Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach

[Randy Carson]

If it is your opinion that Eve had NO knowledge of good or evil whatsoever, then why does the next few verses say:

Genesis 3:6
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.

Eve knew:

1. the tree was "GOOD for food"
2. GOOD to look at ("pleasing to the eye")
3. GOOD for gaining knowledge ("desirable for gaining wisdom").

So basically you're going to equivocate between good in the qualitative sense ("this tree excels at the quality of gaining knowledge") and good in the moral sense ("it is good to obey god") like a fuckin' idiot, and expect that the rest of us won't notice?

No, Equislax, in what is quite possibly my last response to you, I'm going to point out that in response to a few idiots who keep trying to say that Eve had NO knowledge of "good" whatsoever prior to eating the apple in a blatant attempt to place ALL the blame for her disobedience on God, I'm saying that Eve was intelligent enough and endowed with sufficient understanding of right and wrong to know that disobeying God was a VERY BAD THING.

Stop and think for just once, okay? Are you really going to insist that God gave Adam and Eve a command that they could not obey?



If God gave the command, it was because He knew that they DID have the capacity to obey; they simply chose not to. As the Word of God says:

1 Corinthians 10:13
13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.