(February 26, 2013 at 12:19 am)Esquilax Wrote: I'd go further than that, and say that original sin isn't, and could not have been a sin at all. If Adam and Eve had only gained a concept of good and evil after they had eaten the fruit, then how could they have known that disobeying god was an evil act? How could they even have had a concept of things like betrayal, disobedience or lies, given that all they had ever known was perfect goodness? Not only did they not have a metric by which to measure morality, according to Genesis they didn't even have a knowledge that there was such a thing as good and evil, before committing the first "evil" act.True. God created humans without intellect and then punished them for acting like it.
Beyond that, I love how when they gain knowledge of things that are evil their first instinct is to cover up in order to be good, yet god's all like "fuck y'all!" anyway.
Sorry, I don't mean to derail the thread, it's just that that always bothered me.
RE: The OP question, here's a thought: Isaiah 45:7 pretty much informs that god is sin.