[quote='Esquilax' pid='406455' dateline='1361852365']
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? [\quote] maybe I'm missing some thing here because for me the obvious answer is because God told them not to eat of that tree.
[Quote]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 nothave 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.[/quote] you misunderstand what the "metric" of the knowledge of good and evil means. To be without sin does not mean one is automatically naive or unaware of complex emotional thought. The angels are without sin, and yet are fully aware of all the wickedness and evil in this world.
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? [\quote] maybe I'm missing some thing here because for me the obvious answer is because God told them not to eat of that tree.
[Quote]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 nothave 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.[/quote] you misunderstand what the "metric" of the knowledge of good and evil means. To be without sin does not mean one is automatically naive or unaware of complex emotional thought. The angels are without sin, and yet are fully aware of all the wickedness and evil in this world.
