RE: Was sin necessary for knowledge?
November 16, 2018 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2018 at 7:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Further highlighting the problems with trying to make a determination on the basis of the the narrative of the fall.
On the one hand, we can reduce sin to an arbitrary fealty. On the other, it's difficult to see how the first two humans in a sin free world, babes in paradise... could have been held to any standard of moral culpability for their actions.
There's a third way, ofc. We can posit that the tree and the fruit and the dragon were all expedients used to refer to some urge or compulsion built within us by the creator. Representations of chaotic evil common to ane mythologies, hence the selection of the dragon and the setting of the garden and the focal point of the fruit.
On the one hand, we can reduce sin to an arbitrary fealty. On the other, it's difficult to see how the first two humans in a sin free world, babes in paradise... could have been held to any standard of moral culpability for their actions.
There's a third way, ofc. We can posit that the tree and the fruit and the dragon were all expedients used to refer to some urge or compulsion built within us by the creator. Representations of chaotic evil common to ane mythologies, hence the selection of the dragon and the setting of the garden and the focal point of the fruit.
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