" Was sin necessary for knowledge?"
Within the world of the tale, didn't god command the created humans not to do a particular thing? Not to eat fruits from a particular tree? The tree of knowledge...
The creation only had to obey, like good little troopers.
But a saboteur infiltrated the creation and persuaded the poor human soldiers to go against the original order from the general(?) president(?), king(?)...
One must wonder, from where in creation did the saboteur crawl out of? In those 6 days of creating stuff, there is nothing mentioned of creating this particular creature, is there?
How does the narrative end up having it in there, then? Why don't we see more people questioning this detail of the story?
Anyway, had God wanted to do things differently, by giving knowledge to mankind without them having to go through a disobedience of his command, then the answer to your question is no. Sinning was not necessary.
God should have been fully capable of providing knowledge to its creation.... heck, he did encase it in a fruit, after all.
Within the world of the tale, didn't god command the created humans not to do a particular thing? Not to eat fruits from a particular tree? The tree of knowledge...
The creation only had to obey, like good little troopers.
But a saboteur infiltrated the creation and persuaded the poor human soldiers to go against the original order from the general(?) president(?), king(?)...
One must wonder, from where in creation did the saboteur crawl out of? In those 6 days of creating stuff, there is nothing mentioned of creating this particular creature, is there?
How does the narrative end up having it in there, then? Why don't we see more people questioning this detail of the story?
Anyway, had God wanted to do things differently, by giving knowledge to mankind without them having to go through a disobedience of his command, then the answer to your question is no. Sinning was not necessary.
God should have been fully capable of providing knowledge to its creation.... heck, he did encase it in a fruit, after all.
