mesquite wrote: . . . According to the Genesis story Adam and Eve were destined to fall. There was no way around it. You can pretend to ignore it and invent terms like
the Edenic Rebellion to camouflage it but that does not change the story told in Genesis. Your exegesis of the Eden story has been put to rest numerous times, most recently beginning
here.
Joe, in his stunning example of redherringship, gave his defense to his earlier statement
Quote:. . . A&E would never have encountered a situation that required a moral decision so long as they had no knowledge of good and evil.
His explanation? Adam and Eve, having no moral sense, evaluated God's direction, not in terms of obedience to their creator, but according to their perception that the fruit might be dangerous.
All this sidesteps the issue of what would they have done the first time a simple temptation arose. Having no knowledge of good and bad, how would they have chosen a right course?
Are you telling me that eating of the fruit of the tree was necessary for their 'education', or were Adam and Eve created with a
conscience?