The Antithesis in Paradise

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. -- Gen. 2:16 Light and darkness, good and evil, holiness and cor­ruption, righteousness and iniquity, life and death, -- these are, according to the word of God, not to be con­ceived and explained in a dualistic sense and manner. Dualism, in whatever form it may appear, deals with the problem of God's relation to the world and of the origin of evil. And the foundation of all dualistic systems of theology is the...