of none effect (Mk 7:13). The Pharisees hated Christ because He openly attacked their traditions and embarrassed them by quoting plainly-worded verses in the Bible. They reacted not with humble submission to the words of God, but with pride-based defensive anger. They knew He was wrong – just as Adam and Eve knew it was wrong to be naked. You must realize the Pharisees were not an anomaly in Christianity; we have a Natural tendency to be just like them because we have all inherited the same self-based knowledge of good and evil from Adam and Eve – the very knowledge God warned us to avoid in the second chapter of His Book!

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THEOLOGY CRIPPLED CHRISTIANITY

BY QUESTIONING THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF GOD

Well-intentioned men were duped into thinking theology would help Christians become better and more knowledgeable. They thought theology’s “higher textual criticism” would give us more confidence in the Bible as the word of God. A century and a half later what results do we see? Most Christians cannot put two intelligent sentences back-to-back in a discussion about Bible doctrine…because theology taught them the word of God (as defined by God – inspired and inerrant) does not exist in any Bible version on earth! That meant they could no longer rely on God to reveal His truths via old-fashioned Bible study...because no Bible version was completely trustworthy! That’s why “theologians” don’t call themselves Bible believers.

Read the first several paragraphs of the chapter on the Bible version controversy to see what I mean...and read a bit more of the chapter to see the only way we know David killed Goliath. Click HERE to read it in a new window (so you don’t lose your place here).

“CUSSING” AND “SWEARING”: EXAMPLES OF THEOLOGY-CAUSED BLINDNESS

The vast majority of theology-worshipping professors, preachers, and pewsters are so shockingly inept and appallingly ignorant they actually think “cussing”, and “swearing” have to do with saying English words like shit, damn, and hell.

But in reality the proper definitions are:

CUSSING is the slang of cursing. They mean the same thing: To call evil, harm, or misfortune upon; to execrate. Such as: “I hope you break your neck.”

SWEARING is appealing to something else to lend value, credibility, or truth to a statement. Such as: “On my mother’s grave I’m telling you the truth.”

You may want to read the first few paragraphs of the chapter on cussing. Click HERE to read it in a new window (so you don’t lose your place here among the wallpapers).

Theology and its teachings (and the things it doesn’t teach) are abominations to God. We must help the brethren.

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DO CHRISTIANS HAVE A MORAL DUTY

TO OVERTHROW WICKED RULERS?

Point 1: Christ knew how wicked the Pharisees were.

The Pharisees were rulers of human society (Jn 3:1). Christ knew they were evil vipers (Mt 12:34) who transgressed the Bible, worshipped God in vain, and were blind rulers leading human society into the ditch (Mt 15:3,9,14) with false doctrine (Mt 16:6,12). These evil rulers ruined the earthly lives of people, took people to hell with them, and were full of extortion, excess, uncleanness, hypocrisy, and iniquity (Mt 23:14,15,25-28). They murdered their own people, were of the devil, and were liars (Jn 8:40,44,55).

Point 2: In spite of Point 1, Christ taught His people to obediently submit to evil authorities.

Knowing how bad the Pharisaical rulers were, the Lord commanded the Christian multitude (Mt 23:1) to submissively and obediently do all and whatsoever the evil rulers said (Mt 23:3). The second word in v.3 will tell you why it was right for Christians to submit to evil rulers; the word therefore refers to v.2, which says the evil rulers were to be obeyed because they were in positions of authority. All authority is of God and is to be obeyed. And then Christ went on to teach people to obey those evil rulers but not to be like them. Obviously, theologians ignore verses like these that go against the pagan concept of morality, which is now “Christian”.

Point 3: How morality became “Christian”.

The pagan Greek philosophers invented morality, including the concepts of Wisdom and Justice. But for many centuries Christians adhered to Christ’s teaching that rulers are the “heads” and their subjects are the “members of the body” that carry out the will of the head via obedient submission. Yes, it would be nice if the “heads” ruled properly as God-fearing saints, but Christ said to obey even the wicked rulers. One of the earliest Christian leaders to espouse making the moral concepts of Wisdom and Justice part of Christianity was Pope Gregory I in 600 A.D.

The problem with Wisdom and Justice was the fact that they contradicted the Bible’s prohibiting the knowledge of good and evil. If society were to have Wisdom and Justice as part of “Christian morality” it would become good to have “the knowledge of good and evil”, with the probable result that every man would do that which was right in his own eyes (Jud 25:21). In other words, members of the body would rise up and rebel against their heads of society by deciding on their own what was right and wrong.

In the 14^th century the Catholic Church officially incorporated Greek philosophy, including Reason and the moral concepts of Wisdom and Justice, into Christianity. (That’s why one of Rome’s Apocryphal books of the Bible is the Book of Wisdom.)

Point 4: The result.

Christians today think knowing right and wrong is more important than obedience to evil authority. That’s why you’ve never heard your church preach a sermon like or about Christ’s sermon above, and that’s why you are shocked by, disagree with, and think Christ should not be taken literally – which makes you an unbeliever who prefers theology…rather than a believer who sticks with Bible study.

Bible study relies on God, because it is based on faith in what the Bible says.

Theology relies on man, because it is based on skepticism about the written word of God.

Morality comes from man (not the Bible), and therefore changes from generation to generation.

Let men of faith that have ears that hear, hear.