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“SEE, I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU TODAY LIFE AND GOOD, DEATH AND EVIL… I CALL HEAVEN AND EARTH AS
WITNESSES TODAY AGAINST YOU, THAT I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND DEATH,
BLESSING AND CURSING; THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE…” Deuteronomy 30:15,19
“NOW YOU SHALL SAY
TO THIS PEOPLE,
‘THUS SAYS THE LORD:
BEHOLD, I SET BEFORE YOU
THE WAY OF LIFE
AND
THE WAY OF DEATH.’”
Jeremiah. 21:8

THE LIE THE
TRUTH

MAN-CENTERED GOD-CENTERED
KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE

MAN’S IMAGE What God set before Adam GOD’S IMAGE
IN HIS OWN EYES and Eve He continues to IN MAN’S EYES
set before you and me;
(PROMOTES (1) a tree which produces (PROMOTES
PRIDE IN MAN) forbidden fruit. HUMILITY IN MAN)
(2) a tree which bears
THE 4 ROOTS permissible fruit.
OF WHAT IS
As it was for Adam and
FALSELY Eve, it remains for us today;
CALLED to make a choice between
KNOWLEDGE
fruit (”knowledge”) that
produces death (“in the day
that you eat of it you shall
surely die” (Gen. 2:17) and a

tree which produces fruit
(“knowledge”) unto eternal

life (Rev. 22:2).

Jesus Christ is the Tree of

Life personified. The

Christian is to avoid all

knowledge that can cheat

him of being made

“BEWARE LEST ANYONE CHEAT YOU complete in Christ: “AS YOU HAVE THEREFORE RECEIVED CHRIST
THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND EMPTY
DECEIT, ACCORDING TO THE TRADITION JESUS THE LORD, SO WALK IN HIM, ROOTED
OF MEN, ACCORDING TO THE BASIC AND BUILT UP IN HIM AND ESTABLISHED IN
PRINCIPLES OF THE WORLD, AND NOT
THE FAITH…FOR IN HIM DWELLS ALL THE
ACCORDING TO CHRIST.” Col. 2:8 FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY; AND

YOU ARE COMPLETE IN HIM…” Col. 2:6,9