(June 26, 2015 at 2:37 am)robvalue Wrote: So... Eve sinned because she ate the fruit which would give her previously unknown information about what a sin actually is?
This all reminds me of the old "key locked in the safe" idea but somehow even more stupid, turned inside out and used to justify everything bad ever.
No, rob. Eve disobeyed God knowingly. You can argue about whether she had full knowledge of what "sin" was, but it doesn't change the fact that she was clear on God's command about eating the fruit:
Genesis 3:1-2
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
So, Eve knew God's command, and she disobeyed Him, anyway.
