I'm going to disagree with you. I don't think that they [Adam and Eve] didn't know right from wrong, but rather they didn't know good from evil.
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Dammit, this is why I try not to think too hard about these things. It just ends up scaring me.
This would imply that, to a fundie, just because something is evil does not mean it is wrong. Ergo, they can be free to commit evil acts in the knowledge that what they do is right.
Suddenly, a lot of horrible actions make sense...
I think it's a matter of degree.
Compare taking somebody's seat on a train with murder - one is wrong, while one is both wrong and evil.
...the easiest way to read that for sense is to assume that 'good' and 'evil' represent allegiances, while 'right' and 'wrong' represent the moral character of acts.
Kinda silly, since it means they skipped over basic moral ideation to something subtler; then by eating the apple became able to understand that God was good and Satan was evil. And that was threatening to God.
That mechanism only follows the story if the truth of the matter was that God was evil. Heh.
When they ate of the fruit they knew they were naked and became ashamed.
Think on that a minute. For aggie's interpretation to be correct, nakedness would have to be not just wrong but actually evil. Yet that was how God supposedly made them.
And if something as trivial as nakedness is evil rather than wrong, then what justification is there for disobedience to God being simply wrong rather than evil? Particularly given God's reaction to it as described in the bible?
And if such disobedience is evil, and Adam and Eve did not know it, then the concept of them justly being held culpable for their disobedient act goes right out of the window.
Just more stupid word play to make out that God is good and just and kind and loving when stories like the garden of Eden show him quite clearly to be anything but.
If God did not want Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge, why did he create it to bear fruit? As a myth this makes sense because the story demands that the two humans taste the forbidden fruit, but to take it literally is to tacitly admit that God planned the fall, even caused the fall, then spitefully punished the victims of his machinations.
Obviously they did not get good moral instruction from the only one in existence who could have taught them.
Now, who would that be again?
"I'm going to disagree with you. I don't think"
Well, far be it from me to disagree with you, then. [/smartarse]
"[Adam and Eve] didn't know right from wrong, but rather they didn't know good from evil."
Any seconders for my nominating this quote for the 'Six of One, Half-a-dozen of the Other' Award?
Be seeing you. [/"The Prisoner"]
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