The capacity to judge what is good or bad for oneself and therefore learn through self-reflection.
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knowledge of good and evil
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...This is a tree with the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and everyone can only look at it longingly, and the..."
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"So God's afraid will become like God. Therefore to protect the tree of life he has to banish us from the Garden. Okay? Yeah?..."
"...now infinite. Okay? Does that make sense? That's what knowledge of good and evil is. The ability to differentiate for yourself what is good..."
"...This is a tree with the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and everyone can only look at it longingly, and the..."
"...eve ate the apple from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and prior to that adam and eve didn't have knowledge..."
"...let us eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil."
"...the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil so this is Garden Paradise called Eden and man was..."
"...for themselves uh but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat from the day that you eat..."
"...of from the tree knowledge from the tree of knowledge of good and evil then yeah some of them are gonna make mistakes okay..."
"...you do do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil just don't do that and so of course what do..."
"...serpent says, because I eat that fruit from the knowledge of good and evil. It gives you power, okay? So the serpent now wants..."
"...if Adam and Eve ate that fruit from the knowledge of good and evil, and then they eat also a fruit from the tree..."
"...rule is do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil because it's poisonous. And of course Adam and Eve had..."
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