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Only God is capable of distinguishing between good and evil

One happened upon a verse which had hitherto not really obtruded upon one's notice while rereading Ecclesiastes:  Ecclesiastes 9:1 - King James Version (KJV) <1> For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. "No man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them". Humans are not capable of the enormously-complex cost-benefit analysis of whether a given behavior is good or evil; neither do they ever assemble enough information to perform that cost-benefit analysis upon. Only the Holy and Omniscient One, the Divine Human, can determine whether a given behavior is good or evil. Only a God could possibly do so. That is the reason why the Serpent, who represents human pride in self-intelligence and sensory perception, says to Adam and Eve that they will "become as gods" if they eat of the fruit o...