RE: Was sin necessary for knowledge?
November 17, 2018 at 11:40 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2018 at 11:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's nothing objective in that description of moral authority. I say this to you as a moral realist, myself.
OFC, you're free to posit any definition for sin that you like. I only note that the definition you've chosen is both problematic for and specific to a christian eschatology not present in the narrative of the fall or in the story of cain and able. Nowhere, for example..had god told cain not to kill his brother. The narrator assumes as a matter of fact that any listener would recognize the evil of the act, is all. In the fall they're given such an order, but there is a reason behind it. It's moral status, or it's designation as sin, hangs on what consequences would purportedly befall the protagonists...not the simple fact of it's having been decreed so.
OFC, you're free to posit any definition for sin that you like. I only note that the definition you've chosen is both problematic for and specific to a christian eschatology not present in the narrative of the fall or in the story of cain and able. Nowhere, for example..had god told cain not to kill his brother. The narrator assumes as a matter of fact that any listener would recognize the evil of the act, is all. In the fall they're given such an order, but there is a reason behind it. It's moral status, or it's designation as sin, hangs on what consequences would purportedly befall the protagonists...not the simple fact of it's having been decreed so.
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