RE: God's injustice towards Adam and Eve
July 23, 2014 at 2:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2014 at 2:53 pm by John V.)
(July 21, 2014 at 1:00 am)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: The pair immediately exhibit this knowledge upon eating the fruit. They are fearful of God and ashamed of their nudity. It is extremely obvious that they could not have understood it was wrong to disobey God until after doing it.That's silly. If they were completely unaware of the concept of right and wrong as you suggest, they would have just eaten the fruit without the serpent's urging. One can have intellectual knowledge of a concept without having experiential knowledge of it.
Quote:As an aside, Adam is depicted as doing nothing to dissuade Eve from taking the fruit, joining her in the 'crime' without argument, and blames Eve for everything when God calls them out on it, therefore demonstrating that he is weak-willed, passive and a total coward. So, why does God make Eve subservient to him, instead of the other way around? He's clearly the less-qualified of the two to be the dominant member of the couple.It's not as if Eve stood up and took the blame. She blamed the serpent, then blamed God for putting the serpent in the garden. Sound familiar?