8 BILLION ROBOTS. Pt. 1

1Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

² The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, ³ but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, (the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

⁴ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. ⁵ “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. (Genesis 3:1-6)

While over the course of several years I have written numerous books, and managed to self-publish one of the bunch this year, nothing I have done comes up to a literary accomplishment which I recently completed in less than a month.

I have always enjoyed reading “The Phillips Paraphrase of the New Testament,” and as a result, I decided to do one of my own. All this to say that during my writing, and over the course of the past several weeks, I have been reminded of several recurring spiritual concepts.

And one of these recurring principles is that of (drum roll) free will.

The first scriptural inference to this concept may be found in the first of sixty-seven books in the Christian Bible, the Book of Genesis, and replicated throughout the Old and New Testaments.

(to be continued)

by William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from (Mc)Donald's Daily Diary. Pt. 72. Copyright Pending.

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