(July 28, 2014 at 3:54 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: She's saying she couldn't understand death prior to death actually existing. No one could. Especially since the popular Christian interpretation is that what God REALLY meant was some kind intangible spiritual death, since the two did NOT die that day but lived for centuries after, according to the story. How were they supposed to understand that what God actually meant was that 'on the day therof of which you eat, I'm going to hand out some punishments, and then after you live some centuries longer, your biological functions will cease as well'.
I am not following this at all, why exactly could they not understand what death was prior to anyone dying? None of us has experienced it and we all seem to understand it just fine. I am also missing the relevance of this anyways, they should not have eaten the fruit because God told them not to, end of story. God telling us not to do any action-regardless of what it is-is enough to make it wrong to do that action.
Quote: And you claim that A&E could distinguish right from wrong before eating the fruit. How do you reconcile that with the fact that they were unaware of their nakedness until they ate it?
They were aware of it but not ashamed of it. How does that mean they did not know right from wrong prior to eating the fruit? If they did not know right from wrong then the serpent would not have had to persuade Eve as he did, he could have simply told her she should eat the fruit. Rather he had to question what God had said because she clearly knew that she ought to not disobey God. The rest of Genesis seems to indicate that eating the fruit seemed to cloud their moral judgment if anything.
