Endure Chapter 4: The Tree
Boundless Life
Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 15 May 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to chapter four of Indoor. |
| 0:01.9 | My name is Ben Greenfield and what you're listening to is an audio version of my book |
| 0:07.4 | Indoor, which you can find at GetEndor.com, all of the resources for this particular reading |
| 0:13.3 | art. |
| 0:14.3 | GetEndor.com, for its last chapter four, chapter four, and each week I'll release to |
| 0:19.3 | you a chapter from this book, which you can also get, again, at GetEndor.com. |
| 0:25.4 | Chapter four, the tree. |
| 0:27.2 | I've always wondered about the story of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, |
| 0:30.7 | and more specifically the nature of that tree itself. |
| 0:33.5 | Just in case you're not familiar with this tree, a quick explanation may enlighten you |
| 0:36.8 | as to why I'm quite curious about it. |
| 0:39.3 | The first time I encountered this tree was when I was a boy reading the book of Genesis |
| 0:43.5 | in the Bible in chapters two and three, and the story of the tree goes like this, pretty |
| 0:48.4 | much verbatim. |
| 0:50.0 | This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that |
| 0:52.6 | the Lord God made them. |
| 0:53.8 | Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth nor at any plant of the field |
| 0:57.1 | sprouted. |
| 0:58.1 | For the Lord God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate |
| 1:02.0 | the ground, but springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the |
| 1:05.6 | ground. |
| 1:06.8 | Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life |
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