We read in the Bible that God instructed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden not to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  This is obviously a metaphor, but think about the idea.  What God was saying was, "I don't want you to walk in the authority of having to judge between good and evil."  Later, in the New Testament, Jesus constantly admonishes us not to "judge lest we be judged" ourselves.  Why? I believe that it is because God knows that as humans, our judgment is flawed.  We do not see as He sees yet, and therefore, we cannot judge as He judges.

How do we get back to God's original intention for man?  We must go back and do what we were told to do in the Garden.  We must eat only from the Tree of Life.  What is the difference between these two trees?  From the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil we get labels, denominations, separation, arguments, judgment.  It represents this physical world with all its opposites: good and evil; light and darkness.  The Tree of life, on the other hand, represents the spiritual realm where duality does not exist.  Here we find only the way of love and mercy and the interconnectedness of all forms of God's creation.

In Christian churches we are fond of the saying "God is good - all the time."  Let us change that to "God is All - all the time."  Both the light and the darkness have their purposes and when we know this, we can truly believe that God is in control and everything - EVERYTHING - is working for our good.