Why are you (still) a Christian?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If Adam had no knowledge of what is good and what is bad, how could he have known it was bad to disobey God? And if he was immortal prior to eating the fruit, how could he have possibly comprehended the notion of death? Adam and Eve were punished for something they couldn’t possibly have known was wrong. What a horrible story.

What is knowledge? Something gained through experience, instruction or study. Older translations of Genesis 19:5 say the Sodomites wanted to get to know the men that were angels, newer translations say have sex with. Sex is an intimate knowledge. An experience of intimacy. That's why for a long time people thought the tree represented sex. Which of course it didn't because they were to fill the earth. Neither God nor Adam knew - had an intimate experience - with bad. God still hasn't. Of course good and bad are subjective terms, right?

How could Adam have known it was bad to disobey God? Because God told him. Instruction. Now you are Adam and you can get to know the same thing by study. You see?

Don't argue with me for ideology argue with me for knowledge. That's what I'm doing.

How could Adam know what death was. Animals. They weren't created in the image of God and were mortal.

You cannot explain a concept to a person who has neither the comprehension nor the ability to understand it. If a German parent tells his German child in German, ‘Don’t touch that, it’s hot’, there isn’t an issue. If he tells that same child the same thing in Mandarin, the child is likely to get burned. God may as well have been speaking been speaking Martian when he told Adam, ‘Don’t eat that.’

Every single instance in the Bible where one person is said to ‘know’ another, context makes it abundantly clear that ‘know’ means ‘fuck’.

Adam could not possibly have grasp that animals snuffing it was something that applied to him.

You’re not getting any better at this.

Boru