Why did God make the... - Page 3 - Religion, God, and Theology

...Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden in the first place? I have never understood this. Was it to test our free will to sin? Was it to try and set boundaries for us?

If He knew that Eve and then Adam would sin, why not avoid this whole mess and just not put it there?

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil surrounded the Tree of Life -- but Genesis says that Adam "must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

In Lurian Kabbalah, the Fall of Man is symbolic for the shattering of the vessels (Shevirat HaKeilim). It's was a natural process of spiritual evolution and not necessarily bad.

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Go on then tell us, what does it represent?

The Tree of Life is the 10 numbers and the 22 Hebrew letters (32). It's supposed to be symbolic of the human body but it has mathematical interpretations. A famous Rabbi/physicist described it as a 5-dimensional hypercube -- 2 to the 5th power.

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10-08-2009 , 06:19 PM

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In Lurian Kabbalah, the Fall of Man is symbolic for the shattering of the vessels (Shevirat HaKeilim). It's was a natural process of spiritual evolution and not necessarily bad..

This sounds interesting - I have no idea what it means, though. Links? More explanation? What Jars? I agree completely with the bolded part. I'd add "it's a necessary part of the process" actually.

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10-08-2009 , 08:23 PM

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This sounds interesting - I have no idea what it means, though. Links? More explanation? What Jars? I agree completely with the bolded part. I'd add "it's a necessary part of the process" actually.

It is interesting and there's even a Jungian connection...Jung is almost as busy a boy as Freud.

God is sometimes portrayed as a potter in the bible. Paul calls people "jars of clay" in one of the NT books, one of the Corinthian books, I think.

Here's a link...anima woman....ha ha...I believe that the male's version of the anima/animus woman is more fractured than is the female version of the anima/animus man. I guess women are better natural integrators.

http://www.newkabbalah.com/shev.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_and_animus

Interesting post krushing. I hadn't heard of the Shevirat HaKeilim before. I wonder if its related to the Mazel tov and stomping on glasses by newlyweds at Jewish weddings.

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10-09-2009 , 07:29 AM

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You just haven't read all my other posts. I'm pretty strange for these parts!

Here's my witness and evangelization to you: Keep an open mind (I do), there might be more out there than you think (I'm 100% sure there is). Treat folks as well as you can (I try).

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