Isaiah 5:20 New English Translation (NET Bible)

20 Beware, those who call evil good and good evil,
who turn darkness into light and light into darkness,
who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.

 

Hebrews 5:13-14 New English Translation (NET Bible)

13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

 

 

The knowledge, of good and evil

in this world, seems in itself evil.

 

This knowledge, Oh! My brother

springs up from intellect

that is anchored in the soul

and inflates its purpose.

It deflates, my dear one,

the spirit to a point

that in appointed emptiness

it survives only on the surface.

 

Knowledge of God resides deep within.

It is here where we fall back on.

If it was on the surface

we would just slide into it.

No falling then is needed

when living in the shallow

and the only falling comes

when we’re thrown in the pit.

 

Mankind fell in search of knowledge.

They just wanted to know more.

It opened up the gates of hell

for grief, death, and pain.

Now we know and aren’t we bright?

We’ve come a long, long way.

All the way from God we left

from the drip into a blinding rain.

 

Jan Wienen