Knowing Good and Evil

I believe that humans are incapable of truly understanding good and evil - in fact, we were never designed for this superfluousness task - after all, if we never ate the fruit, evil would not have entered the world and we would never have the need to avoid it.  In addition, our inane attempts to teach each other to rely on our own morality to determine right and wrong, while expecting positive and consistent results is sort of like expecting a monkey to write a novel if he is given access to a computer.  The fact is, our justice system causes more evil than good - ironically, without even addressing the issue of justice. Indeed, our incapacity to know the future excludes us from determining right from wrong - we need hindsight in order to see how our choices affect the world and others. So when Adam and Eve ate of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, it didn't act as a 'magic' tree that gave them a new super power - instead, it was a fool's choice.  The very act of eating the fruit that God reserved for some other purpose (rather than feeding Adam and Eve), defined them as disobedient and cursed them by replacing their ability to choose between different good things with the limited ability to pick between lesser good things.  Jesus asked the Pharisees (tongue in cheek) why they called him Good (equating him with God) when only God is Good - correctly pointing out that only the Alpha and Omega who defines Good is capable of knowing the Good and providing us with the correct lenses for viewing it.

I think God has been trying to get this point across from the time He kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden.  It appears to me that He presented His 10 commandments to us not only to provide a standard for us to live by, but to prove a larger point, we are incapable of choosing to follow it and we are judgmental towards each other when we fail.  Instead of providing freedom for us, the law ended up condemning us because, despite Adam and Eve's initial assertions, we are not able to choose the Good.

Christ liberated us through the highest expression of love - forgiveness, despite the failure of Adam and Eve to ask for it.  The best part is the Good News of Christ is not instruction on how to effectively determine right and wrong, instead it is the revelation that we were actually created to love, rather than judge and that He is going to use our lives to remind our hearts how to do just that.  Birds chirp, dogs bark and we love.  Love cuts across good and evil - if we choose to submit to Christ's work in our hearts, we will automatically find our niche in Creation.  Finally, finding our rightful purpose allows us to rely on God for our morality and our hearts to graduate from the school of love.