(April 3, 2013 at 6:52 pm)Rhythm Wrote: One of the better readings would suggest that the sinning - in some sinful thing -is not in the act, but in the knowledge of the act. The apple, and the tree, and the knowledge imparted was knowledge of the law, before which the authors imagined a world in which humans were running around blissfully in a garden completely ignorant of law, of good and evil - therefore not culpable. Sinning isn't so much doing, as it is knowing.
VERY interesting concept!
So evil is only evil if you KNOW it is evil. Otherwise, it is just another act with NO MORALITY ATTACHED TO IT!!
So actions, by themselves, are not morally wrong. It is the knowledge of those actions that makes them wrong.
Therefore, we can infer from that concept that there is no objective morality. All morality is SUBJECT to knowledge of evil.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Einstein