Well, for starters, it makes the tree of knowledge of good and evil a redundant narrative prop..but, recall..it's already one layer deep into something problematic for the narrative. That in order to sin, one must first have moral knowledge. The entrence of sin into this world cannot then be laid at the feet of adam (or at the prop of the tree) but at the entity which created adam with such knowledge.
Ultimately..it's an issue of the editors competency or the compromises they made in trying to weave together what we believe to be a composite narrative. Two or more versions of the same story which stressed different things, all of which deemed to be important - but with significant narrative discontinuity between them. Entirely common to this sort of myth.
Unfortunately, this proceeds through each problematic step and leads to ad hoc rationalizations not made explicit in the narrative (such as your suggestion that adam learned of sin by observing eve).
Ultimately..it's an issue of the editors competency or the compromises they made in trying to weave together what we believe to be a composite narrative. Two or more versions of the same story which stressed different things, all of which deemed to be important - but with significant narrative discontinuity between them. Entirely common to this sort of myth.
Unfortunately, this proceeds through each problematic step and leads to ad hoc rationalizations not made explicit in the narrative (such as your suggestion that adam learned of sin by observing eve).
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