I was discussing scripture and the different ways God speaks to us through his word. You have no answer.
No, I am just not answering to theoreticals not based on Scripture. Where is the age of accountability on Scripture.
Did they know they weren't supposed to eat the fruit or didn't they?
Did they definitively know good or evil? The Scripture does not say that. In fact Gen 3:4-5 says the serpent said, "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
So, they were not like God knowing good and evil yet, until eating of the apple.
So, they committed evil, but not knowing what they have have done in a profound way.
Paul was writing to Jews and Synagogue taught Gentiles, we need to understand the context he was writing in, to understand what he was saying properly, and not assume he was writing to 21st century Christians who have been taught the fifth century tradition of Original Sin.
You are aware that he taught against a lot of then contemporary Jewish teachings, right? Furthermore, there are difficulties understanding then contemporary jewish teachings as they are not inspired by the Holy Spirit and often contradicted one another.
There was no sin in the world before the first sin. But Paul only says sin entered the world through one man. He doesn't say sin spread through the world through him.
No, Romans 5:12 in exact words, but using a parallelism debunks that:
through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned
I am not trained in logic, but here's an illustration of the above:
A then B therefore B' then A'
Paul is obviously employing logic. One man made sin, sin causes death, death
spreads to all men, because all men sinned.
Well, where did death spread ("dieÑrxomai", not a mistranslation, the term literally means to travel from one area to another) from? Obviously, "through the one man" in which "sin entered the world."
In my mind, being that this is so abundantly clear in Romans 5:12 I ask that you seriously reread the Scripture here, taking away your own preconceived notions of fairness. Just read what it says and don't read into more than what it says. Then respond, please.
I don't want to go off on tangents. We have already seen that your chronology of when Adam and Eve knew good and evil is off, by evidence in Scripture. If you doubt that through Adam all were made sinners, then we need to read Romans 5:12 and perhaps the paragraph as a whole for context, and come up with a reasonable interpretation of what it plainly says without extrapolating all this other stuff that is not there.