(July 19, 2011 at 2:20 am)Kayenneh Wrote: The question about original sin puzzled me exceedingly as a child. I loved to learn (still do), but I could never understand why Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat the fruit of knowledge. Knowledge, that made you understand things, made you wiser, and this was to be forbidden? The god that asks it's followers to be ignorant is truly an asshole, knowledge will never be seen as sin by me.
Who ever taught you about original sin and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil should be ashamed of what they taught and I hope they are not teaching such anymore. God did not create people ignorant nor does He want people to be ignorant of the truth, God did however want everyone to be innocent but Adam and Eve sure messed that up.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
