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09-11-2008, 08:06 PM | #31 |
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"Do not take from the tree of knowledge"
...so that you may remain ignorant and thus more easily manipulated. "knowledge is bad" "don't look behind the curtain" :wide: |
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Eve had no reasonable evidence, that if she ate the fruit, that she would become Godlike.
Yet she believed that it was true without justification. Obviously the first sin was religious faith. That is why God hates religious people, because religious faith is evil. |
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Any interpretation presupposes that the story must be true in some sense or at some level. I am aware of no reason to presuppose anything of the sort. |
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Isn't this backwards? Doesn't any observer of human behaviour see the tendencies towards dishonesty, greed, cruelty etc? Stories like this are a mythological attempt to explain human foolishness, like most mythology.
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The Creator was scared of his creation? The Creator made mistakes, He must have been the FIRST sinner. Genesis 6.6 Quote:
Behold, the FIRST sinner, the Creator. |
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If a myth describes human behavior realistically, then we can learn something from its description of human behavior. The fact that a myth uses extraordinary imagery does not imply that its description of human behavior is realistic. The behavior of Adam and Eve in the Genesis myth is not realistic. There is therefore nothing to be learned from it, except about the mindset of the people who created the myth and of people who still believe in it. |
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Does anyone know how Christians who interpret the story literally explain how Eve could sin even though she didn't have knowledge of good and evil? What's the standard line on this?
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