Wright: the fall and idolatry

re. GEN.3:22

Not that humans have now become gods but they have chosen to act as though they were - defining and deciding for themselves what they will regard as good and evil.  Therein lies the root of all other forms of idolatry:  we deify our own capacities, and thereby make gods of ourselves and our choices and all their implications.  God then shrinks in horror from the prospect of human immortality and eternal life in such a fallen state and prevents access to the tree of life.  God has a better way to bring humanity, redeemed and cleansed, to eternal life.

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