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Here's the meta for you.
The God represented in Christ was here to show us God's Character. And God's character is unchanging. We don't worship a name, we essentially worship character traits.
When I say, "God is truth." I'm not speaking in metaphor. I mean it literally. Absolutely no lie can be found in God because if lied even the tiniest bit just once. He is no longer worthy of worship. Sure, he may be strong and rule with an iron fist, but strength doesn't make you worthy of worship and can ultimately only end with no worshippers since eventually everyone would just face destruction than literally worship a liar.
Now God is also Love, perfect love. And he made us to love us. He wants us with him but only if we want to be with him. So he created this big elaborate stage and gave us a test he knew we would fail, and in failing give both us, and him what we want.
He created us as animals, in his image in that we had authority over everything we saw, but ultimately still immoral animals. We where essentially pampered house cats with the bloodlust. Free to roam as we pleased.
But that's not what God wanted nor what we wanted since that's not what he made us for.
Now we eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge everyday. Learning knew things and discovering uses, both good and evil every day without limitations.
We wanted to be better than animals, we wanted to be like God. And Jesus makes it clear striving to be like God is not a sin, he tells us to do it.
So what's the lesson?
Trust God's wisdom. If he says it's bad, it's bad.
Think about it. All he gave us access to was fucking morals and look where we are.
Morals are beyond the comprehension of animals, imagine what insane shit he will give us access to in the eternal life once we learn to trust him is he says, "Don't go down the road. It doesn't lead anywhere good."