(July 23, 2014 at 2:47 pm)alpha male Wrote: 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.
I love this statement. It's "silly" to say that Adam and Eve didn't have intellectual knowledge of good and evil, but it's not silly to assert that they gained comprehensive experiential knowledge of it from eating a piece of fruit at the behest of a talking snake.
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