Was sin necessary for knowledge?

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Exactly, since I posit a requirement of knowledge that we can be reasonably sure the pups and babes do not possess, then their moral status and considerations of desert will invariably arrive at different conclusions in each of their cases.  OTOH, sin as breach of fealty leaves nothing about the act, itself..to be sinful in the first place.  Two people could do the same thing, and if a god had only told one of them not to do it, it would be sinful for the one..but not the other - regardless of either's level of knowledge or if they were..in point of fact..the same person in two separate instances of the same act.

I agree that knowledge would be required TO sin. Knowledge or intent with action. I am positing that sin itself is defined as disobedience to God. I believe I see where you are headed with that OTOH. If God told one person not to kill Timmy but told another to kill Timmy that it wouldn’t be sinful. If both people are following God’s will then neither one has sinned, IMO. Personal morality is subjective. I don’t define sin as subjective because I believe in an objective moral authority.