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Whether she added it on her own, or Adam told it to her this way, one of them added to God's Word.
God told Adam what the law was.Or no one added to anything and this is what God told to Eve, a conversation not recorded but only repeated by Eve at a later time. Never does God charge with adding to his commands regarding the tree and it's fruit.
I don't believe God would have told Eve something different from what He told Adam.
How did your statement of an unrecorded conversation have more weight than what I said?That's fine but personal belief is not evidence.
How did your statement of an unrecorded conversation have more weight than what I said?
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Satan made Eve doubt God's word, saying she wouldn't die if she ate.Like it matters??! You can't eat it without touching it!
I've always been taught that 3. is that you do it of your own free will. In other words, someone isn't holding a shotgun to your head making you sin.In Christian theology sin has three requirements:
1. it must be an evil --- I think we can agree that disobeying God is an evil
2. it must be known to be an evil --- without having eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve were incapable of sin --- of making a mistake? certainly!
3. it is done anyhow in the full knowledge that it is an evil
If there was an original sin it must have been something after this event. I regard this story as a "coming of age story" in which humanity graduates from a totally naïve and childish status into mature self reflective adulthood able to make free moral and ethical decisions.
Then, since there is no record in the Bible of Adam and Eve having children before the fall, they must have eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil on a Tuesday (two sins for the price of one).When God says "do" or "don't do" there is law.
There were 2 laws at that time: Be fruitful and multiply and do not eat from the tree of the knowlege of good and evil.
I've always been taught that 3. is that you do it of your own free will. In other words, someone isn't holding a shotgun to your head making you sin.
Then, since there is no record in the Bible of Adam and Eve having children before the fall, they must have eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil on a Tuesday (two sins for the price of one).
My own personal interpretation is that "knowing about good and evil" refers to our passing judgment on people. We are advised to resist doing that, though sometimes, such as in a court of law, I don't see how it can be avoided.Genesis 3:22 And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever-
Hello,
So my question might sound a bit dumb but here it is : Since Adam and Eve didn't know about good and evil before eating from the tree of knowledge, does that mean they used to sin without realizing it ?
Thank you for the response.
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