It took the divine person Jesus Christ to take my deserved place on the cross to satisfy perfect justice, yet one profound outcome of this event provided absolute impunity for me to be able to enter into a research program into the knowledge of good and evil.
In this God-crafted research program it is a certainty that I will make many unintentional mistakes.
But in redemptive salvation by grace through faith, my mistakes become lessons-learned rather than condemning sins (Mt. 5:6).
This is one reason why God did not show-up in the Garden of Eden to dispute the character assassination put forward by the spiritual apparition of Satan in the holographic form of a beautiful talking serpent, because it is difficult to debate issues this deeply profound with an unprincipled liar, based upon competing words alone.
It takes a well-crafted counter-argument building precept-upon-precept through real-life events, evidenced through God-composed journey of faith life-scripts patterned for us in the biblical narrative stories of faith, that are designed to lovingly displace our ways with God’s higher ways.
Only God could craft such research programs.
The galactic irony here is that it is modern science that illuminates this component of a basic, field research program into the knowledge of good and evil contained within redemptive salvation by grace through faith in Christ.
If the modern Scientific Revolution is anything, it is the pursuit of ever more perfect knowledge about the natural world being conducted by imperfect, non-divine humans.
This is exactly what a God-composed journey of faith life-script similarly accomplishes in the realm of the broad array of moral concepts as exemplified in the biblical narrative stories of faith.
Another take-away here is that current science will disappear as we now know it, the universe being temporal (Mk. 13:31; 2 Pet. 3:10).
But a genuine knowledge of good and evil acquired through the first-hand experience of living within a God-composed journey of faith life-script lasts an eternity.
This establishes an eternal priority ranking upon what is important in life.
I think it takes a grasp of what is involved in a modern science research program today to now see the comparative quality of God-composed journeys of faith life-scripts in which God displaces our ways and thoughts with His higher ways and thoughts (Isa. 55:8-9).
This is like a PhD professor guiding a graduate student through their thesis research program (Jn. 16:13).
The God of the Bible is writing research programs and offering research grants in the form of redemptive salvation by grace through faith in Christ, so that believers can obtain a genuine knowledge of good and evil through the first-hand field research of personal experience.
Our mistakes and shortcomings are factored-in as part of the lessons-learned curriculum.
The brilliance of this is that it validates from an unexpected direction the claim by Jesus that He is the way, the truth, and the life to the exclusion of all other gods, religions, and philosophies.
It establishes that Jesus Christ is the real college professor in this area of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil.
Jesus said “no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (Jn. 14:6).
Only one God can be God.
God invented the concept of redemptive salvation by grace through faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which allows me to venture-out into a risk-filled journey of faith, with the real-world and rational understanding that I am certain to make many honest and unintentional mistakes (Mt.5:6).
Because salvation is by grace through faith, it is not dependent upon amassing a backlog of good-works to merit salvation.
Because faith and trust in the God of the Bible is based upon a relationship, it can be started at any time in our lives.
There is always hope because the door is always open to invite God into our hearts, minds, and lives.
This is one of the lessons from the story of the thief on the cross alongside Jesus (Lk. 23:39-43).
The Cross in the Christian Life 