I know that you specifically had some kind of response to why God reveals himself to some people and hides himself to others?

Yeah, my name's Tara. Basically, it's a little bit complicated, but it's related to the problem of evil.

So I want to go into that a little bit.

Basically, if we go back to the Garden of Eden, you know,

you had, Satan had convinced Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Well, and I will let you get through this, just for clarity.

We have no reason to believe that happened, and Genesis doesn't say it was Satan.

It says it was a serpent. It's only later revisions that apply that to Satan.

But sure, we'll go with the mythology.

Okay, so basically in Genesis 216 and 17, God said that the punishment from eating from the tree was basically death, and Satan said,

you will certainly not die for God knows that in the day that you eat from it, your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and bed.

So basically, Satan there was accusing God of withholding something that was good from his creation.

It seems that the serpent was the one telling the truth there, don't you think?

Because they didn't die that day.

Well, see, this is what I'm going to get into.

Because the Bible admits that when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, that those eyes were opened.

Yeah, which affirmed what the serpent said.

Well, so this begs the question.

Does this imply that the tree had magical powers?

And I would say no.

The tree doesn't have magical powers.

It was actually symbolic.

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