Let's TALK about Paul...

[Balthazzar]

Truth cannot be found via knowledge of good and evil or law. Knowledge of good and evil is a binary form of knowledge, where the good and evil a set. The good implies an evil, and the evil implies a good. They work as a set, and can, at best, give you half truths or relative truth.

I can say a good thing to have is love, and you can say the evil thing to have is hate. Law and knowledge of good and evil, is similar to a magnetic, with a North and South Pole. Physics has never found a monopole, or just a North or just a South Pole all by itself. Knowledge of good and evil is the same way. But defining any new good; must love Kamala Harris, this automatically implies an evil; must hate Trump. The set goes together, with the evil more illusionary, making the composite, less than honest and truthful with oneself.

Since good and evil go together, if you lived in dark times, full of evil and suffering, the light of good will also shine, within the mind, since the opposite good, is also implied by the darkness; solutions. This helps to advance culture.



The opposite is also true, if all was good, then the discontent of evil will also appear to mess it up. Trump had a good economy in 2018, and there was a sense of positive. But since good and evil are a set, fake news could not help but try to rain on the parade. The truth gets confused. The political dividing line is set up as the binary of good versus evil from the POV of either side.

Jesus and Paul understood the binary nature of good and evil. Satan is classically referred to as the Binarius; forked tongue, or the one that becomes two; truth becomes good and evil. The best you can get with law and knowledge of good and evil, is half or relative truth.

The tree of life and truth is more like nature and instinct. The natural animal is true it is impulses, without any value judgement of good and evil. There is only the truth, that it follows, which allows it to live and thrive. Good and evil is a human flaw. God never wanted law and good and evil and tabooed that for Adam and Eve. It is strange how people will still defend what God never endorsed. Paul and Jesus were going for a system restore point before the fall, not after the fall and just after the Mosaic Law. The latter was an update but still binary.

So when Paul says he became all things to all men, he was demonstrating following his instincts; inner voice of the spirit of truth, and not depending on learned knowledge of good and evil customs, so his mind and heart could remain unattached to the binarius and he could see the truth in the family of man; one species with a common humanity.

You make very valid points. The difference is in how we experience a thing, making a value determination as a result, whether something is viewed as good or the opposite of. It's a value determinization. We have a tendency to set this stage for ourselves, apply the broad brush to the whole as if the whole is anything at all like we are. We end up in opposition. Good and evil are feelings. They are defined by how we think or feel about a thing, individually.

The laws imposed upon people are typically for social order, but sometimes laws are based on majority understanding of benefit, thus we end up creating criminals of those who break them whether in ignorance or by act of willful disobedience.

I was alluding to an honest spirit in relation to our mandated laws, and how we can sin in one way, yet still be innocent in the other. Guidance or instruction is given in the scriptures, aimed to help us better navigate. We still fall short and make mistakes, which is how we define sin. This is specifically what it means to sin. To miss the mark. It's an archer's term and adequate for the concept.