(June 4, 2014 at 11:46 am)Chad32 Wrote: Well obviously she was wrong. Like I said, nothing he said was wrong. I don't know how sure he was that Yahweh would punish them for being enlightened, but knowledge is not a bad thing. Or if you think it's a sex metaphor, natural processes are not a bad thing.Key word is obviously. You're not thinking it through and are missing the cunning and subtlety of the deceit. Satan's temptation gave them a choice:
- disobey God (i.e. do evil), gain knowledge of good and evil, get death
- obey God (do good), gain knowledge of good and evil, no death
If one can know good by doing evil - and that was Satan's claim - then logically one can also no evil by doing good. So, if they had resisted temptation, they would have gained the same knowledge, but without punishment.
