We are familiar with the tree of testing from the story in Genesis 3. Eve saw that though the fruit tree was forbidden to eat from, she saw that it was desirable to the eye, beautiful, sort of like eye candy. The beauty of the tree became the bait by which the serpent drew her attention to it. But the forbidden tree is not the only beautiful “tree” in the biblical stories. Humans are portrayed as trees throughout Scripture. And some of those humans are also beautiful, desirable to the eye. Just as the original tree became a tree of testing, so also there are people who become “people of testing.” Let me explain.

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